Blue Roses

Job crisis. Again. Do I ever not have one? It's a running theme this semester.

Bookstore just called to offer me a job, slightly pro-marijuana statements and all. <.g> Now the rub - I would prefer the ECE job which is better hours and better pay, but, obviously, I have not interviewed for it or been offered it. Do I accept this only to turn it down soon? I feel wretched doing that. Do I say no up front and potentially screw myself over?

Oh. Did I mention that I applied for an ECE position? Mornings, 4 days a week, $9 an hour, meshes perfectly with the pm preschool job I have. Much nicer than scattered bookstore hours at $6.50 an hour. I would love the ECE. I have previously worked in this ECE. But, I e-mailed my resume last night and woke up to an e-mail saying she would contact me shortly and I've been awake for a long long time now.

Advice? I have until 9 tonight.

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Well, I think I have a job again. I did a pseudo-interview type thing, and she finished it off with, "Well, as far as I'm concerned, you have the job." (She also already joined the chorus of, "Are you *sure you want to be a librarian?!") I'm going to observe tomorrow afternoon, figure out paperwork, and plan other observations before starting in January. It sounds like a fantastic job. Sadly it's been downgraded to three days a week, but that could bounce back up to five. It's at a local school where I worked a few years back (the summer Krissy was married, actually). I'm also going to apply to work at books a million a town over. Looking good.

I set up my own town in Sims last night. I called it Avonlea, although it's going to be a collision of fandoms. I love the area I set it in, but it's so hilly and bumpy!! I keep leveling everything, and there are stairs everywhere. LOL I made two families so far - Cuthberts (Marilla, Matthew, Bertha and teen Anne) and Blythes (John, teen Gilbert and teen Diana). I wanna see if I can get Anne and Gil in love again. <.g> They wouldn't let me make the Cuthberts without an adult to be Anne's parent, so I guess Bertha will have to move out somewhere. I'll call her house Heaven. LOL

I also played some of my original town, with Rilla and Ginny. I totally remodeled their house for them to adopt, but I want them to have a girl, so I didn't save when little Glen came, but I hadn't saved for a goodly amount of time before then either, so I lost everything. Whoops. LOL! Oh, well, I'll just try again later, maybe do something better with their house. I wish they could adopt a teenager.

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I was all set to go to bed early last night, but got caught up making a wallpaper. It went through several versions, but this is my favorite. It's a screencap I took from Anne of Green Gables, colored, aged, etc etc.

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The quote is from Christina Rossetti's poem "In the Bleak Midwinter," or "A Christmas Carol." I've seen both titles attached.

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I keep getting tons and tons of spam comments, and they all wind up in my inbox. I think I'm going to have to stop comment notifications. I get so few comments anyway, and maybe it'll mean I check my page more often.

Kate, do you get these too?

I'm feeling all wintery and such. Much fun! I'm writing two challenges this year - sesa, as always, and then a WENN one for Jennie, Biz and Jess. Wish me luck. LOL

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West Wing was actually good tonight. Not great, mind you, not even close to S1 or S2, but I enjoyed it and will be coming back next week even though the previews look like crap.

Not much to say about the election. Pretty much everyone has already weighed in, and we'll leave it at, I agree with you, you and you, but not you or you. ::nods:: Or, to sum it up a bit more, disappointed, angry, afraid, determined.

I focused on the pretty today. Made a new wallpaper, like the daffodil one I made a few weeks back. Only...snowier. <.g> And perhaps too busy? But I kinda like it.

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Also played Sims last night. Lorelai, ironically enough, was playing golf with her boss. She decided to play to win, even though her boss the president really wanted to win, and he ended up promoting her to VP of the company. She went home, woo-hooed in celebration with Luke and is now pregnant. Luke is now a waiter. I don't think he's very happy. Perhaps he and Lorelai will both leave their jobs while the baby is growing up. They have quite a bundle saved up, and now Lorelai wants to sell some great book and art masterpieces.

I wonder if their house is a bit buggy - Rory does her homework every night and goes to school happy, but cannot rise above the C+ she entered school with. I know there's a problem with the dart board in the kitchen; they can't play anymore, just stand there sidewise, and I can't delete because it's "in use." I'll just have to block it.

Also fun is that Luke and Rina are always talking. In the way that Rina is always calling him on the phone. LOL Actually Lorelai and Rina really hit it off last night, too. What really amused me is that it didn't even occur to me that I was Rina and therefore I was practically stalking Luke, et al. <.g> Then I just started giggling.

Simmy pictures:

The Gilmore-Danes family. I cant find the shot, but now that they're married, he has his arms around her.

Some evening fun on the couch.

The happy day!

Luke napping while Rory reads next to him.

Lorelai's first day of pregnancy. She's yelling about how tired she is.

Yelling even more on day 2 about the tiredness. And she wasn't even that tired - barely in the yellow. <.g>

Lucy and Jem Blythe's wedding. See her bump? She was a few days pregnant with Gilbert, and ultimately was too tired to attend her own reception - she slept through the whole thing. And then decided she was too pregnant to go on the honeymoon, too, and went back to sleep. <.g>

Hit the bookstore this evening. Fuond the fourth book in the Thursday Next book series by Jasper Fforde. I am VERY excited. I also picked up an application to work there. The guy who waited on me was about my age, maybe a year or so older. He went to grab one from the older lady manager there. She promptly looked at me and said, "Are you of the age of majority?" I, eloquantly, said "Uh?" She clarified, "Are you old enough to work here?" "I'm 23!!" The guy's response? An immediate, "WHOA!!!" Yes, once again, Ipass for 16. Yay?

Also met with a librarian tonight to talk school and such. She was so nice! And after every other thing I said, she wuold repeat, "I can't believe how perfect you are for this job!" WHich is nice to hear after so many SLPs telling me I'll be a bad librarian. I'm gonna go down to her law library next week and poke around. And I think I'll ask her for a letter of rec - she seemed inclined to write one. So, yay.

So, my goals this coming week: do grad app, talk to letter writers, apply to bokstore job, find library job. Uh. Scary. Back to the pretty pictures.

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