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School

And with this 122nd blog post, you get a cookie!

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Just kidding. No cookies.

I can’t believe how hard I thought about a stinkin’ 2-page paper, and how hard I worked on it, and how much it ended up sucking. I’ll post it here, but you’ll be without the benefit of the critical essay I responded to, because you can’t find it online, and you’d have to go to a library, which I’m pretty sure you’re not going to do, and I’m not about to get arrested for showing you a literary critical response that is all licensed and crap that you’re not supposed to find on the internet.

And, incidentally, thank God for proofreading, because it just saved me from making an even more egregious grammatical error than I probably already inadvertantly made.

Jeez, talk much?

School

Update

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So for once I have almost as many saved posts as posted posts, and I’m working on perfecting them all to delight and entertain my audience of exactly two people. Luckily for me, those two people are very important to me so I strive to impress, if only to hear, “Hey Liz, nice blog the other day”.

It’s been a tumultous week at work, and I’m just praying for one, two, eight, twenty, thirty more weeks that can be as tumultous as they wanna be, so long as I keep a job through the upcoming semester.

I have an awesome new Emma post with VIDEO, I just have to get her parent’s permission to post their child on my blog. She’s awesome, and it’s possible (remotely, remotely possible) that some legitimate Hollywood person will stumble across my humble blog and offer her parents ten gazillion dollars for similar videos of Her Adorableness, so that’s an incentive.

I also have lots to say about the books I’ve been reading to get ahead of the upcoming semester, and how excited I am about the work I’ll be doing in my Senior Seminar class. Just trying to find the time to make it all entertaining enough to validate my presence in this little space.

One day at a time…

School, Work

Heaven Help Us

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One of the main reasons I’ve been neglecting you, Dear Blog, is because I haven’t felt like writing about what is going on at work. I’ve delayed the inevitable as long as possible, and it looks like I could lose my job at any possible moment. Yes, my time at the venerable institution is coming to an end. It could happen Monday, it could happen after Christmas, it could happen at the end of January. It’s coming, and I’m stressed, scared, and generally totally depressed.

http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/business/local/article/LAND17_20081216-213244/153129/

http://www.inman.com/news/2008/12/17/fidelity-closes-in-landamerica-deal

This deal could mean that many of my co-workers in the field could keep their jobs, so I’m in favor of it, but I don’t know how it will affect me and the other workers at the company “headquarters”. I guess this is one of those times where I wish I could support myself, husband, and cat with my meager blogging and sheer hope alone. The economy is bad and there are few jobs out there. And for every job out there exists hundreds of qualified applicants.

How does this affect me personally? Well, for one, I am not sure we can afford for me to go to school next semester. Which means that after a lackluster academic start in 1995, a failure and cry of “uncle” in 1999, finally going back and taking night classes (starting in Spring 2007) while working full time and maintaining a 3.83 average (12 classes – 10 A’s, 2 B’s) I might have gotten to my last 3 classes and have to stop. It’s infuriating, and I’m so discouraged that I don’t know what to do with myself. I feel like it would be selfish of me to try to allocate the meager funds we’ll have to my sizeable tuition when we could be, I don’t know, paying rent? Paying off debt? The possibility of finding something that would pay enough, be flexible to let me take a 4:00 class on Mondays and Wednesdays, and that would be easy enough for me to get the hang of without concentrating 100% is darn near impossible. I try to have a que sera sera kind of attitude, but I’m pretty down in the dumps right now.

So. Cherry holiday blog? No. That means I HAVE to blog tomorrow, to make up for it.