I died for awhile, mostly due to the hard times of having to work as a secretary after completing a Bachelor of Science in Biology. @_@;; It was so depressing, I stopped pretty must doing any online-fun aside from MMORPGs...because those are mindless, and a really good way to forget the dreariness of whatever reality happens to be for you at the moment.
So yeah, for a good two years my life had been: Wake up, Go to a job I hate, Come home, Log onto Final Fantasy XI either on my PC or PS2, stay up too late, have trouble sleeping, wake up the next day at 3pm just in time to go to work and repeat the cycle. When I was off work I'd go to the city, visit the boyfriend, catch up on any comics that I was still bothering to read (as of now the only thing I read is Whendon's Astonishing...last time I even peeked at Flash I wanted to cry!!). When I was home in Connecticut and unable to go into the city, I'd mope around with my Jack Russell Terrier, Sweetie, occasionally take her for walks, occasionally exercise.
Around June, and my 25th birthday (IT MADE ME FEEL SO OLD D: D: D
smile , I told where I was working as a secretary, New Milford Hospital, that I was either going to find a way to go to Graduate School in the fall, or find a full-time job in the New York Area, and therefore wouldn't be able to work there much longer. I applied occasionally, never got any call backs. I found out I couldn't get a second BS in Chemistry from the school I went to because...you're only allowed one degree type per University. They told me if I wanted to take the 2 chemistry classes I was missing that kept me from having a dual BS I could just take them while signing up for a downgraded Biology degree...x_X So work on a BA in Biology, and take unofficial high level Chemistry classes as an elective. Also, if I want to do the Grad school thing I'd have to take the GRE and send out applications by December '06 to be able to start in September '07....@___@ *SIGH* All this, mixed with feelings of not knowing if I even want to continue a full-time career in science, since I couldn't even get an entry-level job in the field in the two years since I got my BS, and thinking I shoulda just gone to art school...had left me just feeling overall VERY CRAPY, CONFUSED, and LOST. D:
The Hospital, being so understaffed, had been keeping me on long past when I said I would have had a new job by. Unfortunately, just this month, they had to cut back even more, and my position was eliminated~! D: The bad news, I had barely been able to pay my monthly student loans and credit card bill as it was. The good news, I can collect Connecticut State Unemployment while continuing my job search efforts, and I've been doing secret web design work to keep those bills getting paid.
So... @_@ If you've managed to stick with me through all that, here's how it is for me now~! I'm spending a lot more time in New York City, and applying for at least four new jobs a week. The only thing that makes me sad about having to be here, is that I can't bring my dog. She's gotten too old... ;-; I have the good ol' manslave here to cheer me up, but puppy snuggling >>>> man snuggling. Next week I'm probably going to start going *below* entry level and/or showing up in person. Every online application submitted to Pepsico/NYU Medical Center, no matter how much they write all over the place that "online" is their preferred method, I never even get a freaking call for an interview~! So maybe if I show up in person, and that way can find out who reads the applications so I can make cover letters for my resume and send follow-up letters... n_n Things will go better~!
Through my period of job-searching, I slowly started catching up with the online social life I had left behind. And that of the real world too~! :3 I started posting to my LJ more, which made it easier to get in touch with old friends I hadn't met with in nearly a year. From then on it was RPG catch up time that I hadn't posted to in months/years. I found myself so excited about my old characters, and ended up doodling them even, dusting off my tablet and art supplies that had gone unused for so long.
And now I'm trying to catch back up to the Gaia stuff, so here I am....
3nodding I missed everyone~! Sorry I was gone so long.
PS WALLY IS THE FLASH FOREVER~! D: Wishing that one day he'll just be back, and Bart will be younger again...and somehow in his Impulse costume again, also. The whole thing was so soap-opera-y. Why does the Comic Industry feel the need for ridiculous mega crossovers that do drastic changes...? How about just writing....stories that are good without killing characters off, ******** up timelines, taking away people's powers...? "Lolz, lets make Bart go away as a teenling, come back mid-twenties it will be greatz!! And he only needs to wait 2 issue before he has hot woman to bangz!!!" n_n;; This pretty much sums up why I'm only reading my one bi-monthly (heh...) Astonishing X-Men.
heart Kitty, and even
heart Cyclops in that, as of late.
One day I will dig through the manslaves' archives and get caught up on Fables. Aside from that, the only title I'm really missing reading is She-Hulk. I forgot to buy it one week before it reset..and just never picked it up again. n_n;; Now when I go to the comic shop, I'm just the stereotypical anime girl....I just check for a new volume of Fruits Basket, barely giving the new DC and Marvel titles a second look. Is Teen Titans any good again? u_u;; In other words, are Beastboy and Raven both back and snogging in it yet? Does Nightwing still have random casual sex in his own title instead of crushing on Babs, or even Starfire? D: Haha, I complain about one title about being upset on Bart's thrown together adulthood and love interest, then say I am sad to see I don't see the macking going on in other titles~!
Well I certainly went ahead and wrote a book... o_o;
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