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Your mercy shine.
I'd forgotten how nice it is to have a computer without mouse issues - my father's old laptop doesn't have them, and my brother's letting me borrow his old USB mouse - to the point where I give in to the reflexes I developed to get around the mouse/keyboard issues that developed since last July. Maybe I shouldn't have waited so long for a new computer.
My grandmother's still looking for a place to take me for my birthday dinner Thursday night. There's a significant number of upscale restaurants in Sacramento, which makes sense as it's the state capital, but I want to tell everyone to wait and take me to a sushi bar in San Francisco a couple of days later.
Tomorrow, to get some work done, I'm going to the library on campus and won't be taking the laptop with me. I can work on two out of three outstanding assignments while I'm there, not counting the potential time to sort out how to figure out what I'll be doing with myself come August.
A fair number of people in my program and graduating class have jobs lined up already, in various capacities, positions, and locations, with most of them being full-time. There's some advocacy for looking for internships to give me still more experience before looking for something full-time, and I can see the merit in that, but it's very easy for me to feel like things are passing me by if I don't try to dive into the fathoms.
What I'd like is a job where I don't have take-home work, at least nothing much beyond the paperwork associated with being a financially independent adult living in the United States. I've wanted that sort of thing for years, and I've been saying I'd finally get the chance to do some real personal writing if that were the case. But given the job listings I glanced at today, I doubt that'll be the case. If I knew that to be true, I'd find ways to work with that, but right now, it's that much more uncertainty.
My grandmother's still looking for a place to take me for my birthday dinner Thursday night. There's a significant number of upscale restaurants in Sacramento, which makes sense as it's the state capital, but I want to tell everyone to wait and take me to a sushi bar in San Francisco a couple of days later.
Tomorrow, to get some work done, I'm going to the library on campus and won't be taking the laptop with me. I can work on two out of three outstanding assignments while I'm there, not counting the potential time to sort out how to figure out what I'll be doing with myself come August.
A fair number of people in my program and graduating class have jobs lined up already, in various capacities, positions, and locations, with most of them being full-time. There's some advocacy for looking for internships to give me still more experience before looking for something full-time, and I can see the merit in that, but it's very easy for me to feel like things are passing me by if I don't try to dive into the fathoms.
What I'd like is a job where I don't have take-home work, at least nothing much beyond the paperwork associated with being a financially independent adult living in the United States. I've wanted that sort of thing for years, and I've been saying I'd finally get the chance to do some real personal writing if that were the case. But given the job listings I glanced at today, I doubt that'll be the case. If I knew that to be true, I'd find ways to work with that, but right now, it's that much more uncertainty.
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Sacramento has upscale restaurants? Since when?
:D
(But seriously, I can't think of any of them. Not that we ever went to upscale places when I was a kid - our style was pretty much just Spaghetti Factory.)
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And second, if you are free, I would enjoy meeting you for dinner or tea when you're in SF.
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*sighs*
*reminds self that all discretionary income is currently earmarked for the Saddle Fund*