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[Jan. 26th, 2012|09:53 pm] |
You know, I should actually update you on what I've been up to. I don't have much time to do so, because I took on too much (I know, be surprised), but I do care about you guys and want you to know how I'm doing. Also I keep forgetting to tell ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.2) celli two of the things I've been up to and I bet she'll think they're cool.
You will understand why I have been so absent when I explain, too. :D
1. My dance teacher / dance company leader taught at a dance studio that has since closed. She decided to open her own studio, which I thought was awesome, and as the resident unemployed person, I did a lot of the legwork involved. I researched incorporating it as a nonprofit, wrote the Articles of Incorporation and am one of its incorporators; I also did things like sand the floor, wash the fireplace, etc. I'm serving as its treasurer, which means I am going to be responsible for handling its finances. We opened January 15th. I would link to the site but one of my jobs within the next week is to reorganize it and add new content.
2. I'm still part of the dance company. We meet Tuesday evenings, and we'll be performing next (I think) Saturday, February 11 at the Saloon for SlutFreeze 2012-- a benefit for SlutWalk, which is basically a new iteration of Take Back The Night. Details are here if you're interested.
3. I'm part of a women's choir that is pretty awesome. We meet every Wednesday evening, and I made some really cool friends through it. I guess I made friends with mendeia through the awesome band that I'm still in (and the mysterious fifth member has returned, which i am still really not used to!) We have a concert coming up on... February 4. Details are here if you're interested.
4. I'm applying to business schools still. I already applied for my top-choice school and figure it is very unlikely I'll get in. I have two deadlines coming up in the next week. I am not really happy with any of the essays I've written.
5. I have two articles to write for China Insight by yesterday. I am done with 1.2 of them.
6. I am taking Statistics and Accounting classes. I really wish I weren't so busy right now, because they are REALLY COOL. I like math. I had forgotten that before I started studying for the GMAT, because I associated it so strongly with failure. I like knowing how to organize things so they make sense, which is a lot of what accounting seems to be about so far. I have Statistics homework due by tomorrow.
Those are all the really interesting things I've been up to. Which, actually, feels a little better, because it looks like only six things the way I organized it, even if some numbers include multiple things.
I also have some absolute heroes who helped me so much with this application process and I want to do proper nice things for them. I cannot wait until a week from now, when most of this pressure is off. |
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[Jan. 26th, 2012|09:25 pm] |
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I was discussing old Halloween costumes with sineala (because I have nail polish that makes me feel like I'm Data from TNG). The only thing I ever went as twice for Halloween was 'Dorkwoman,' in I think the second and third grade. 'Dorkwoman' was a bunch of bits from the costumes I'd worn for the previous several years, all tacked together in a random, unexpected, and kind of bizarre configuration that didn't make much sense to anyone who wasn't me. I am not completely sure it made sense even to me.
Only right at this moment did I realize how apt a metaphor that costume is for me and my mind. |
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[Dec. 21st, 2011|04:26 pm] |
Thank you all for the good math vibes. They put me in the 71st percentile for math, which gives me an overall score of 740 / 800, which puts me in the 97th percentile of test-takers.
I AM PRETTY DAMN HAPPY ABOUT THIS. |
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[Dec. 20th, 2011|10:32 pm] |
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GMAT (like the SAT, but for business school) tomorrow at 11:15 AM. Send me good-math-vibes! |
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[Nov. 21st, 2011|09:58 pm] |
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Lovely Yuletide author! I will be putting up a letter in the next day or so here, so don't worry about the fact that I have specified nothing at all. |
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[Nov. 18th, 2011|03:37 pm] |
Back from Chicago. It was thrilling to FINALLY meet celli, awesome to get to meet savvierthanu, and wonderful to see murasakisilver again. Also, Chicago-area people who like food, Taste of Heaven's lemon meringue cupcake is amazing, and Turkish Cuisine's food is really, really yummy. (They have bellydancers Fridays and Saturdays, apparently!) Also also, predictably enough, I found a tea shop and bought a lot of stuff. I have problems. Severe problems. Delicious severe problems. Also to the power of 3, Megabus is a surprisingly pleasant way to travel.
How have you been? ♥ |
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| *facepalm* Making decisions is hard and I feel like a moron. |
[Oct. 5th, 2011|02:39 pm] |
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So three not-getting-me-a-new-job interviews later, I've decided I need to take a different and additional path to getting a new job besides "ask everyone you know if they know of opportunities and network madly" and "apply for every job you come across on Craigslist" and "put your resume all of the places."
Today I sketched out a list of all of the possibilities I could think of for getting on a good career path. And I began to see part of the problem.
Those of you who've been reading my LJ for a very long time (I'm looking at you, celli) might remember how ridiculously much I falter when choosing between equally good or bad options. When I had to choose between my 2 top-choice colleges, I freaked out so much that I actually sent acceptance letters and deposits to both of them. I laugh at myself in retrospect, but all decisions like that feel so IMPORTANT to me.
Right now, my friends, I have eight possibilities of what my next step should be. EIGHT. And all of them involve some level of me not knowing what to do, which is equally terrifying to me (look I have a lot of anxieties). So I... thought I might ask you for opinions and/or help. I want to take a positive next step and not sit here being indecisive some more, but there are eight options here, and I have NO IDEA what to do. Opine? Fill in the gaps to make any of these options less unknown and scary? Laugh at me? (OK, please don't laugh at me, I'm already stressing about what to do here.)
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[Oct. 4th, 2011|10:45 am] |
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3 interviews since giving notice, None of them worked out. V. sad.
Mostly, this is a Lishan Will Be Different Places notification. :D
I will be in the Raleigh/Durham area from 10/12 to 10/18. I am busy on 10/15 with some kind of wedding thing, but otherwise, if you want to hang out, let me know.
I will be at WindyCon in the Chicago area from 11/11 to 11/13, playing with my band.
I *might* be in Eau Claire 11/25 or 11/26. Not sure.
Let me know if you want to say hi! |
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[Apr. 2nd, 2011|04:22 pm] |
So I'm thrilled to shrapnel about this: now I can share Lead me to the Truth, the Sherlock fic that lavellington wrote, with you. I have, as the title indicates, a deep and probably inappropriate level of investment in this story since I betaed in-depth for like a week, but I did that because I love it so freaking much. It's packed with gorgeously subtle metaphor and dialogue so spot-on that I was giggling practically any time anyone was talking. I am kind of insanely jealous that this is her fandom debut. If you're part of the fandom, read it. I promise you, you won't regret it.
I'm also kind of behind the times on reccing you the other awesome and gigantic Sherlock fic I did a lot of betaing for, because I have not been updating LJ hardly at all lately. You probably have already read it, because it's been a WIP for a while (it's finished now!) and Ivy Blossom is both an excellent writer and well-known in the fandom, but on the slim chance that you haven't, The Progress of Sherlock Holmes by ivyblossom is a Sherlock POV that really captures, for me, the way his mind works (and that's barely possible, just think of how sharp the man is). Ivy also interweaves her story with the Arthur Conan Doyle canon in intelligent, thoughtful, and creative ways: to find out how, read the story, I don't want to spoil it. Again, you won't regret it. |
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