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hermionemalfoy

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Feb 15, 2008 21:37

Life is a bit surreal. I am mentoring a straight male RL friend in the ways of fandom by betaing his Harry/Luna fic. No joke, guys. I am all over it with the red pen. Friends do not let friends write badfic.

( RL job and phone stuff )

rl, roommates

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nostrademons February 16 2008, 18:19:45 UTC

Harry/Luna is hot. The epilogue didn't happen.

youngers84 February 16 2008, 20:15:29 UTC

nostrademons, you-are-awesome!

Glad to hear about the comedy that is your apartment. Is it mostly word play gag or slap stick? our apartment is definitely the latter.

lyraladybug February 17 2008, 22:44:50 UTC

Awww, sorry your job is sucky! What kind of stuff would you like to be doing.

hermionemalfoy February 17 2008, 22:51:16 UTC

Weeell, basically I've decided that I have to go back to grad school (which I knew). But now I have a career path! Speech pathology, clinical practice. I don't think I want to go all out with the PhD because, uh, too much time and it makes you appear overqualified (not to mention half of your life goes by before you even think about paying off your loans), but two years of grad school combined with a year of mentoring/interning sounds appealing. So, it also gives my whole sucky job now a purpose--to save $ so I can go to school without needing to work at the same time. I have to wait until the fall to apply, but since I still need to take the GRE and assimilate my recommendations it's probably for the best.

lyraladybug February 19 2008, 04:38:05 UTC

Oooo, speech pathology sounds really interesting. What led you to that?

hermionemalfoy February 19 2008, 04:44:49 UTC

Well, I majored in (1) linguistics and (2) cognitive science. Now, those are both interesting fields, but there really is no real world application for them outside of research and permanent scholastics (and marketing if you take business classes). However, when they're combined with a specialty in communicative disorders, you get speech pathology.

I'm somewhat annoyed that none of my profs mentioned speech path as a career path, but I'm also pretty sure that they really only know of one career path: how to get your PhD and become a professor. It's funny how that works. :P

The thing with speech pathology is that it's a lot like nursing--the jobs are there and they're not going away. Apparently there's a shortage, so that works to my advantage as well. :> (What's kind of sad is that I think nurses make more...but, whatever.) I really just want a job that requires knowledge of what I studied in college.

How's law school? :D

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