okay, so here's my big update post. ready?...

I GOT A JOB!!!Harvard Law School. Editorial Assistant/Managing Editor of the Journal of Risk & Uncertainty. the salary is... more than comfortable. there seem to be amazing benefits, like health and full dental and three weeks' vacation a year plus the week off between christmas and new years, plus ( Read more... )

new years was fun. i left work at 3ish, went to harvard to get my january t-pass, got a bagel for dinner, then headed to Otis house to sell cookies and coffee till 7:30. wonder if i get paid for that. when i got home, i played scrabble with jorn and dann, and then farbs and miles and sarah ee and benjy came over and we played apples to apples ( Read more... )

so, rox's stupid morning (all before 9am ( Read more... )

i'm home. christmas was good. gift highlights included the battlestar galactica original series on dvd (in an attractive collector's edition ceylon head case), the pirate movie on dvd (yum), several sweaters (because my mom's worried about me being warm enough in boston), shamu-shaped bedroom slippers, and... the voltron castle. this is one of ( Read more... )

i haven't talked about Return of the King yet, have i? no, i've been obsessing over my joblessness. let's chat about something fun then, shall we? ( yehy spoilers. )

i want to curl up in ball somewhere and eat chocolate till i puke. i will never find a fucking job. i hate the cold and i hate boston and i hate everything. my room's a mess and i don't care. i didn't get the job at shambhala, and i haven't gotten a call back from HM or the harvard law school job i interviewed at on monday. they were planning ( Read more... )

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So where to start. I'm kind of bumming tonight. My roomies and I just had a "discussion" about money and paying bills and how to split up paying for the groceries, so that was fun. I hate money discussions. The money discussion was sparked by the fact of our heat not currently working, and what I think the temperature should be versus what ( Read more... )

okay. i feel seriously wiped out right now.

the job i mentioned yesterday? (it's req. # 18516 on the harvard job site, if you feel like looking at it.) i kind of had to let them know today if i wanted it. it's a permanent position. i thought a lot about it, and today i explained to laurie that first of all, since this has been a temp ( Read more... )

tonight i need to talk to everyone AND my mom about job things--there's a telecom job here in the info sys department at harvard, where i am right now, that shelley thinks i could put in for and get fairly easily, but i have to decide if i want it. otherwise my job ends next week. thinkthinkthink. houghton mifflin on monday. argh.