Short RL update
Nov. 23rd, 2004 12:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
estepheiaFor once I don't have anything to whine about. I'm feeling good today.
-- today's dentist appointment was harmless. Yay. Last appointment is on thursday. today's dentist appointment was harmless. Yay. Last appointment is on thursday.
- went through my gran's stuff this weekend - had to take many breaks because even after two years I miss her frightfully. I found a book with about 15 hand-written pages that start "Dear Stephanie". She wrote down a few things about her childhood. Can't read it yet. I put it with a diary my mom wrote when I was two.
I also found postcards, some she received, some granny bought but never sent off. I will go through the postcards, maybe I'll just send out xmas cards this year.
- Spent hours cooking today (lasagne and canneloni) - a sure sign that I am feeling well. I have a sore wrist (caused by the sudden weather changes) and a sore shoulder (recurring problem), but I'm more concerned with my my body chemistry, and that seems much improved. No sudden bouts of depression or grief. *crosses fingers for the future* I never really know if I'm happy if I write, or if wirting successfully makes me happy (With a few outside forces thrown in, of course).
- My application for the writing workshop in January (we write a novel in one weekend) has been rejected. They had 15 places and 60 applicants. Fuck! I called them and smarmily tried to get them to put me on the replacement list. Keep your fingers crossed.
- I have to learn how to write a job application. All jobs I ever held in my life I received through friends or just by walking up to people and asking. I spent years selling comic books, of all things. Now I'd like a job in a bookstore, or even supermarket, but the odd thing is that I never ever wrote a cv or job application. *is embarrassed*
Too bad that my B.A. in German literature was never worth the paper it was written on, in spite the fact that I got one of the three highest grades in that year in all of London (yes, I know, I'm a show-off!). German's inherently distrust foreign degrees. LOL. Oh well, it's been ages, I wouldn't be able to get back into that frame of thinking anyway, so no regrets. I still have university friends, and I know that university life just isn't me.
- The weather outside is fab. I think I shall dig a few holes in the garden and bury a few bulbs after lunch.
-- today's dentist appointment was harmless. Yay. Last appointment is on thursday. today's dentist appointment was harmless. Yay. Last appointment is on thursday.
- went through my gran's stuff this weekend - had to take many breaks because even after two years I miss her frightfully. I found a book with about 15 hand-written pages that start "Dear Stephanie". She wrote down a few things about her childhood. Can't read it yet. I put it with a diary my mom wrote when I was two.
I also found postcards, some she received, some granny bought but never sent off. I will go through the postcards, maybe I'll just send out xmas cards this year.
- Spent hours cooking today (lasagne and canneloni) - a sure sign that I am feeling well. I have a sore wrist (caused by the sudden weather changes) and a sore shoulder (recurring problem), but I'm more concerned with my my body chemistry, and that seems much improved. No sudden bouts of depression or grief. *crosses fingers for the future* I never really know if I'm happy if I write, or if wirting successfully makes me happy (With a few outside forces thrown in, of course).
- My application for the writing workshop in January (we write a novel in one weekend) has been rejected. They had 15 places and 60 applicants. Fuck! I called them and smarmily tried to get them to put me on the replacement list. Keep your fingers crossed.
- I have to learn how to write a job application. All jobs I ever held in my life I received through friends or just by walking up to people and asking. I spent years selling comic books, of all things. Now I'd like a job in a bookstore, or even supermarket, but the odd thing is that I never ever wrote a cv or job application. *is embarrassed*
Too bad that my B.A. in German literature was never worth the paper it was written on, in spite the fact that I got one of the three highest grades in that year in all of London (yes, I know, I'm a show-off!). German's inherently distrust foreign degrees. LOL. Oh well, it's been ages, I wouldn't be able to get back into that frame of thinking anyway, so no regrets. I still have university friends, and I know that university life just isn't me.
- The weather outside is fab. I think I shall dig a few holes in the garden and bury a few bulbs after lunch.
