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shadowkatFirst off - FL stuff. HAPPY BIRTHDAY WISHES TO THE EVER LOVELY ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rahael!! (I pray it was a good one!) Also congratulations to fresne for the new job! (Way to go!), and congrats to masqthephlsphr for her new nephew!
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Job Interviewing feels a bit like doing the tango except with an unpredictable partner on a tight-rope, or through land-mines.
Well, I survived the interview dance I went through last week and this week. Exhausted. Demoralized. Anxious. Fearful. All emotions that come to mind. Along with quite a bit of frustration. Let's see five interviews at four different places for three different jobs. Want to see how broad the gap is between some of these jobs? One was for an administrative assistant handling workload for five managers, and one was overseeing/managing administrative assistants and paralegals. Sort of like doing the hokey-pokey one day and the tango the next. Much prefer the tango, but I'd take whatever I can get at this point. Afraid to talk about it in too much depth - since it could jinx me. Also none of these interviews will lead to me being hired - if I pass this stage, I get to go on and do more interviews. Two of which are in another state and require a three hour train ride, six hour round trip.
If you want to lose weight? Try unemployment. Nothing like the stress of unemployment and no stable financial support to make one drop pounds or for that matter look at food and other comforts such as alcohol as money going down a drain. Only one problem with this - if I lose 10 more pounds I won't be able to fit into those two suits I bought two weeks ago and that would be a *very* bad thing. Not that I'm not eating, I am, I just am eating less. Also practically no alcohol - costs money and interfers with "tremor" meds. (I make a few exceptions - a drink socially with friends but very few.) Amazing how many calories are in alcohol.
At any rate, fear not...I'm hanging in there. Just tired.
Emotionally, physically and mentally. One of those interviews was 3 and 1/2 hours, or 11 am to 2:30 pm (no break for lunch - hence the losing weight bit).
Partly to amuse myself and partly out of curiousity, I found the fan fic hate site, everyone's been going on about. LOL! This site reminded me of a scene in an old episode of the West Wing that I watched on Monday night at 7pm on Bravo. (I'd been watching Deep Space 9 reruns at that time period, but Spike TV stopped showing them, so I'm checking out West Wing episodes - most of which I missed due to watching Angel instead.) This episode had the Deputy Chief of Staff discover a website devoted solely to him, complete with posting board. Donna, his assistant, warns him not to post on the board or look at the site. She notes that these people are hysterical and not in a good way. When he asks why? She says :"no one knows, we think they just went off their meds". He doesn't believe her and engages and well if you want to know what happened? Just visit fan fic hate or any fanboard during a flame war. When Josh starts getting worked up over what these people are saying about him and his work - Donna turns to him and states: "Josh, you are going around the bend...". I could not stop laughing for five minutes (and part of it was at myself). Seriously, the internet is a funky place. Sort of like seeing all humanity's "intellectual"/"mental" strengths, weakenesses, and fatal flaws displayed in living color.
Had a lovely lunch last Friday withherselfnyc. She is as lovely in person as on her livejournal. And kindly bought me lunch, a favor I hope to repay someday. While we may not share all the same tastes in literature, not a huge fan of Russian lit, we did share our feelings on 911 which affected us both in a major way and brought us both to Buffyfandom. 911 changed who I am and my life. It is a day I cannot forget or look back on with anything less than abject horror. Nor is it a day I can write about without pain. Suffice it to say, part of me died on that day and it's a part I still miss.
Moving a little bit more away from the BTVS/ATS fandom. No more essays and I don't foresee myself writing any more fic or finishing that evil fanfic I started. I'm focusing my attention more and more on other things right now. New horizons. The fandom helped me deal with a difficult time in my life and I treasure the people I met through it, but it's time for me at least to begin to move away from it and move on to other interests.
My current obsession/interest is Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles . Amazing series of novels. Not *genre*. These are historical novels that take place in 1500s Scotland when Mary Queen of Scots was 8 years old. During the time of Edward, Bloody Queen Mary, and Sulieman the Manificent. The hero is possibly the most fascinating, complex hero I've read or seen in a while. The writer does what many writers fail to do - she keeps him mysterious at times, she shows you who he is through others points of view. He remains on the periphery - where you always want more. I think that was the problem I had with Angel The Series and actually most TV series with leads, including Harry Potter, - I got too much Angel by the time I'd entered the third season of the series -the lead character no longer fascinated me, no longer challenged my intellect. I knew everything there was to know and was sort of bored with him. Nothing he did surprised me. While the supporting characters kept more on the periphery - continued to fascinate, thrill and surprise me. (Hence the reason I've never read much fanfic focusing on Angel or for that matter felt the need to write essays analyzing him (the show yes, Angel? Not so much) - there wasn't anything to reveal about the character in my point of view that I hadn't already seen on-screen.) This is why I love Dunnett - she handles this juggling act, she keeps your attention, no one is predictable, and all her characters feel fully developed.
rahael!! (I pray it was a good one!) Also congratulations to fresne for the new job! (Way to go!), and congrats to masqthephlsphr for her new nephew! *****************
Job Interviewing feels a bit like doing the tango except with an unpredictable partner on a tight-rope, or through land-mines.
Well, I survived the interview dance I went through last week and this week. Exhausted. Demoralized. Anxious. Fearful. All emotions that come to mind. Along with quite a bit of frustration. Let's see five interviews at four different places for three different jobs. Want to see how broad the gap is between some of these jobs? One was for an administrative assistant handling workload for five managers, and one was overseeing/managing administrative assistants and paralegals. Sort of like doing the hokey-pokey one day and the tango the next. Much prefer the tango, but I'd take whatever I can get at this point. Afraid to talk about it in too much depth - since it could jinx me. Also none of these interviews will lead to me being hired - if I pass this stage, I get to go on and do more interviews. Two of which are in another state and require a three hour train ride, six hour round trip.
