And yet another update of "I have no life anymore", although that's not entirely true. Actually, although I'm busy with school (which I am starting to get sick of... good thing I've only got about another year and a half until my master's and then I should hopefully be done with school for good) and work (which I am surprisingly not getting sick of), I've found time to geek over Laurel and Hardy, the movie Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (which is seriously an AWESOME movie, and if you haven't seen it yet you definitely should), and Disney's upcoming Princess and the Frog (I've already bought two books for it, which spoiled the ending but made me if anything even MORE excited to actually see the movie in December... oh, and Prince Naveen is my new animated crush and Naveen/Tiana is my new OTP FOR LIFE). I also managed to get my Hey Arnold fic finished and posted! [link] Good thing, too, because I still have no time, and now no desire, to write at the moment.

I got an email a few days ago asking me to set up a time to interview for a job as a library aide at one of the Omaha public libraries. I've had to find someone to cover my work schedule for me at the grocery store, but I'm going to get interviewed for it tomorrow. Please pray for me/wish me luck/send me good karma/whatever! It would be AMAZING if I could get this job, seeing as I'm actually going to school to be a librarian and having some actual experience working in a library would help me out in my classes immensely. Plus, two jobs equals more money, which is always good. (It would be part-time, and so is my current job, so I could manage it. Maybe. It'll probably mean I'll be working around fifty to sixty hours a week, though. GOODBYE FREE TIME!)

So, again, no, I probably won't be posting any artwork for the foreseeable future. Not only do I have no time, but every time I try to draw, I look at what other people here on DA are drawing, and they're often so amazing that they just discourage me, rather than inspire me. I can never draw as good as so many other people here, so why bother trying? (A similar thing happens to me when I go to play the piano but my brother plays completely amazingly beforehand, and then berates himself for how much it sucks. YOU WANT SUCKY, LISTEN TO ME, LITTLE BROTHER!)

(cough)

Have a great November, and happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Americans. See you in a month!

Having a job and school to worry about will do that to you.

Holy crap, October already. Monthly DA update time! I really have no interesting news to share, though. As I said above, my time's mainly been occupied by working and doing my homework for class. In addition to online discussions, right now we're also making websites, doing the HTML coding from scratch. I'm about finished with mine (I'm doing it on my Argentina trip) and it's not half-bad looking, considering I'm pretty much an HTML noob.

But yeah, other than that... my social life has come to pretty much a dead-halt again, and to my surprise I really don't mind so much. I always knew I was a lone wolf. I have been seeing my friends and family a little bit, though, especially last weekend, when my friend Pam and I went to the Husker football game. It was the 300th consecutive sellout (a record for college football), so it was pretty awesome. And I got my Valentino's pizza fix, too. I might be going to another game this month, on the 24th. Mom has a wedding to go to so I might go with my dad.

The 24th is also my birthday, so what better way to ring in my twenty-third year of life?

TWENTY-THREE OMGWTFBBQ

I'm old.

I haven't drawn anything lately and have no real desire to, so my DA gallery will probably remain update-less for awhile. Plus, you know, I also have no free time anymore. Okay, so actually I do have a little free time, and during that time I've been writing in my Hey Arnold fic. Truthfully, I've kind of lost my inspiration for it, but I'm literally almost finished with it and I kind of miss posting fanfic on FF.net, so I'd like to get it finishd and have something to post. Hopefully by the end of this month it'll be done. Then maybe I can go back to the Licky/Gos story? (Oh, who am I kidding, that thing's over two years old, I'LL NEVER GET IT FINISHED. )

Have a great October everyone, and happy Halloween thirty-one days in advance and all that jazz.

(I can't change my mood icon wtf. Oh well, I don't really know what mood I'm in right now anyway.)

What the title says.

So in July I was living in the apartment by myself for a few weeks until my roommate got back, right? Like me, she was looking for a job, and she actually got one that she went to college for--a teaching job! However, she's teaching three grades with a total of about eight students, in a tiny little town in Nebraska called Basset, which is about a four hour drive away from Omaha. Needless to say, she moved out, took all her furniture, and I was left with a bed, computer (which I finally got hooked up to the internet, YAY), desk, small TV perched on Rubbermaid containers, and college moon chair. I didn't have any real chairs or couches, or end tables (I did have a small coffee table), or even a dining table and chairs. Nor did I have a job.

