| Job App Tally: 9 since June 5th |
[Jun. 24th, 2011|11:58 pm] |
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According to my roommate, if you're "really trying" you're pumping out 10 a week, rather than my 3 a week. Still, I feel pretty good about my progress so far. I will have to pick up the pace in July, but I'm not really moving down yet, so it's a little awkward applying to jobs that I couldn't take for another 6 weeks. nonetheless, I'm going to self-publish my tally of 9 for the self-validation. |
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[Jun. 6th, 2011|11:05 pm] |
This is a test to see how many words I can type per minute. I am timing myself for five minutes in order to get a good average, rather than just a rough guess. Maybe I should do this a few times since I seem to be nervous and making a lot of mistakes, but perhaps this is the best idea after all. Maybe I should also use longer and more impressive words, to not throw the count too far out of whack. Impetuous. Miraculous. Terribly torturously tremendous. I really like the Thirteen Clocks, there are so many good words in there. Tosspot. Tall Tale. wickedly scheming as he wandered down the halls. Importunately risen. Some people juggle geese. Robin Hood and his Merry Men. "Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity of neglect." My brother wanted that poster, and attempted to claim that he deserved it due to his occupation. I doubted him, and he demonstrated proof that he is in fact an engineer. His nametag says as much. My watchmaker’s cabinet is right below the Aviation poster. I truly feel that I should be able to fill it full of wonders and excitement, but somehow I have yet to do so. The Shakespeare Improv show was fun but I have to admit that i desire more from a production than silly people trying to be funny, I love structure and want an overall theme to go with the witty banter. It was too loose and sloppy. really? has the timer not gone off yet? this seems to be going on for quite some time . . .
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[Sep. 16th, 2010|06:23 pm] |
Having a dreamy and surreal day off. I'm still not used to how much time i have now that it's only one job. Especially because it's odd time. and most of it is time that my friends don't have free. but still, new and interesting and time.
I should really go craft up that thing i've been putting off forever, but I think it's a reading day today. |
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| A crafter's reality check. |
[Aug. 15th, 2010|01:31 am] |
( Backstory: The New Years Resolutions . . . )
Up until June, there was progress, but also quite a bit of laziness. (The year is early, I'm doing fine, etc etc.) During the month of June, I was working 5 days a week at one job and 3 days a week at the other. During the month of July I tried to recover, moved, and went on two different vacations for the last ten days.
It is now halfway through the month of August. I have finished 10 assorted projects and one quilt top, one book (the other eleven are still just as close to being done as they were eight months ago) and three quilts. (I almost had to fight my mother for the second one. While at her house I unearthed a 39" square wall hanging that was quilted and even had the binding halfway sewn on, and immediately offered to finish it. She said no, it was small and easy and she just needed to get around to it, I really didn't have to. I said yes, it was small and easy and a cheap way to add to my quilt quota. She laughed, but agreed.) I think that this is not at all a shabby turnout. I still have hopes for getting all 60 projects done by the end of the year, but I'm not entirely sure how possible that is. A good goal though . . . (Incidentally, if anyone reading this isn't already friends with me on facebook, I've been posting them to albums; 20-10 resolution and Another 20-10 Resolution.
I also may be renting a booth on Venice Pier, the local spot for artists to sell their stuff. My coworkers and I are thinking of going in on a booth, and I think it sounds like fun. |
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[May. 4th, 2010|07:46 pm] |
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not that I have the money for it, but I covet the Kindle. Big time. But if I can get an iPhone (or hell, since we're being imaginary anyways, an iPad) that will also read kindle books as well as make calls and surf the internets and all of that stuff, why would I get a kindle that just has one application? Kindles are $260, iPhones are between $200-300 plus the monthly cost of the phone bill and everything, and iPads are $500. Honestly, I'd rather pay twice as much for something that does way more than twice as many things (i.e. the kindle and the ipad), but i don't know if there;s something I'm missing. It's nice that the kindle isn't backlit, that's what bugs me most about reading on computer screens. hmm. |
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| accomplishment of the day . . . |
[Mar. 24th, 2010|10:29 am] |
I made my first omlette! it didn't fall apart or break in half or anything!
