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So, time for a real update! What's new with the M-dawg? Ugh, never call me that. Well, I re-interviewed and tested and evaluated at AppleOne today, and it looks like I'll be getting a temp job at City (with Hugh!) doing data entry for $10.50 an hour. My highest paying legitimate job ever! :D I'm hoping for about 30 hours a week. It's going to be awesome to have an income again- I haven't had that since last Spring, and before that... I don't remember. I've been subsisting off of charity (parents) and inheritance, and I've been doing okay, so having money coming in is going to ROCK. Savings (vacations, adventures, investments for future business plans) and spending money! Yeehaw! Also, I'm still trying to pick up some pet-sitting jobs for extra income. I'd like to honestly start my own business, but until that's feasible I'm going to work on building a good reputation and a solid client base. (Tell your friends and family! :D)
What else?
I've been back in the States for almost 2 weeks now- I'm still adjusting. I can't help it- a part of me wanted to be able to just slide back into life in my home town (mostly because I didn't want to be a "well traveled snob" who's forgotten her roots), while a part of me rallied against that idea with every fiber of my being, and another part of me was super excited to see how "the view from here" had changed. Well, let me tell you, it has changed. I have changed, as i believe I've stated before in this journal. And I'm still discovering all the ways in which those changes have occurred. Erie County is very ugly to me now, from an aesthetic point of view. The City of Buffalo is still nice, I think, or at least much of the architecture, and many of the residential neighborhoods. It still has a lot of potential. I just don't feel as loyal to it as I did before I left- to that potential, anyway. I have a feeling I'll be leaving Buffalo in the next few years, though. Not abandoning life here, just living elsewhere for a while.
I need/want to meet new people, too. One of the major things I learned this past year is that I am multifaceted, and it's okay. I've always been the type to make friends fairly easily, despite a few (8) years of adolescence when Awkward was the name of the game; I've always have vastly different friend groups; I've always managed to still be myself in any situation. I love my friends here, but I feel there's a part of me that's not being exercised as well as it needs to be right now. I feel much more alive now than ever before... I'm not saying it's because of Oxford, though yes, directly even, it is, but indirectly, and yet more importantly, it's still because of The Artist's Way and the sharp turn I took in my life when I did that 12 week process four years ago. I've become exponentially more alive than the person I was back then. (Especially since a celebrated removal of a certain poisonous relationship ;p) At the same time, I'm not saying that my friends here aren't alive. I'm just saying that there are facets of me that are feeling deprived, and my instincts tell me to get out onto the social scene and meet people. New people are exciting.
Also, I'm currently working on two writing projects: Midnight Estates, my NaNo novel from 2008, and The Poppet and the Lune (bookmark it! tell your friends to read it! Tell your enemies to read it! Tell people you have neutral feelings for to read it!), my fairy tale web serial. I'm mostly working on Midnight Estates because I'm doing an experiment with this whole Law of Attraction thing. One of the keys to Allowing things is to be able to easily experience not having them as well. The ideal state is a state of detachment, to be happy either way despite "unfulfilled" desires. I don't really care about Midnight Estates. It was fun to write, and there are some parts of it I'm really proud of, but on the whole I know it's a piece of fluff. So, given that I already understand you don't actually have to have a well written work or even a decent story to get published, and given that I don't really care if the world ever reads this novel (though I want very much to get published still!) I'm going to see if I can toss this one out to the Universe and get some real results. I've got all the ingredients. Let's see what comes out of the oven ;)
BUT, I was talking with my mother about The Poppet and the Lune yesterday, and I got all excited for it again. My plan is, once I've finished writing it, to leave it up for a little while, but eventually take it down from wordpress, spruce it up, and submit it as a middle-grade fiction chapbook. I'd like to see it illustrated, too. Originally I was thinking etchings, like classic fairy tale books often have, but I really love this guy's work. Her stuff is pretty awesome too. At least it opens my eyes to the unique possibilities. Who knows. But, unless I'm thinking collaboratively, I'm pretty sure publishers decide on the illustrators they use. I don't know, I have a really good feeling about this one. It might sound silly, and awfully self-assured, but I have this image of The Poppet and the Lune not only being pretty popular with the kids, but also becoming some kind of cult classic among adults. It's a nice goal to have, anyway ;)
Anything else? Umm... since i can't do the choreography classes at Sol Vibes because of my (stupid) night class, I'm going to do beginner belly dance again on Saturday mornings. I need to master the basics first, anyway. I don't know if I plan on ever really performing, but I'd like to at least get comfortable with improvisational dance so I can use it in ritual and stuff. I find when I'm in class and I'm dancing just because I love dancing, I do well and I have tons of fun. The second I start thinking about what anyone else might think I mess up. Or maybe I don't, but I certainly don't have as much fun.
Tomorrow, I'm planning on taking myself on an Artist Date. It involves constructively smashing things ;) Pictures to follow...