However, right when I got back from the Booe family reunion in Madison, Wisconsin (which was actually a lot of fun), I got two calls for job interviews. One was at Barnes and Noble (although it was for working in the café rather than actually with the books), and the other was for Bag 'N Save, a grocery store. I thought the interview for the B&N job went better than the BNS one, although I would have preferred the BNS job because it had better hours. (Thirty five--not quite full time, so no benefits, but still a decent amount.)

To my surprise, though, I got offered the Bag 'N Save job. So now I have a job--as a grocery store cashier! Oh, thank you, four years of college! No, in all seriousness, I know the economy's in the toilet and I'm grateful that I have a job at all. And I'm actually getting okay at ringing up the purchases and counting out change. I'm not much of a math person (English major and all, you know), but I can add up change faster than I would have thought.

Then, about a week and a half ago, my parents came up to visit me, brought me more furniture (including a recliner and a dining table/chairs), and then after Dad had to go back to Columbus because he had to work, Mom took me shopping and bought me, well, just about everything I'll need. Dishes, cooking utensils, cleaning supplies, a vacuum, and perhaps most importantly, she even took me to Nebraska Furniture Mart and got me a COUCH. A very cheap yet quite comfy couch. And a DVD cabinet. For the first time in over two years, I can actually keep my DVDs in their cases now! And when I went home last weekend, Mom let me take a bunch of wall hangings she had, too, including her portrait of Thomas Jefferson... So now my apartment actually looks like someone lives in it.

And you know, not that sharing living space with Pam was bad, because it wasn't... but God, do I love living by myself. If I ever seriously contemplate marriage, somebody smack me upside the head, will ya?

So everything's going pretty well! I haven't been paid yet, but I should be getting paid on Friday... I hope. I need money. But I have a job now, and my apartment is furnished, so I'm quite happy.

On Saturday I had my first graduate school classes! In the morning I had Leadership and Management in Libraries and Information Agencies (what a mouthful), and in the afternoon I had Introduction to Information Technology. I think the classes should be doable for me. The bulk of the work is online--we only actually meet in class around five times the semester. And those are always on Saturdays, and when I got my job I specifically said I can't work Saturdays, so that won't conflict. So yay for being a student again.

I do have a lot of work to do for those classes, though, plus my work schedule and actually taking care of my apartment, sooooo... not that they were ever really officially open (or closed), but requests are now closed. Sorry about that, especially to the people who had requests waiting, but in addition to having no time, I also haven't felt like drawing for a long time. I've been more into writing fanfiction when I find the time, because I currently have three unfinished fanfics (for three different fandoms) that, when finished, should be multi-chaptered. I'd like to finish at least one (preferably all) of them, and make room to start new ideas. Damn brain of mine. I've got an idea for an I Dream of Jeannie fanfic. No, seriously. I've been watching it lately and bought all five seasons on DVD (they were only %15 each at Borders! That's a damn good deal! I couldn't pass it up)... okay, yeah, new fandom, I'm an idiot.

Have a great September, everyone, and again I'm sorry for not being around here as much, but it can't be helped.

Well, for a month now I've been living in the apartment in Omaha, and during that time I've updated my LiveJournal periodically with complaints about how my life's been going. I'm going to try to not do that here, though, because even though there are two good reasons I have to complain--I don't have a job, and I don't have internet on my computer (more on that in a minute)--I know that I also have a lot to be thankful for. I have a nice apartment that I'm sharing with someone who I can actually live with and not want to strangle either myself or her, I have a car that's never given me any problems (knock on wood forever), I have amazing friends and family who support me, I'm fairly healthy especially considering I don't eat very well and I'm not really very active, I have my writing talent that really does make me happy and gives me something to do, yadda yadda yadda. I'm also enjoying living in a big city more than I expected I would. Life is good, and it's only going to get better once I get a job.

I moved in here a month ago, on July 1st. In my last entry I mentioned that my laptop was kind of dying, but that day it actually DID turn on. However, it constantly believed the battery was at 0%, even when I had it plugged in and it should have been charging. I was also getting the blue screen of death pretty often, so my dad offered to buy me a desktop. (Well, I paid him back for about a third of it.) I'm really liking it, especially since I bought the Sims 3 for it. But there is a problem--it doesn't want to connect to the internet. We have DSL here, and it seems to want a username and password, and Pam doesn't know what that could be. Besides, before Pam got here I had my laptop on her desk and was getting online on that just fine without any password. Anyway, we're probably going to stop being lazy and call the internet provider on Monday and see if they can't help me get online on my computer and I don't have to leach off Pam's laptop to go online anymore.

