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Feb. 21st, 2007 03:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Hey,
Well, this is a little random journal babbling about various things.
I am recuperating from putting the new songifc collection together. Then, on orders of my beta, I am to focus again on Journey. I suppose I should, after all we do have a while to go in it and we do have some exciting story lines ahead! I will also try to get some more drabbles and "Games" written up as we go. It all depends on how busy I get---or how much things like American Idol or the new NIN DVD distract me.
Until next time,
Far Away Eyes
Well, this is a little random journal babbling about various things.
My Ranma manga arrived in the mail today. Yay! I also got another Inuyasha volume. WOW is Ranma's manga volums so much bigger. They're some 150 or so pages longer than an Inuyasha volume. Might account where there are fewer to buy? I don't know just when I'll get to reading it, but I am just happy to have it. Now I just have to decide if I want to buy another pair of manga volumes (One Inu, one Ranma) or if I want to buy another one of the Inuyasha Perfect Collection DVDs. I suppose I shall decide when I go to make that fabled "purchase" of the month. I just wish I could buy more at at time.
While I am on about "I wish I could buy more," I got a call from that staffing agency yesterday. They told me that I was qualified for the packaging line job. I didn't take it. They could not gaurantee that the job would be permanent. I thought about taking it after they talked about putting my name in, but I arrived to the conclusion that the last time I took a job from a temporary agency like this for Schwan's, a month later I was unemployed. If they had perhaps said it was a permanent position I would have considered it a lot more as a real possibility. I know I don't get a whole lot of hours with ShopKo, but I do know I at least have a job that won't be disappearing anytime soon for the most part. I didn't want to take the risk of jumping into this temporary agency position then find out that they don't want me after a month or so and then have to wonder what I'll do next. I don't know if ShopKo would hire me back, and even if they did, would I be hired back on at the pay amount I currently make? I can only hope that my hours will increase there as we get past the "after Christmas" slump or that I can get a real job offer for a good, permanent job.
That brings me to the next thing I am doing. I have made an appointment next week with the Career Services at my college. My professor put it best when I spoke with her: It looks bad on THEIR part if I don't get a job in MY field. I have redone my resume as best as I can, and I will have them help me make it even better. I will also start to really start a career job search that will perhaps get me the kind of job I really want: one that uses my writing skills. I don't know what kind of job I'd really like to get into, but I would not mind being an editor or submissions screener for some kind of literary journal. I think we shall see what happens as far as that is concerned. I just don't think I'll get to be on my own or make the kind of money I really need and want to make by job jumping from one menial job to another. It's just not what I went to college for in the first place, either. I could have just as well started working for ShopKo and skipped college otherwise. I am hopeful that I will find something that will finally put my skills to use. We shall see.
That brings me to the next thing I am doing. I have made an appointment next week with the Career Services at my college. My professor put it best when I spoke with her: It looks bad on THEIR part if I don't get a job in MY field. I have redone my resume as best as I can, and I will have them help me make it even better. I will also start to really start a career job search that will perhaps get me the kind of job I really want: one that uses my writing skills. I don't know what kind of job I'd really like to get into, but I would not mind being an editor or submissions screener for some kind of literary journal. I think we shall see what happens as far as that is concerned. I just don't think I'll get to be on my own or make the kind of money I really need and want to make by job jumping from one menial job to another. It's just not what I went to college for in the first place, either. I could have just as well started working for ShopKo and skipped college otherwise. I am hopeful that I will find something that will finally put my skills to use. We shall see.
Now time for some fangirling: Nine Inch Nails will have a new DVD next week. YAY. Beside You Time(The With Teeth Tour Live DVD) will be out on Tuesday, and even though i shouldn't, I will buy a copy. I can't wait. On top of it, we have had two new tracks from the new album Year Zero that drops in April: "Survivalism" and "My Violent Heart." Trent Reznor is sober and a busy bee, because With Teeth just came out in 2005, so he's super early on this release because it normally takes 5-7 years between albums. So far I like "My Violent Heart" better of the two, mainly because I am lost in the other song without being able to read the lyrics. He's punching you in the face with both songs, but "My Violent Heart" just seems to sound a little bit clearer when I listen to the lyrics. I am pleased that he is bringing back some sounds we haven't heard since he released the remix album Further Down the Spiral. Totally awesome. Now the real question: Will NIN tour the US and if so WHERE? Cause I don't know if I could pull off another trip to NYC to visit my crazy NIN fan and go to a couple shows this time. He's ought to play the Xcel Energy Center again so I can go see him. I am excited. And this time, he better have a better opening act than the Arena tour did. Get someone like the Dresden Dolls again, seriously. They were a surprise and I fell in love with them half way through the first song (Good Day if you're curious). And that is my fangirling moment of the day. My life would be complete, though, if Depeche Mode toured and came near enough for me to see!
I am recuperating from putting the new songifc collection together. Then, on orders of my beta, I am to focus again on Journey. I suppose I should, after all we do have a while to go in it and we do have some exciting story lines ahead! I will also try to get some more drabbles and "Games" written up as we go. It all depends on how busy I get---or how much things like American Idol or the new NIN DVD distract me.
Until next time,
Far Away Eyes