brain dump
Mar. 7th, 2005 12:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesI did finally end up being productive yesterday, in that I got a lot of CLD stuff done. So now everything I have to hand in has parallel texts, and I don't feel like such a slacker. I didn't get any more case study done, but I can do some of that tonight. I'm debating whether it's going to be more work to fix the extremely rough draft I've got, or ignore it completely and start over. Starting over is sounding good.
Today has gotten off to a somewhat shaky start; a rather large and mostly-full bottle of shampoo fell off the shelf in the shower and landed right on the root of the nail of my left big toe. I don't think I'm going to lose the nail, but it wasn't the best way to start a Monday.
I did some thinking over the weekend about what I want and whether I can get there or not. What I want is to go back to Brighton and live on Union Street again, and have at least one steady source of income, and be able to do things I wouldn't have been able to do without this degree. Now what I need to do is get a timetable. If I know I'm leaving to go straight to a job, it'll probably be worth paying the penalty fees to break the lease here. I need to give the management 30 days' notice of intent to move, whenever I'm leaving and wherever I'm going. If I'm not leaving to go to a job, I'll probably stay until August, when the lease is up. People who get signing bonuses probably have less of this stuff to worry about, but I'm in the wrong industry for that unless I'm REALLY in demand, which I'm not seeing evidence of. In any case, I have to be employed, doing something I can live on, by November, which is when all my loans start coming due again.
I'd really like to get to the Cape for at least a weekend this summer, and I don't particularly want to spend another birthday out here by myself. So that means I have to get out of here by early July. Which means I have to give notice by early June, which means I have to get a driver's license between now and then if I'm going to do that out here. Which means I have to go tomorrow and start getting a learner's permit, providing I can do it tomorrow what with the project management meeting. It would also help if I knew who I could get to help me move out; my father has offered to come out here and drive trucks, but he's not moving any more furniture, he says. (I don't blame him, either.) Unfortunately I won't know who until I know when, and I won't know when until I know what I'm moving for.
So what it boils down to is, at least I know what I want even if I don't know what schedule it's on. If I know what I want, I can start to go about making it happen. That makes me feel somewhat better.
Today has gotten off to a somewhat shaky start; a rather large and mostly-full bottle of shampoo fell off the shelf in the shower and landed right on the root of the nail of my left big toe. I don't think I'm going to lose the nail, but it wasn't the best way to start a Monday.
I did some thinking over the weekend about what I want and whether I can get there or not. What I want is to go back to Brighton and live on Union Street again, and have at least one steady source of income, and be able to do things I wouldn't have been able to do without this degree. Now what I need to do is get a timetable. If I know I'm leaving to go straight to a job, it'll probably be worth paying the penalty fees to break the lease here. I need to give the management 30 days' notice of intent to move, whenever I'm leaving and wherever I'm going. If I'm not leaving to go to a job, I'll probably stay until August, when the lease is up. People who get signing bonuses probably have less of this stuff to worry about, but I'm in the wrong industry for that unless I'm REALLY in demand, which I'm not seeing evidence of. In any case, I have to be employed, doing something I can live on, by November, which is when all my loans start coming due again.
I'd really like to get to the Cape for at least a weekend this summer, and I don't particularly want to spend another birthday out here by myself. So that means I have to get out of here by early July. Which means I have to give notice by early June, which means I have to get a driver's license between now and then if I'm going to do that out here. Which means I have to go tomorrow and start getting a learner's permit, providing I can do it tomorrow what with the project management meeting. It would also help if I knew who I could get to help me move out; my father has offered to come out here and drive trucks, but he's not moving any more furniture, he says. (I don't blame him, either.) Unfortunately I won't know who until I know when, and I won't know when until I know what I'm moving for.
So what it boils down to is, at least I know what I want even if I don't know what schedule it's on. If I know what I want, I can start to go about making it happen. That makes me feel somewhat better.
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Date: 2005-03-07 10:41 am (UTC)BTW, I just got together the last things for your care package. Sorry its been taking me a while. I've just been busy. But I think you'll like this one.