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In the meantime! I got a new job and then promptly did crazy hours wherein I basically lived at the office. 2 people have gotten fired and 1 person is leaving next week - so I'm not sure what my hours will look like once that happens. Alarming, probably. Still, a job is a job! I'm learning quite a bit.
I already took advantage of my vacation days! The first vacations I've ever taken in my life!
I've been to Canada and South Carolina now. I want to visit all my friends that I'd been promising to visit. Maybe I'll take a trip down to MD or up to Boston.
Who's up for it next year? A couple days of sight seeing?
California!
Creatively, I've picked up writing because it seems to come easier to me than drawing does these days. I'm CG painting more than drawing. Drawing is still quite hard. I want to figure out this work/life balance situation so I can actually devote time to drawing again - but that doesn't seem like it's going to be happening any time soon. Maybe next year. Supposedly the schedule will lessen significantly then.
I already took advantage of my vacation days! The first vacations I've ever taken in my life!
I've been to Canada and South Carolina now. I want to visit all my friends that I'd been promising to visit. Maybe I'll take a trip down to MD or up to Boston.
Who's up for it next year? A couple days of sight seeing?
California!
Creatively, I've picked up writing because it seems to come easier to me than drawing does these days. I'm CG painting more than drawing. Drawing is still quite hard. I want to figure out this work/life balance situation so I can actually devote time to drawing again - but that doesn't seem like it's going to be happening any time soon. Maybe next year. Supposedly the schedule will lessen significantly then.
Sign up is here. Final issue will be book 53.
I feel sad because it feels like the end of an era - but it's been 10 years and I guess it's time for things to come to an end, finally. There have been many zines on LJ here and it seems like even print zines are fast disappearing. It was good to see that there were a few hold outs, but I guess SSBB is the last one chugging along? I don't think they have any issues with readership or contributions, though.
I feel sad because it feels like the end of an era - but it's been 10 years and I guess it's time for things to come to an end, finally. There have been many zines on LJ here and it seems like even print zines are fast disappearing. It was good to see that there were a few hold outs, but I guess SSBB is the last one chugging along? I don't think they have any issues with readership or contributions, though.
still unemployed and job searching. Not sure what to do to improve my chances of getting a job, though.
I got 2 interviews (didn't pass second rounds despite positive response), 1 failed phone interview. And... one notification from an HR person that they're reviewing my application.
All in all, not a TERRIBLE response but it's not the same as actually landing a job, right.
Trying to stay productive, so I've been writing. I'm aiming to hit 200 wds a day like a friend mentioned was a good way to reach at least a minimal amount of stead productivity. It's working well so far. Maybe I'll have a finished novella when I'm done with this. That's good, right?
I got 2 interviews (didn't pass second rounds despite positive response), 1 failed phone interview. And... one notification from an HR person that they're reviewing my application.
All in all, not a TERRIBLE response but it's not the same as actually landing a job, right.
Trying to stay productive, so I've been writing. I'm aiming to hit 200 wds a day like a friend mentioned was a good way to reach at least a minimal amount of stead productivity. It's working well so far. Maybe I'll have a finished novella when I'm done with this. That's good, right?
:( Didn't get the job. The big boss didn't seem to like me the way the other interviewers did. Lasted about 15 minutes and he was shuffling me out the door.
Trying to reevaluate my current skills and career direction. I'm not sure what I have to fall back on. Right now, I'm stuck in a dead end field and I need a stable source of income. *stress* I will figure something out eventually, I guess.
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Trying to reevaluate my current skills and career direction. I'm not sure what I have to fall back on. Right now, I'm stuck in a dead end field and I need a stable source of income. *stress* I will figure something out eventually, I guess.
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Holy crap, what is this new friends page? It makes so little sense to me.
Got a job interview for a hail mary job I barely qualify for - and 2 hours later, apparently made a good enough impression that they want me back for the second one.
Not feeling entirely enthused about it because it'd be a massively steep learning curve and a 1.5 hr commute with low pay, but it's a job!
Not feeling entirely enthused about it because it'd be a massively steep learning curve and a 1.5 hr commute with low pay, but it's a job!
I'm back to the "I'm alive!" posts it seems. Also did lj change again. It took me maybe 5 attempts to post this thing.
Update:
The company I worked for went bankrupt and I became unemployed. ( job search related whinigCollapse )
Update:
The company I worked for went bankrupt and I became unemployed. ( job search related whinigCollapse )
- Current Mood:
frustrated
one. If I am ever asked for an Asian language series about strong women characters, Jewel in the Palace is definitely on that very short list.
Lady Choi always struck me as a tragic figure. She was the villianess in the series, but if she had any redeeming characteristics, it was her devotion to her family for whom she destroyed her own sense of morality. Even to the end, I don’t think she was entirely successful but she’d done enough damage to everyone that there was really no redeeming her. I still wish that a real opportunity for her redemption might have come up, or that she’d met an end more fitting for her level of power and charisma, but I guess good endings are reserved for those who are heroic enough to earn it.
The scene I remember the most - she was being punished after having badly lost a round of politics and she stood there alone, surrounded by jars of kimchi and shrimp paste declaring to the world that she would remain standing no matter what anyone threw at her. Part of me wonders how that devotion would have been different if she’d come from an honorable family or if she had chosen to place her loyalty in the Emperor. The Emperor was a weak one, but perhaps her strength could have helped hold him up. (Or perhaps she would have brought him down even faster. Who knows?)
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Court lady hair in any incarnation or part of the world is a bitch to draw. I couldn't figure out which direction her braid was twisting or where it ended. I think a part of her still loved her old friend but she made all the wrong decisions and the entire series was really built around the fall out of all these wrong decisions she'd made, all piling up on top of each other.
I did these 3 sketches as a countdown for Star Dust Crusaders (of which I'm terribly behind on and need to catch up.)
Three (Polnareff)
Two (Iggy)
One (Jotaro Kujo and Star Platinum)
Three (Polnareff)
Two (Iggy)
One (Jotaro Kujo and Star Platinum)
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