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I am officially irritated by the fact that I have not been able to write a thing in the past four days. Escpecally due to the fact that the Haiti fic I'm still working on (I know, I know) is JUST getting to a really good part. Another Brother has gotten to a part that I've wanted to get to for the past, uh, year, and In His Shoes is SO CLOSE to being done, but... nothing's coming. I've tried everything that usually works -- writing in some of my growing collection of notebooks, going for long pointless drives on my scooter, taking the dog for a walk, listening to audiobooks. I'm just uninspired.
I'm able to do B.S resume's just fine, so I have something to do with my sudden extraordinary free time. lol.
I've heard nothing from the unemployment office, although it's only been a week since I was fired. (Seems a lot longer when you're waiting, though.) I've heard it takes up to five weeks in my state to start receiving payouts, and that's only IF I'm approved. We'll see. Then I gotta somehow figure out how to get myself approved for going to school at the same time.
I looked into my transcript from the year or so I went to college (which might be a little bit of an exaggeration, because I hardly ever went, if you know what I mean ) and I have about 36 credits Out of those, some were for some classes that probably won't be transferable and/or useful, like guitar, weight training in the gym, and this really weird drum-circle class I took. As you can imagine, my GPA blows.
What can I say? I was 17, sick and tired of classrooms, teachers and homework. My parents were divorcing and I was out on my own for the very first time and working two part-time jobs. School felt like a waste of my time and energy and I treated it as such.
But I figure, maybe if I go back and treat it like a full-time job I can get the 30 or so odd credits in a year and get an A.S. Maybe. I know I have a lot more discipline now then I did before. Although I'm not sure how much difference an A.S. would make over a high school diploma in the long run, to be honest. I know it can't hurt, but... yeah.
OR I could just go to http://www.degrees-for-sale.com/ and do the same thing for a lot cheaper. Haha! (Kidding, kidding.)
Now that I've written this out, it makes me realize that I have a lot more stuff running through my head than I realized. Perhaps that's the reason I can't write recently.
I'm able to do B.S resume's just fine, so I have something to do with my sudden extraordinary free time. lol.
I've heard nothing from the unemployment office, although it's only been a week since I was fired. (Seems a lot longer when you're waiting, though.) I've heard it takes up to five weeks in my state to start receiving payouts, and that's only IF I'm approved. We'll see. Then I gotta somehow figure out how to get myself approved for going to school at the same time.
I looked into my transcript from the year or so I went to college (which might be a little bit of an exaggeration, because I hardly ever went, if you know what I mean ) and I have about 36 credits Out of those, some were for some classes that probably won't be transferable and/or useful, like guitar, weight training in the gym, and this really weird drum-circle class I took. As you can imagine, my GPA blows.
What can I say? I was 17, sick and tired of classrooms, teachers and homework. My parents were divorcing and I was out on my own for the very first time and working two part-time jobs. School felt like a waste of my time and energy and I treated it as such.
But I figure, maybe if I go back and treat it like a full-time job I can get the 30 or so odd credits in a year and get an A.S. Maybe. I know I have a lot more discipline now then I did before. Although I'm not sure how much difference an A.S. would make over a high school diploma in the long run, to be honest. I know it can't hurt, but... yeah.
OR I could just go to http://www.degrees-for-sale.com/ and do the same thing for a lot cheaper. Haha! (Kidding, kidding.)
Now that I've written this out, it makes me realize that I have a lot more stuff running through my head than I realized. Perhaps that's the reason I can't write recently.
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One thing that happened to me when I got laid off from a job that sucked was that it felt like I just got dumped by a crappy boyfriend. It was one of those things where you're all "Wait! You can't dump me! I was gonna dump you!" which I'm sure is not helping things. Checks will take a while to come in. They have to verify stuff with your employer.
As a mental toilet flush, go watch Zombieland if you haven't seen it. I just saw it and it was the most adorable zombie movie ever. Shaun of the Dead was funnier but slightly less adorable.
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*grin* That sums it up very nicely, I think. I was expecting for it to happen, and I wouldn't go back for all the tea in China, but... ow, my ego.
:D
I think I might just do that! I'm not usually into zombie movies, but I've heard nothing but good things about that one.
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If you're going to watch Zombieland, don't read ANYTHING else about it since there may be spoilers. It does have some attempt at gross out moments but tongue is always planted firmly in cheek.
Breathing first, writing second...
You may already have heard/know all of this, and if so, sorry for the repetition. Also if none of this turns out to be applicable for what you are looking to get out of school. @_@
If you can get accepted to a school, you can apply for the all-dreaded Student Loans to try and cover some of it up front, and hopefully not be trying to do a full-time job on top of a full class workload. Aggressively pursuing internship opportunities even if you're not in school might be a good thing, but I have no idea how that affects unemployment.
