since LJ will finally let me post i can do a proper post. yay!
so to continue on from
my last update, i was working a couple of days a week at the place where i did my internship. the people were great, the pay was great and the work (proofreading and inputting editing changes) was fulfilling because i could sit down and concentrate on it and get it all done in a day. i did this for five months and the only thing that began to bug me was how i never knew more than a week in advance what i would be doing next, so i had to be free all the time. this was hard when i felt like i was wasting time on my off days, so i would schedule something and then wind up cancelling because i got called in to work. i guess that's what happens when you're a freelancer. i was also filling in my extra time with lots of tutoring and managed to help a bunch of students get high marks -- some even higher than i got for those particular classes!
anyway so i started looking for full-time jobs and that was fruitless for a long time and then BAM, i got a face-to-face interview (my first; i'd only had a few phone interviews up to that point) and then BAM i got a second round interview. then i actually got the job. I GOT THE JOB. i beat over 300 applicants. O_O so i'm now working full-time as an editorial assistant at a children's book publishing house. it's what i wanted, but i don't think i quite realised everything it entailed! there is a tonne of admin stuff to do (updating spreadsheets, sending out post, taking notes at meetings etc.) but there are also cool things like looking over submitted manuscripts and a fair amount of proofreading. the company isn't massive but it isn't small either, so i'm still getting used to everybody's names and all my roles and i am so, so freaking busy haha. because of my position anyone that wants anything to do with a book (whether that's the latest cover or internals/copy/manuscript or a copy of a recently published book) has to come through me... so i get a lot of email about things. XD but i'm really enjoying it. everybody is nice and patient with me and i'm learning heaps. plus, free books! since the company publishes a lot of YA fiction and i have to get to know the titles anyway, i foresee myself borrowing out the catalogue. <3
so that is my main Big News. i now have a Proper Job.
family and friends are fine. my health is good -- i had all my wisdom teeth out a couple of months ago because they were giving me so much fucking pain but now i'm 100% again. lovelife is still non-existent but something might be happening with that soon. the only exciting thing that's happened since March was
the BFL concert.
that's about it, really. oh, and it's my birthday today. :3
miss you guys! y'all need to update more~