The tax gods deemed me fit to receive my return a week after I filed; and, boy, was it right on time. This whole being poor thing has definitely inspired me to pursue both my MFA in Creative Writing so I can teach at the collegiate level, but to also to, well, just write. I don't know why I always get in my own way when it comes to my writing, ( Read more... )

I have decided that March will be the month of livejournaling; I would like to get in the habit of meaningfully blogging, so this space will be a lot busier than it has in quite a while. Nothing much has changed in this nutty life of mine, except I had the realization that not only do I dread going to work, I also dread coming home. I have stayed ( Read more... )

Life continues to be exactly the same, yet I'm in a really good headspace. I'm not crazy about my job, but it is in the field I want to work in, so I'm trying to squeeze every last drop of valuable experience out of the time I'm there (I'm shooting for a year; I reached my six month anniversary this month-so half way there ( Read more... )

You know that moment when you realize you have to change how you do just about everything if you want to live the kind of life you want to live, be the kind of person you want to be? Yeah, I'm at that moment; I've been avoiding it for quite some time, but I'm going to have to change the way I eat, the way I sleep, the way I work, the way I move, ( Read more... )

I just submitted a short story for possible publication to an online sci-fi, fantasy, and horror literary journal. And so my quest to become a professional author begins.

Happy New Year! I do not believe in making resolutions because I don't need the guilt for when I inevitably fail to do anything I resolved to do, but I can't seem to fight the social conditioning of believing that the first of the year is the time for new beginnings, so I'll make a promise to myself that I will try harder to stay connected to ( Read more... )

I don't think I will ever be happy with a job until I become a paid, professional writer. I wish I could just Google how to become a successful writer like I can Google just about everything else. This post comes courtesy of the new job I've just obtained but will hate by the third month if not sooner.

What I've Just Read

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. This is the first novel I've read by Adichie, and, wow, it won't be the last. Sprawling, emotional without being melodramatic, it got me inside of the Nigerian culture in a way I never imagined I would be and its lead character, Ifemelu, is a complicated woman, and I love complicated ( Read more... )

I am still conducting a job search; for a month and a half I only targeted jobs in Student Services, the field I would like to break into, but after FOUR interviews and no job offers, I have decided to expand the search to the fields of recruiting/staffing and, that old standby, customer service. Yes, customer service, the field I desperately ( Read more... )

Ugh, I've just started the job search and I'm already ready to be done with this ish. How do people do this for months on end? Please, Universe, please, send a viable job in the field I want to be in my way. Please. Also, a date with Scott Caan wouldn't go amiss, either. Thank you.