ACTUAL JOURNAL UPDATE
Aug. 11th, 2017 02:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
haemophilusA shitload of stuff has happened since I last posted here. It's almost head-spinning, which is kind of why I stopped posting. I've had the down time for sure at some points, but not really the emotional energy to go over all the shit that's been going on. Suffice it to say that we lost a car, my computer, my phone, and my dog's right eye within the span of about a month and a half. But we also gained a car, a new computer, a phone, a therapist, and a dog who looks like a pirate so - I guess it's alright. Plus I have had my job, my practicum, and I've been writing fic like a fiend. And I've made new friends online which has been really really fun. If you try hard and believe in yourself, you can make friends without using tumblr \o/ Plus I've stopped being so much of a hermit now - I go to a coffee shop to work almost every day. So I guess there's just been a lot of ups and downs, but my family is okay and I'm okay and so we keep going.
I am currently gearing up for the school year, which starts in two weeks. I can hardly believe I'm on year two of my master's degree. In September, I have been invited to speak at a conference across the country where I go to school online to discuss my practicum work. So I've been torn between scheduling meetings with stakeholders to read drafts and participate on the panel and booking my transportation. Which naturally is the cheapest for the people running the conference and the most inconvenient and annoying for me.
Me: Okay I'd like to fly out of an airport twenty minutes away and I don't really care how long the flight is, I just don't want to transport myself to the nearest city an hour and a half away and get on the plane there
Them: Okay so our most cost effective option is the really inconvenient one though where we make you travel for an hour and a half to the city, grab transport to the airport which you pay for yourself, and then fly for six hours to get here
Me: I will literally take a seven hour layover in Dallas over that
Them: So I'm putting you down for yes on our plan. Also when you leave us you're going to leave at 5:15 AM I hope that's ok.
SIGH. I mean it's an honor to be invited and everything but holy Christ I hate scheduling transportation.
Anyway, I really am loving the work that is getting me the invite. I've been in the process of networking with contacts from various stakeholder groups which is one of my favorite things to do. It always feels like putting a puzzle together, getting people to all participate in a thing. And sometimes you have to get friends of friends to do it or you call someone really obscure as a contact and they're like 'well I'm not doing that anymore but I can direct you to two people who might." Each time I grab a contact or, even better, when I grab someone who says 'yes' the rush is just amazing.
If anyone ever tells you that fandom participation is useless, this is a talent I learned that I had by participating in fandom. TAKE THAT, PEOPLE JUDGY OF HOBBYISTS.
In related news, with the help of friends I coordinated a Sunny rarepair prompt fest that turned out to be a success! Twelve works so far, and I'm hoping for more. But even if it just ends up being twelve - I'm floored. This fandom never ceases to surprise me.
I am currently gearing up for the school year, which starts in two weeks. I can hardly believe I'm on year two of my master's degree. In September, I have been invited to speak at a conference across the country where I go to school online to discuss my practicum work. So I've been torn between scheduling meetings with stakeholders to read drafts and participate on the panel and booking my transportation. Which naturally is the cheapest for the people running the conference and the most inconvenient and annoying for me.
Me: Okay I'd like to fly out of an airport twenty minutes away and I don't really care how long the flight is, I just don't want to transport myself to the nearest city an hour and a half away and get on the plane there
Them: Okay so our most cost effective option is the really inconvenient one though where we make you travel for an hour and a half to the city, grab transport to the airport which you pay for yourself, and then fly for six hours to get here
Me: I will literally take a seven hour layover in Dallas over that
Them: So I'm putting you down for yes on our plan. Also when you leave us you're going to leave at 5:15 AM I hope that's ok.
SIGH. I mean it's an honor to be invited and everything but holy Christ I hate scheduling transportation.
Anyway, I really am loving the work that is getting me the invite. I've been in the process of networking with contacts from various stakeholder groups which is one of my favorite things to do. It always feels like putting a puzzle together, getting people to all participate in a thing. And sometimes you have to get friends of friends to do it or you call someone really obscure as a contact and they're like 'well I'm not doing that anymore but I can direct you to two people who might." Each time I grab a contact or, even better, when I grab someone who says 'yes' the rush is just amazing.
If anyone ever tells you that fandom participation is useless, this is a talent I learned that I had by participating in fandom. TAKE THAT, PEOPLE JUDGY OF HOBBYISTS.
In related news, with the help of friends I coordinated a Sunny rarepair prompt fest that turned out to be a success! Twelve works so far, and I'm hoping for more. But even if it just ends up being twelve - I'm floored. This fandom never ceases to surprise me.
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Date: 2017-08-12 06:54 pm (UTC)Also yikes, what the heckie has been going on with you guys that you lost a car, your computer, and your dog's eye?? Was there an accident? I'm glad nothing worse was lost.
Also hooray with progressing in grad school and the conference! I gotta figure out a conference thing too but grumble grumble academia sucks prolonged pout.
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Date: 2017-08-12 06:59 pm (UTC)A SERIES OF DISCONNECTED UNFORTUNATE EVENTS. Someone rammed into the back of my brother in an accident so bad that it totaled the car. The charger to my last computer broke and it wasn't replaceable for Reasons. My phone fell on the floor and despite having a case cracked its LCD screen. My dog is 14 years old and a toy dog and her bulging eye ruptured. Life kind of just kept hitting us over and over lol.
Thank you! I'm currently in re-negotiation after discussing with my mom how they were trying to force me to fly out of a city an hour and a half away instead of one ten minutes away and my mom was like oh HELL no you get back in there and fight. For the first time I considered they might be disrespecting me because I am a young woman :/
THANKS FOR THE HOORAY FOR THE CONFERENCE. It is my very first one and I really am very excited.