Speaking of job stuff, that was one of the good things about this week: it's looking like I might actually have a job soon. Or possibly two. I've applied to work a temp job in the SVU bookstore for exam week, and I'm also in the process of filling out the forms to work at Camp Shenandoah over the summer. All I need now is one more reference to put on there and the forms will be done, so I'll be able to scan them in up at the library and then send them over to the guy who's responsible for doing the hiring. I already had a phone interview about the job last week, and was told at the time that my chances of getting the job were probably upward of 80%... hopefully that holds up and I'll actually have something to do this summer. There's also this weird one involving post-office boxes that I was thinking of applying for, but if I get the Camp Shenandoah job *OR* the bookstore job it'll be hard to do that one (I've already seen what the schedule for it looks like, and there'd be at least a couple of days I'd have to do that which would overlap with the bookstore job, and one that would overlap with Camp Shenandoah.) And it also wouldn't pay nearly as much as either of the other two, especially not Camp Shenandoah--the absolute max I'm looking at from the post-office box thing would be less than $200, and just one week at Camp Shenandoah would pay that much or more. Still, it's nice to actually have a real chance of getting a job for once, and also to have multiple options in case one doesn't work out... seems like that hasn't really happened before.
I've also continued selling stuff on eBay, which made enough for me to cover my electric bill (and a trip to Wal-Mart) without any difficulty last month and will hopefully end up making enough for me to pay May's rent + April and May's electric bills once those come around. Plus, if I sell off most of my old video games I'll have some spare boxes to bring food and such home with me, assuming that I'll still have any food left over by the time I get around to moving out. I'll definitely have other stuff that will need to be in a box of some sort, though, so there's always that even if there's not much left of my food supply by the time graduation and such is done and I'm about to leave.
I've now (finally) started working on the little paintings that I'm planning on giving to my graduating-or-otherwise-leaving-SVU friends. Well, so far I've only actually started on one of them, but that one is well on its way to being done (the next time I actually sit down and paint, I'll probably end up finishing it.) I've had a few responses from people as to what they'd like me to paint (two actually gave suggestions, and a few others responded in a more "paint me something, I don't care what it is!" kind of way), and a few other people have been put on the "I need to paint something for this person" list even though I've gotten no response from them as to what they'd like to see. I'm kind of sad that I haven't heard from more people about what they'd like me to paint for them, but eh, I figure that some of them just haven't seen the announcements since they're not on Facebook so often. Plus, if someone doesn't give me a suggestion I can always just make something up off the top of my head. It's usually worked out okay in the past (...well... except for the times when I've just had too many "draw whatever/no request" things to get done and in the end only got half of them done. >_<)
And it seems my "ask people on dates shortly after getting the thought" plan (as opposed to the usual "wait around forever and let things fester before ever saying anything") that I've had during the past month or so continues to actually work out pretty well: I went on a maybe-this-was-a-date this weekend! Heh. I say it that way, of course, because I'm not entirely sure whether the other person involved really saw it as a date or not. I mean, it pretty much fit the usual definition for what makes something a "date" (just two people, both single as far as I'm aware, eating or talking or doing other fun stuff together, on a day/time that they planned out ahead of time, because one of them asked the other)... but that's one of those things that's always kind of unclear when you're not a mind-reader. But yeah... I had some ravioli in my fridge that I wanted to eat before it went bad, and since it was too much for one person to eat (...though, as I later found out, not too much that one person can't eat two-thirds of it... XD) I figured I'd ask someone to come over and help me eat it. The original day I had planned for turned out to not be the best day for her, so we had to reschedule to the next day, but after that one little hiccup was sorted out it turned out pretty well. She came over, I cooked ravioli, we both ate and talked and goofed off and then afterward we played Scrabble for a bit and then I walked her home. Definitely was a lot better than my usual Sunday night plans, which are "sit at home alone doing nothing of any real importance." XD
Speaking of Sunday, earlier on that day I attempted to go to one of the Mormons' General Conference sessions (as usual, partly just to see what was going on and partly to see friends and have a chance to sit and draw random stuff--it seems like I always end up drawing some interesting things when I bring a notebook along to stuff like that), but... that didn't work so well. I got there 15-20 minutes early, hoping to be able to get a decent seat, but found that the place was basically abandoned. There were literally 5 or 6 people sitting down when I got there, none of which I knew very well (or at all, in most cases) and definitely not anyone I knew well enough to actually sit with. I guess those people must have all stayed home and watched it on their computers. I waited around until it was 30 seconds away from starting, but saw basically nobody that I knew that well show up (a few friends were there, but none that I know well enough to be really comfortable sitting next to... a crowd-freakout was likely to happen if I attempted to stay), so I ended up leaving. Probably a good decision, since I still had to clean some things up around the house and staying somewhere that was likely to trigger a crowd-freakout is always a bad idea. I'm just kind of glad I managed to get out before a freakout actually happened, rather than freaking out and then deciding to leave; things tend to not go so well when I do them in that order. It also gave me some extra time to finish up a new chapter of Fangirl Extermination Squad, which got done surprisingly fast considering that I just finished the last chapter of that story this past Wednesday. I guess it's a bit easier to finish them up when they're directly continuing from the previous chapter, so there's a lot less "okay, time to figure out what the heck's supposed to be happening here" work and more of just getting all the ideas that wouldn't quite fit into the previous chapter to come together in this one.