People, myself included, undervalued the tactic of doing two years at a community college where the credits are a lot less expensive and then transferring to the actual school they want to graduate from. Don't let anyone try and stick you with a "but it's community college!" stigma...unless your local CC sucks. If you figure out what you want to do and what credits it takes, knocking out a lot of the basics for it (make sure those credits would transfer first) without paying an arm and a leg can be a smart way of doing it.
Some jobs will pay for you to take college classes. I don't know if they limit the types of classes you can take, if they only want you to take ones vaguely related to the job you already have, but I'm pretty sure my friend finished his Fine Arts degree having FedEx/Kinko's pay for some of it. And I'm not sure if it is tuition reimbursement or paying it for it up-front, but it's still money you'd ultimately be having in your pocket.
So it might be worthwhile to look up who out there is willing to pay for some of its employees' tuition, and what the requirements are to qualify. (Like, working there for 6 months or such.) Consider it a pay-off to offset working at a place that may perhaps be paying you less than what you are worth.
Some of it is just taking a long view of the situation, actually decide where you'd like to be in a year, or five, and then figure out a schedule of what you'd actually need to do to make it there. Sometimes even just having a goal and moving on it can help, even if you change that goal along the way. (Yeah, I need to do this right now too. X_X)
So, once you get all of the stuff you need to live out of the way, and out of your head, you can focus on the more fun stuff. Do you have anyone you talk to about your story progress? I think I've said it before that some of my best breakthroughs came from having other people pose me questions and when I looked for the answer I found something new to even me... at the very least, talking to someone about a project can re-awake your enthusiasm for it.
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But as for a job doing tuition assistance... yeah, my last one did that, only the catch was it had to be for a business major. (I'd cheerfully stab a fork in my own eye rather than sit through those type of classes) That would be totally awesome if I found one that would allow me to keep going on a science major.
If I went back to school, it would most definitely be at a community college. It's within my price range and they aren't bad. I actually wish I could go back to the one I started with because the campus was simply beautiful. (It was in the Yosemite School District... so yeah.) But it's too far away and there's no jobs around there. Pity.
Thanks again for the information. Reading this gave me some ideas for a starting point, at least.
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- "Forbidden Tales: Sword" by Da Chen - Children's book, kung fu novel. Our heroine doesn't receive the traditional visit from the village match-maker on her fifteenth birthday. Instead her mother lays on her the task to find the boy she has already been betrothed to as well as avenge the evil emperor who killed her father. She decides to go do the avenging first, then worry about the boy. She finds him in the city of the evil emperor - after she challenges him to a kung fu duel and they beat the tar out of each other.
- "Dragondoom" by Dennis L. McKiernan. I have no idea if this is even in print. High fantasy. Slaying of dragons. Romance between a dwarf and a human. Them being thrown together at all comes about by them going on individual quests to slay the dragon in order to prevent their people fighting a bloody war; they then cross paths and eventually wind up (reluctantly) working together. The romance is good, the action is better, and it's a hell of a story. One of his best, and one of his few stand-alones.
- "Rampant" by Diana Peterfreund. YA. Unicorns come back. Unicorns are deadly poisonous, territorial, and really don't like humans. It's up to our heroine and other virginal female descendants of Alexander the Great to deal with them.
- "Rosemary and Rue" by Seanan McGuire. Urban paranormal. Changeling October Daye is geased to solve the murder of one of her very good friends (by said very good friend as she was dying). This takes her venturing through all the Faerie fiefs around San Francisco Bay and gets the crap beat out of her a lot.
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*sprinkles some inspiration*
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HOWEVER! If you could stomach some of my WRITING stuff, that would be pretty cool. But it's mostly Mai/Zuko, and I know you don't like I pairing (which I don't mind, actually. I used to be pissy about people not like that ship, but I actually see how it's an acquired taste...).
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The moral of the story is that I'm highly shy and probably would be crushed if you beta'ed my story and hated it ;.;, especially since you just totally made my shitty day with your nice comment about my writing.
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Yeah, I can't say there's too much of a rhyme or reason to the reason I like or don't like ships. I like Zuko with Katara and Toph (and Jin, in a sweet sad way). And I like Mai with Sokka and Jet... See? No reason for it. Avatar is so strange for me, because usually I just ship one pairing and don't really care to experiment with the rest. For instance, in Naruto I ship Kakashi/Iruka... and that's it. Everyone else could stay single for all I care. lol.
Anyway, girl you are too careful of a writer to put out crap! But I think since you're in the 'discovery' part of your fic when you're still writing it, you should keep it to yourself. Only because it give me hives when I have to show people writing when I'm half done. lol. But when it's done I truly wanna read through it, if you're okay. Just because I know you're a good writer and if anyone can make me appreciate Maiko, it's you! :D
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*blushes and pokes index fingers together* I try to be careful, but I know I make mistakes, uh, especially since I'm too shy to use a beta for ANY of my work....*is not smart*
Um. So...uh. Yeah. That would be...really nice if you could help me...once I get the first draft typed up, that is...but only if you want to, I don't want to make you ready mushy crap that you would hate....x.x
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what if I draw stuff for you? :D
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