And now, an extra picture outside of the 365 thing, just because I look so evil:
Heeeeee ;D
So, time for a real update! What's new with the M-dawg? Ugh, never call me that. Well, I re-interviewed and tested and evaluated at AppleOne today, and it looks like I'll be getting a temp job at City (with Hugh!) doing data entry for $10.50 an hour. My highest paying legitimate job ever! :D I'm hoping for about 30 hours a week. It's going to be awesome to have an income again- I haven't had that since last Spring, and before that... I don't remember. I've been subsisting off of charity (parents) and inheritance, and I've been doing okay, so having money coming in is going to ROCK. Savings (vacations, adventures, investments for future business plans) and spending money! Yeehaw! Also, I'm still trying to pick up some pet-sitting jobs for extra income. I'd like to honestly start my own business, but until that's feasible I'm going to work on building a good reputation and a solid client base. (Tell your friends and family! :D)
What else?
I've been back in the States for almost 2 weeks now- I'm still adjusting. I can't help it- a part of me wanted to be able to just slide back into life in my home town (mostly because I didn't want to be a "well traveled snob" who's forgotten her roots), while a part of me rallied against that idea with every fiber of my being, and another part of me was super excited to see how "the view from here" had changed. Well, let me tell you, it has changed. I have changed, as i believe I've stated before in this journal. And I'm still discovering all the ways in which those changes have occurred. Erie County is very ugly to me now, from an aesthetic point of view. The City of Buffalo is still nice, I think, or at least much of the architecture, and many of the residential neighborhoods. It still has a lot of potential. I just don't feel as loyal to it as I did before I left- to that potential, anyway. I have a feeling I'll be leaving Buffalo in the next few years, though. Not abandoning life here, just living elsewhere for a while.
I need/want to meet new people, too. One of the major things I learned this past year is that I am multifaceted, and it's okay. I've always been the type to make friends fairly easily, despite a few (8) years of adolescence when Awkward was the name of the game; I've always have vastly different friend groups; I've always managed to still be myself in any situation. I love my friends here, but I feel there's a part of me that's not being exercised as well as it needs to be right now. I feel much more alive now than ever before... I'm not saying it's because of Oxford, though yes, directly even, it is, but indirectly, and yet more importantly, it's still because of The Artist's Way and the sharp turn I took in my life when I did that 12 week process four years ago. I've become exponentially more alive than the person I was back then. (Especially since a celebrated removal of a certain poisonous relationship ;p) At the same time, I'm not saying that my friends here aren't alive. I'm just saying that there are facets of me that are feeling deprived, and my instincts tell me to get out onto the social scene and meet people. New people are exciting.
Also, I'm currently working on two writing projects: Midnight Estates, my NaNo novel from 2008, and The Poppet and the Lune (bookmark it! tell your friends to read it! Tell your enemies to read it! Tell people you have neutral feelings for to read it!), my fairy tale web serial. I'm mostly working on Midnight Estates because I'm doing an experiment with this whole Law of Attraction thing. One of the keys to Allowing things is to be able to easily experience not having them as well. The ideal state is a state of detachment, to be happy either way despite "unfulfilled" desires. I don't really care about Midnight Estates. It was fun to write, and there are some parts of it I'm really proud of, but on the whole I know it's a piece of fluff. So, given that I already understand you don't actually have to have a well written work or even a decent story to get published, and given that I don't really care if the world ever reads this novel (though I want very much to get published still!) I'm going to see if I can toss this one out to the Universe and get some real results. I've got all the ingredients. Let's see what comes out of the oven ;)
BUT, I was talking with my mother about The Poppet and the Lune yesterday, and I got all excited for it again. My plan is, once I've finished writing it, to leave it up for a little while, but eventually take it down from wordpress, spruce it up, and submit it as a middle-grade fiction chapbook. I'd like to see it illustrated, too. Originally I was thinking etchings, like classic fairy tale books often have, but I really love this guy's work. Her stuff is pretty awesome too. At least it opens my eyes to the unique possibilities. Who knows. But, unless I'm thinking collaboratively, I'm pretty sure publishers decide on the illustrators they use. I don't know, I have a really good feeling about this one. It might sound silly, and awfully self-assured, but I have this image of The Poppet and the Lune not only being pretty popular with the kids, but also becoming some kind of cult classic among adults. It's a nice goal to have, anyway ;)
Anything else? Umm... since i can't do the choreography classes at Sol Vibes because of my (stupid) night class, I'm going to do beginner belly dance again on Saturday mornings. I need to master the basics first, anyway. I don't know if I plan on ever really performing, but I'd like to at least get comfortable with improvisational dance so I can use it in ritual and stuff. I find when I'm in class and I'm dancing just because I love dancing, I do well and I have tons of fun. The second I start thinking about what anyone else might think I mess up. Or maybe I don't, but I certainly don't have as much fun.
Tomorrow, I'm planning on taking myself on an Artist Date. It involves constructively smashing things ;) Pictures to follow...
And now, an extra picture outside of the 365 thing, just because I look so evil:
Heeeeee ;D
