Job Hunt Redux

So I've looked at my budget again, and I think I'm actually okay until I have to pay my final semester's tuition... and I could accept a bigger loan, which would get me a lot closer... but really I suppose I'm going to need another job. So back to the job search I go.

I've talked to the manager at Emerson's B&N, and sent her my resume. I've also asked at church, and plan on making the rounds of the neighborhood again to see if anything I can walk to is hiring. B&N in the mall doesn't seem to be, but it wouldn't hurt to go ask anyway.

Also: internships! The guest speaker at my next editing class works for a company that just might have them! More on that later...


Silver Lining

Decision Points

This is a really, really good book.  Bush looks at major decisions he made before and during his years as president, and he analyzes them.  What was their significance?  Why did he choose the way he did?  Was he right or wrong?  What could he have done instead?  The analysis is actually really good, and while I don't know whether or not a political scientist would like the book, the historian in me loved it.

Especially the bit where I was reading about his hopes for Egypt about two days after Mubarak was forced out.  I was impressed.

Luxury Is...

indoor, private laundry

a fridge of one's own

a view of the horizon

a boss who respects people



One down, three to go.  I'm moving up in the world.

Bit Damp for Owl

I thought, when I looked out the window this morning, that there was no reason for the snow day we're having today.  It wasn't snowing... it wasn't even really raining much. Then I went to pay the rent, just around the corner.

I have just successfully completed that expedition, and lived to tell the tale. I must say, it's a good thing classes are canceled today. I don't think I could make it there without an amphibious vehicle of some sort, like maybe one of these.

We have several feet of snow, melting really fast, but there's nowhere that's not paved and the drains are clogged with ice.  Where there's still snow, some of it's rock-solid and some just looks like it while actually being liquid.  Then there's the parts that are a little of both, so that you sink through sharp edges. I am so staying inside the rest of the day. Groceries can wait.

Checking In

I'm being very productive right now, so I thought I'd continue my streak and update here.


Some discoveries I've made:

I am still good at Twister.  But not as good as Claire.

I can survive being the only manager in the store when things go wrong (Thanks to Meredith for support).

Working in a bookstore is dangerous to my checkbook.  You'd think I'd have figured this out already.

Five-minute rolls from the bakery are an awesome solution to the fast fast food/real food dilemma.

This semester is going to be an incredible amount of work - but so much fun. If I can keep up.

I am Sadistic. No Really.

Copyediting is way too much fun.  BRING IT ON.  I will tear it to shreds.

Mwahahaha!




Ahem.

You didn't see that.

Back to Classes

So now I'm a supervisor and in 3 classes - copyediting, magazine overview, and book editing.  Book reviews are suspended for now because book lending has been suspended at Borders until we finish a rather extensive and thorough inventory check.

Being a supervisor is cool, I guess.  At least I'm not tied in one spot any more - I can walk around and talk to the customers.

My first copyediting class is tomorrow - we'll see how that goes.

Magazine overview is interesting.  Magazines aren't really for me, but I think it will be fun.  I plan on focusing my papers on kids' literary magazines.

Book editing is going to be work - but it's going to be so much fun!  And I'm now receiving the New York Times daily, to be read for class.