So I am once again on the job search.

Not much new to report aside from that. I'm living a bum's life currently, and that's only enjoyable for a few days, five at the most. Once you hit that second business week, it just starts feeling like "loser." May hit a Labor Ready one of these mornings, just to get something going on money-wise.

I'm cool, though, and life is still grand. It would just be nice to be able to fix the place where the gutter is a little chewed up, right?

Peace.

I graduated! Making the walk made a difference for me, so I'm glad I did it. I'm also glad I walked Winter Quarter, and not Spring, when commencement is outdoors at OSU's (in)famous football stadium. (The Horseshoe, or just "The 'Shoe," for those in the know.) Seating for 75,000 spectators and getting to sit in the June sun on the field for three hours? No thanks! Archie Griffin already begging us for money from the podium was bad enough.

But I did it! I fuckin' did it, and almost a week later it still is just starting to settle in.

Now, for the part where the rubber meets road and I find a "real" job. Wish me luck! Love you all!

Wow, I needed to update badly.

I graduate this quarter. Ideally. As long as I pass everything. Honestly, I probably only need to pass ASL. I think my "final" will be signing "Goodnight, Moon" to my class, which makes my hands shake a little bit. (I've always been able to bullshit/talk through "hands shaking" in public speaking, but for ASL, your hands are your bullshit/talking in public speaking. We'll see. It's pretty easy to memorize, if nothing else.

Bwah. So, I graduate this quarter and I have made fewer inroads on jobs than I should have by now. I haven't even updated my resume after having had a class that included a section on good resume updates. Heh heh. My internship was really cool, though. I'm pretty happy about that.

Ooh. I need to update my profile sentence. We got the dishwasher fixed.

It's almost Xmas! WAHOO!!

I'm actually very happy this year at this time. I'm usually not depressed, but I almost always feel like I just want the year to be over with. I'm very happy with this time of year this year, and I'm thankful.

Hope the rest of you have a happy holiday season filled with good cheer.

School is going well so far, but I still can't wait for it to be over. Or can I? The Ohio job market is... not robust.

My internship this quarter is exciting so far. On I'm on a script team for a Dr. MLK Jr. Day celebration that Columbus has held every year for the better part of two decades. We're exploring lesser-known words of Dr. King and trying our best to surprise the audience and make them think about the universality of Dr. King's legacy.

Thanks to all for the well wishes on my b-day. I was really cooled on even caring about this one (35) until I started getting all the messages, texts, and calls. Thanks a lot, from my closest IRL friend to my newest SG buddy.

Summer job is sadly now over, and only a scant few weeks until school is back in session. I am probably less than a year away from "needing" to become a Real-Life Grown-Up.

I am amazed at how much I am looking forward to the summer job. I think the combination of work and school during the school quarters (I'm not taking classes over summer) is probably a big factor, but considering the sweat and dirt involved, it's a little amazing to me how much I'm anticipating the labor.

It probably is the same part of my personality that is garnering sincere satisfaction from serving the love of my life by helping maintain and improve the yard and the flower beds. It's exactly the same kind of work I abhorred as a teenager, and I certainly love my parents very much. It is an interesting, though perhaps pedestrian, underlining of the difference between philos and eros.

I hope anyone reading this has a wonderful, fascinating summer.

Mid-quarter finds me happy. Mid-quarter is a bit of a stretch, however. I still have way too many weeks before my next paycheck, that's for certain.

Hope you are all well in SG land.

The cats are going crazy because the birds outside seem firmly convinced that it's spring. Dumb, dumb birds.

Wowee...

Right now I'm looking at SG next to my girl who is playing Fallout II. (Not III)

...while we are listening to Mary Poppins, which is playing on a VCR (!) behind us.

I love my life. I just need this quarter to be over. This scum-suckin' video project. Ugh.