Anyhow, my job has been excellent, though lacking hours enough to provide more than gas and bill money at the moment. At least it's something, and there are the added perks of human interaction (with interesting and nice humans, no less) and a reason to get off my ass and do something. It is in no way a permanent solution to my career woes however. I'm growing more certain that a library science degree will be for me. We actually had a library science student come into the store yesterday doing research on the differences in costs/risks/services of libraries and commercial bookstores, and it's a shame that I will probably not get a chance to read the resulting paper.
The major hurdle to a masters at the moment is the GRE. Taking it will not be an issue, but I've been trying to get the UH financial aid office to contact me about a fee voucher and they have been dead silent. If I get nothing from them by march I suppose I will just shrug and pay the 160 dollars. The price tag isn't too awful for me, but it was still a surprise. For people who have not been able to rely on the support of parents an entry fee that steep on a test that important has got to suck.
I am almost done with Les Mis. It will be almost certainly finished by the end of this month, and then I will be reading Infinite Jest. The amount of reading I have been doing this year has been pretty steady, but I have failed ten times over to write with any consistency. I find myself again wondering if abstinence from the computer might fix that, but I don't think I have that sort of will power.
I have however developed a semi successful method for getting things done. I've set up a few school-like periods where the 'class' is something like 'clean' or 'write' or 'study language'. So far, only the 'clean' period has gotten me to do any work. The other too are too early in the day or something, or I'm just too lazy, and artificial deadlines or schedules have never worked for me.
The first project successfully completed during 'clean' class has been a sorting of 10+ boxes that came with us when we moved 8 years go, and have not been touched since. Half of it was children's books, and the other half was a combination of trash and yarn.
This mess was reduced to 4 or so boxes, 3 of which are books that I'm going to sell off to make room. The living room there is now completely clean and there is actually some walking space in the dining room now. My room remains a disaster area, but that's next on the hitlist.
It snowed a decent amount today, and I got my first exercise in a good while by helping shovel the sidewalk. We live in a corner house with a good deal of sidewalk, so the work lasted most of the day. It felt nice to exert some energy though. I really need to do that more often...
Afterwards we had hot tea and nabe, which is basically a pot of boiling water plus whatever you care to throw in. Mine was full of greens, fishballs, and delicious mushrooms.
This huge thing is cut up into slices and and cooked until chewy. It's slightly sweet, and extremely delicious.
This post doesn't begin to cover what's been going on for the past month (a good thing; this means that things have actually been going on) but it's an update none the less.
Observation of the day: One of the most commonly stolen items in BnN is the Bible or its accessories.
Music of the day: Coheed and Cambria - Welcome Home. I can't figure out if I like these guys or not. Epic voice, but I can't hear any of the lyrics, and there's not much to the instrumentals at all. It verges on pop.
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