I also finally got around to trying to cook using these frozen mixed veggies (peppers, onions, and celery) that I picked up during one of my recent Wal-Mart trips. And... it actually turned out really well! I had been worried that it would take too long for the frozen veggies to thaw out and it would make it hard to get everything cooked right, but I just tossed a bunch of them into the skillet and stirred them around for a couple minutes before putting the noodles (and some garlic I had chopped up) in with them and everything turned out pretty well. Yet another thing I can do with my stir-fry noodles now. Though, I only have one more pack of noodles and a lot of veggies still left... I guess I could also use them for those chicken fajitas, whenever I end up getting around to making them? Seems like a good mix of veggies to go in a fajita to me, anyway, especially with the shredded lettuce added in with them. Only problem is... like the ravioli, the chicken for the fajitas is in a "too much for one person" package (and unlike the ravioli, it's frozen right now and needs to be thawed before I can use it... and probably won't re-freeze well, according to people who have experience with freezing/thawing chicken.) So I'd have to find someone to help me eat it when I do decide to cook it, or I'd end up wasting at least some of it (I don't know how long it'd keep after being cooked, and already-cooked chicken + refrigeration is a baaaaad combination most of the time anyway, so... yeah, I'd have to get someone to help me eat it.)
I've also had a few weird dreams lately. I've posted most of them on Facebook, so most of the people reading this (who aren't Russian spambots) have probably already seen most of these... but eh, here they are anyway:
March 30th
Batman and Bane were in this forested area (...I think it looked like the part of Twilight Town outside where the old mansion is) fighting, and there was this old Model T type car which they would pick up and try to throw at each other or pin the other underneath. That's about all I remember.
March 31st
Two dreams, both randomly involving the luchador El Santo for some reason. In the first one, I was in a house that was sort of like a combination of Mom's house and my apartment; there was one spot where someone had drawn El Santo on the wall in pencil, and I was worried that I'd get in trouble so I peeled the paint off of the wall in this spot (there was more paint underneath, so it wasn't *quite* as visible as the drawing was before.) I also duct-taped over a hole in the floor, for some reason.
Second dream was set up kind of like a video game. Started out with this guy getting out of bed and walking around, and at some point he found Santo's mask and put it on, which transforms him into Santo (even his facial features visible through the holes in the mask changed.) He was standing around a table talking to some other people after this point, and this really tall scrawny guy said something along the lines of "No hablo español. But it looks like you've turned into one o' them Mexican wrestlers!"
April 2nd
Vaguely remember at least part of a dream. It was Star Wars-based, but stuff happened differently; Luke was fighting Darth Vader for a while, but someone else ran in randomly and the Emperor got shoved into the hole early, so Vader wasn't half-dead by the time it happened. Palpatine also had shown off his own red lightsaber earlier on, unlike in the actual Return of the Jedi, but I can't remember why or whether he actually fought or not. Apparently Vader wouldn't stop fighting until there had been "4 people with lightsabers" dead, and then Luke pointed out that there HAD now that the Emperor was dead--I guess three of them were Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Palpatine but I have no idea who the fourth was. Luke also pointed out that Vader was now the boss of the entire Empire since the Emperor was dead, and that he could change things so it wasn't as bad. It looked like this was actually going to work out okay by the end of the dream.
Also remember fragments of another one where I went into this door to a part of SVU that apparently would only allow students to go in, avoiding some creepy guy who had been following me. Later on I found another area which had a slide going underground and into the basement of some place, which had become partly full of dead leaves so I had to scoot myself back out of it rather than sliding all the way down.
April 4th
Remember bits and pieces of two dreams. In one, I was walking around with a girl (...I think it may have been someone I know and like in real life, actually) and we were looking for a place to go and cuddle. We ended up having to leave one of the library mods for some reason and we went to the house which is now abandoned... only to find it very much NOT abandoned, and apparently home to three separate couples who were all sitting on the couch with the girl on the guy's lap. Me and her sat on the table, but I'm not sure if we were planning on actually staying and joining in on this weird mass-cuddle situation. It seemed like it was going to be too awkward for us to stay so we were going to head off somewhere else before too long.
In the other, I was playing some kind of Zelda-like video game which my sister apparently made, where one of the items you could get were Chiba Balls (which you picked up 4 at a time, like bombs in Zelda), but then when I went further in the game and was about to use the chiba Balls, things switched over to real-lifey mode and I was in this snowy parking lot, creeping up behind this tiny car. I opened the back door of it and looked inside to see three kids and a ton of snow (...inside the car??) and they were all sort of piled on each other in weird positions. I threw a Chiba Ball at them and ran (actually scudded) away from the car. While scudding across the snow-covered parking lot (this time on my belly like a penguin, rather than sort of... almost moonwalking? like before) I saw other people approaching, but I think I woke up before anything happened involving them.
No comments:
Post a Comment