Here's hoping i don't get salmonella |
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| my productive day off |
[Mar. 2nd, 2010|09:48 pm] |
I woke up before 9 this morning, which on a day off is pretty damn early for me. (in my defense, my coffeeshop closes at 11 during the week and midnight friday/saturday, so sometimes i get home pretty late from work.) I watched my netflix movie and put it in the mailbox BEFORE the mailman came, so it would get sent out today. then I watched the movie that a friend loaned me over a month ago so i can give it back to him before he moves. then i worked on a knitting project i've been putting off for a few weeks since it involves taking it all apart to undo the mistake three long rows ago. (and ariel, i do know about using a crochet hook to pull up stitches rather than frogging, but this was a mistake involving yarn overs and decreases and i wasn't quite sure i was confident enough to mess with that.) And then i finished the book i was reading. so i felt rather productive despite not leaving the couch for several hours.
then i found out that my friend mike and his girlfriend rachel weren't going to be able to go with me to the book signing of Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter tonight since rachel's sick. while i don't mind going alone, it seemed like the kind of thing that would be fun to do with friends. since my friends were all at work or in class, i called jesse and got the phone numbers of his friends paul and ashlen who i see when i hang out with jesse but haven't hung out with on my own yet. ashlen is sick (damn girlfriends) so they couldn't come, but i could tell they were both really flattered that i had thought of them and tried to include them. then i called my friend chandler from work (who was working tonight) and asked for his best friend jordan's number. jordan just got hired at coffee bean also, and on his first day we ended up talking ender's game, robert jordan's wheel of time series and how we both feel absolutely no need to read it, DND, and pancakes. so while i don't know him that well yet, i'm making some pretty safe assumptions that we'll be friends. he said he would have loved to come but he had plans for tonight and couldn't make it. I think he felt pretty spiffy that i'm counting him as a book geek friend, especially with a new job and new coworkers and everything. so that's kinda cool to have made the first overtures of friendship, even if it didn't work out. Avi might have been willing to come with me, but his girlfriend was going to come over tonight and wouldn't make it in time. (again girlfriends!! and she didn't even come in the end.)
and then i went to the vampire hunter book signing and asked 2 questions during the Q&A, and then got complimented by Seth Graham-Smith on my Inigo Montoya hoodie, which was way awesome.
so even tho most of my day was either spent on the couch or playing fruitless phone-tag, i still feel like i got a lot done today. all of the people that i called are people that i would like to see more, and even though tonight didn't work out (and i'm not really surprised, it was crazy short notice) i feel like i made some good starts with people. when i first moved down to LA i was sort of desperate for privacy and my own space, but now that i've been down for a while i'm realizing that what i'm missing right now from my life are friends who i can hang out with for a few hours and then part ways, rather than friends like hillary and jesse who are amazing but sort of all-day commitments. it's nice to feel liek i'm making new friends, even if they're friends of pre-existing friends. |
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[Feb. 25th, 2010|03:11 pm] |
so while searching around on amazon, i found a web site where you can subscribe and get heavily discounted audiobooks. basically, it's $15 a month and you get 75% off one book a month and 30% off of any other audiobooks you buy. Since it's internet you can also buy the files, which is kinda neat since I always lose cds, sometimes before they make it onto my comp.
the problem is that it's not really 75% off, it's minus 75% and then plus $15 per month. so i'm still back up to 20-30 per audio book. and i don't know if i'd listen to all that many, especially since i don't listen to them in cars i listen to them while i'm doing projects. that being said, i go through books pretty well while doing projects, and in theory i can cancel any time so i could do it for a few months and just get the cheap books. especially because their offer is only $7.50 for the first three months as a trial and then cancel any time after that.
it's an interesting idea, i just don't know if i need that many audio books. |
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[Feb. 18th, 2010|01:16 pm] |
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since pretty much everyone who reads this is also on facebook, i'm sure you've already noticed that i've been posting lots of pictures of recently finished projects. it's amazing that i feel the burst of pride and accomplishment while making the photo albums recording my finished projects. I mean, when i actually finish projects it's exciting but then I give them to their recipients, or they sit on a chair until I use them, or get buried under a pile of unfinished projects that I want to remind myself to work on. with the albums I feel like I've got a record of things that i have done and like i can cross things off of the list.
I'm also amazed how much I can get done in two days off in a row. Today isn't a real day off, I'm closing at 4:30 pm, but i had yesterday off and most of today off and I closed tuesday so i had most of tuesday off as well. i'm making albums and finishing stuff and it's awesome. not sure how long I'll be able to keep up this crazy pace, but it's kinda fun. must be the weather getting nice again. |
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