If you want to lose weight? Try unemployment. Nothing like the stress of unemployment and no stable financial support to make one drop pounds or for that matter look at food and other comforts such as alcohol as money going down a drain. Only one problem with this - if I lose 10 more pounds I won't be able to fit into those two suits I bought two weeks ago and that would be a *very* bad thing. Not that I'm not eating, I am, I just am eating less. Also practically no alcohol - costs money and interfers with "tremor" meds. (I make a few exceptions - a drink socially with friends but very few.) Amazing how many calories are in alcohol.
At any rate, fear not...I'm hanging in there. Just tired.
Emotionally, physically and mentally. One of those interviews was 3 and 1/2 hours, or 11 am to 2:30 pm (no break for lunch - hence the losing weight bit).
Partly to amuse myself and partly out of curiousity, I found the fan fic hate site, everyone's been going on about. LOL! This site reminded me of a scene in an old episode of the West Wing that I watched on Monday night at 7pm on Bravo. (I'd been watching Deep Space 9 reruns at that time period, but Spike TV stopped showing them, so I'm checking out West Wing episodes - most of which I missed due to watching Angel instead.) This episode had the Deputy Chief of Staff discover a website devoted solely to him, complete with posting board. Donna, his assistant, warns him not to post on the board or look at the site. She notes that these people are hysterical and not in a good way. When he asks why? She says :"no one knows, we think they just went off their meds". He doesn't believe her and engages and well if you want to know what happened? Just visit fan fic hate or any fanboard during a flame war. When Josh starts getting worked up over what these people are saying about him and his work - Donna turns to him and states: "Josh, you are going around the bend...". I could not stop laughing for five minutes (and part of it was at myself). Seriously, the internet is a funky place. Sort of like seeing all humanity's "intellectual"/"mental" strengths, weakenesses, and fatal flaws displayed in living color.
Had a lovely lunch last Friday with
herselfnyc. She is as lovely in person as on her livejournal. And kindly bought me lunch, a favor I hope to repay someday. While we may not share all the same tastes in literature, not a huge fan of Russian lit, we did share our feelings on 911 which affected us both in a major way and brought us both to Buffyfandom. 911 changed who I am and my life. It is a day I cannot forget or look back on with anything less than abject horror. Nor is it a day I can write about without pain. Suffice it to say, part of me died on that day and it's a part I still miss.Moving a little bit more away from the BTVS/ATS fandom. No more essays and I don't foresee myself writing any more fic or finishing that evil fanfic I started. I'm focusing my attention more and more on other things right now. New horizons. The fandom helped me deal with a difficult time in my life and I treasure the people I met through it, but it's time for me at least to begin to move away from it and move on to other interests.
My current obsession/interest is Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles . Amazing series of novels. Not *genre*. These are historical novels that take place in 1500s Scotland when Mary Queen of Scots was 8 years old. During the time of Edward, Bloody Queen Mary, and Sulieman the Manificent. The hero is possibly the most fascinating, complex hero I've read or seen in a while. The writer does what many writers fail to do - she keeps him mysterious at times, she shows you who he is through others points of view. He remains on the periphery - where you always want more. I think that was the problem I had with Angel The Series and actually most TV series with leads, including Harry Potter, - I got too much Angel by the time I'd entered the third season of the series -the lead character no longer fascinated me, no longer challenged my intellect. I knew everything there was to know and was sort of bored with him. Nothing he did surprised me. While the supporting characters kept more on the periphery - continued to fascinate, thrill and surprise me. (Hence the reason I've never read much fanfic focusing on Angel or for that matter felt the need to write essays analyzing him (the show yes, Angel? Not so much) - there wasn't anything to reveal about the character in my point of view that I hadn't already seen on-screen.) This is why I love Dunnett - she handles this juggling act, she keeps your attention, no one is predictable, and all her characters feel fully developed.
Re: Dunnett/BtVS discussion list
Date: 2004-06-17 03:49 pm (UTC)and in each instance the character was kept by the writer partly in the shadows. Oooh, I agree. More to be revealed and more to keep us fascinated and coming back for more. My want and wish at the end of any good tv-show, book, film, is that this world I have been introduced to shouldn't end. If I can say that, I am satisfied, but not really. Such frustration! LOL
Re: Lymond Chronicles
Date: 2004-06-18 08:36 am (UTC)It's a good idea to read them in order. There are so many important characters, besides Lymond, and complex plot developments to keep track of from book to book, it can be dizzying. However, it's worth the trouble because it's such a fascinating fictional world to be immersed in. There's also a Dunnett Companion book for historical references and translations of the polyglot Lymond's various tangential remarks in other languages.
When I finished the LC I didn't want it to end either! I've re-read all the books at least 2-3 times and there are always new things you find that you can't believe you missed the first time. Hell, folks on the Marzipan lists are constantly debating over certain plot points. Dunnett did not believe in coddling her readers. Even when asked point blank about something, she would always reply that the answer was in the books and it was up to the reader to figure it out. Thus, the endless debates online!
Enjoy!
punkinpuss
Re: Lymond Chronicles
Date: 2004-06-18 08:40 am (UTC)Diving into the Chronicles. Thank you both for convincing me to do so!