My younger brother was at the apartment last week too. He got a job as the drumline coach at Benson High School (our old band director works there now, which is how he got the job), but since he lives in Lincoln and he didn't want to make the hour drive every day during the drumline band camp, I let him stay at the apartment here. He might be here again this coming week, too, for the actual band camp... I need to get in touch with him and find out for sure.

In addition to fruitlessly looking for jobs (although I did apply for one at Dana College--I'll laugh my butt off if I get it, but it's about the only job that I'm halfway experienced in), I've been writing. Without internet on my computer, I have nothing to distract me while doing so, which means... in the time span of about two weeks I've written close to 30,000 words in three different stories. The majority of that being in a new Hey Arnold story with no current plot. Blah, I suck. But I'm still chugging away on that one, and at the rate I'm going I'll probably be finished with it in another two weeks or so. I've also been working on the Licky/Gos that'll never get finished I'm sure, and I also started the sequel to Refugee. Yeah, you read that right. The sequel to Refugee.

Hopefully I'll get more frequent internet soon, but in the even I don't... and even if I do, since I'm not on DA much anymore... if you want to contact me and have Facebook, that's the way to do it. [link] I get Facebook on my phone--actually, I get the internet in general on my phone, but the screen's small and it takes ages to load and usually it's just not worth it, especially with DA and LJ. But the Facebook application is easy to use and alerts me of updates. If you do add me, make sure you add a note telling me your DA name so I know that I actually (kind of) know who you are.

I'll update again next month, hopefully from my own computer and with the news that I've got a job! But even if I don't have one by then, my classes start at the end of August and I'll have a family reunion I'm going to next week (I let my mom talk me into it) to talk about.

I know I said I'd update this journal on July 1st, which is tomorrow, but I don't know now that I'll have the time to do that tomorrow. Besides, it's already July 1st in Australia... right?

This month's been really busy for me. I haven't really had time to look for a job, which I'm sure is going to bite me in the butt later. But really, it was pretty much not feasible for me to look for jobs, with what all I've been doing. Like I mentioned in my last journal, I spent about two weeks in North Carolina/South Carolina/Virginia at two of my cousins' high school graduations, and a family reunion at a beach house in Myrtle Beach. And yes, that was glorious. When we got back, about a week and a half ago, I was then kept busy by my mom to help prepare for my aunt Monica's wedding. She lives in Wisconsin, but she wanted to get married at the nursing home where my grandma is so that she could be there (not that Grandma really recognized the significance of what was going on, but she did constantly remark things like "Aren't they pretty?" throughout the ceremony). The nursing home that she's at is about half an hour away from Columbus, and since we have a big house, we of course had the reception here. And Mom went ballistic getting it cleaned. Although not as ballistic as Aunt Monica went getting the food ready the day before. And I was the only one in the house at that time to witness it and try to pull her out of it. My mom's side of the family are all so tightly wound. I still sometimes wonder if I'm adopted, because I look and act absolutely nothing like them... well, okay, I inherited the oddball-ness from them, so I take it back. The wedding went really nice, though. Mom and I played flute at it. And during the entire month of June, I've seen pretty much everyone on the planet that I'm related to. (Making up for June of last year, during which I saw no one I was related to. (I was in Argentina.))

Tomorrow I'll finally be moving in to the apartment in Omaha. I've actually wanted to postpone my job searching until I'm actually in Omaha, because applying online doesn't seem to have the same zing as applying in person. I had thought that I'd probably be able to find time to update my journal, but when packing my stuff today, I found that my laptop was almost dead, because some how it got unplugged during the wedding madness. Oh well, plug it in and charge it, right? Wrong. It's totally unresponsive. (sigh) The thing is over four years old and a total piece of crap, so maybe it's time for a new one... Mom and Dad will be going with me to help me move in tomorrow, and Dad suggested we go to Sam's Club and see if there's a decent yet reasonably-priced computer I can get. I've been wanting to get a desktop for awhile now, and I guess now I've gotten a nudge to just get one sooner. (Dad seemed to indicate that he'd help me pay for it, which is definitely a plus.) I have most of my writing that I am hoping to continue (ie... the Licky/Gos story, and that's about it) on a disk, along with a lot of (but not all) of my Petz. There's also a lot of started fics that I always thought I may or may not get back to... I don't like losing that kind of stuff, but the Licky/Gos is safe, and most of my most important Petz are safe, and the rest I can handle losing.

I'll update next month--I have another wedding I'm playing flute at, along with getting used to living in an apartment and such, and trying to find a job. I'd appreciate prayers--I'm nervous, but not so totally scared that I can't function (at least not right now). And will artwork finally come? Maybe. My printer/scanner still works fine, after all.