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Jan. 10th, 2009 06:45 pmUm, what the hell? I am fairly confident that I did not favorite NEWS's "Happy Birthday" PV on youtube. D:
So, I've done diddly-squat today. I took two naps and watched a lot of Coupling on DVD and unfortunately gave myself a headache. I like idleness, which sucks because I'm so poorly suited to it? Or maybe I'm just poorly suited to having a huge sleep deficit. And it's only going to get worse! Work is about to start kicking my ass for the next, um. 11 months. D: Feb was going to be a lighter, easier month and I was going to go up to Smith and see a hockey game. And instead, we're having a special election for three City Council seats and there are going to be disclosure statements coming out my butt. Then right after that ends, another big one (we have a big one coming up this Thursday) in March, and then hopefully a moderately gentle April.
This summer on to November is going to be madness. Which sucks because I might be looking for a roommate again this summer. It just makes it really hard to schedule to show people the apartment and meet with them if I'm working lots of overtime and am in on the weekends and stuff - especially if the overtime is unpredictable. On the other hand, money!
I was going to say it's good because I like my job and the people I work with, and it's true, but someone new is starting in my unit on Monday and I'm quite nervous. My boss and I work so well together! On the other hand, with all the craziness coming up we really do need the extra support. Augh, though, it's going to be so disorienting for them, starting a few days before the disclosure statement. And then I'm also going to have to help train her? Which isn't that onerous or anything, but I have a bunch of other things to finish before we start doing our reviews - and people will start filing on Monday.
This review is going to involve three main programs/information aspects and all three have problems right now. XD It's very exciting. I'm doing a lot of testing things and finding mistakes and problems and what-not. Oh, I remembered the skill I have that I was trying to think of the other day - I'm good at breaking down problems into smaller, easy to solve parts, or breaking down the different factors that go into making a decision.
But work isn't that stressful, I should say - just tiring. Maybe it should be, but I have a lot of faith in my boss, and I always know that she's ultimately responsible. Not that I feel like I don't need to do my part, but when things get weird, I know that she's the one in charge of making things work and making decisions. Which is I guess how it's supposed to be when you're not that well paid and don't have power. But it's nice, because it isn't always that way.
A meme, in which![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ilanabean42 asked me awesome questions. If you like, leave a comment and I will try to come up with something cool to ask you.
1. How did you choose your major in college?
For those just tuning in, I was a religion major at Smith. A theme of my young adult life was having no clue what I wanted to do. God, I thought things were going to end badly. Luckily I eventually latched onto public service. Anyway, yes. All senior year of high school was like "What are you going to major in" and I was like "I'm going to a liberal arts college so I don't have to know now!" But I think I actually said "I'm thinking art history maybe?" Anyway, I ended up taking an art history class first semester and hating it (although Katie ended up majoring in art history, and I did take one other class on the Golden Age of Dutch Painting and adored it). But I also took "Intro to World Religions" because it seemed interesting and I loved it.
And then, what Smith does is has these "presentations of the major" - this is probably normal, you know, you meet the faculty and some current majors speak. So Intro to World Religions was already a good class to start with because a lot of the department did guest lectures. But the two main professors in charge were really cool (two profs teaching a class is often hilarious - they were very Abbot and Costello) and one of them said we should go to the presentation of the major because there would be indian food, and. . . a diety might appear. So I had to go. And, indeed, he came dressed as Hanuman, Hindu god of learning and general awesomeness (possibly my all-time favorite divine figure). Anyway, the faculty just all seemed really awesome and I decided I was interested in the subject matter and there just ended up being loads of classes I wanted to take. But I always knew I wasn't really planning on just doing religion for the rest of my life. Unless I go back and become a scholar of rabbinic literature. . .
2. What's the best thing about having a twin?
Not to be smug, but - everything? Actually, to go off-topic a little, the worst thing about being a twin is how spoiled it makes me - we're allowed to depend on each other and it'd made it difficult for me to make friends, I think, and it also makes me expect a lot from my friendships. Because. . . the best part of being a twin is having someone who really, really understands me. We joke about twin telepathy but actually there's just a lot of shorthand, where we can be like "you know that thing? with the?" and stuff like that. Same experiences, same interests - of course, she's a raging Takki fan. It's always disorienting when I get into a fandom that Katie isn't into. I was into JE for about 6 months before I hooked her and it was tough!
3. If you had to be stranded on an unescapable island with only one book for entertainment, which would you take?
I was going to say the Neverending Story but you guys won't be able to hear the rimshot noise. Um, what's really rereadable? And long. Right now I'd say ASH: A Secret History cos it's long but I haven't read it once yet (oops). Lord of the Rings? RotK if I can only bring one volume. ::sigh:: i don't read enough these days. Inescapable island sounds just really frightening and horrifying, though. It wouldn't even matter what book I took. Eventually I would start trying to make patterns by looking at every other letter or something ridiculous. I would just go crazy, if my only entertainment was one book. And I guess survival.
4. If you were given a teleporter that would only work once (round trip) and had to be used immediately, where would you go?
Ahhh, this is tough! I really want a teleporter but that was sort of when I was at Smith and Katie was at Brandeis, to go back and forth loads. Ah, I see round trip, not one way. Where do I want to go? Toronto, maybe. Or New Zealand - can I bring people? Oh, or somewhere with beautiful crazy mountain scenery that would be really hard to get to. Oh, or Prague! Or back to Vienna. Or a TOKIO concert! Or somewhere where I'll learn how to be decisive?
5. What one clothing item/accessory would you like to see become more fashionable?
Hahaha, such a good question. Monocles, I think! I am desperate to see people wandering around wearing monocles. I'm also, this isn't a clothing item but I'm on a whole muttonchop campaign. As you may have noticed.
So, I've done diddly-squat today. I took two naps and watched a lot of Coupling on DVD and unfortunately gave myself a headache. I like idleness, which sucks because I'm so poorly suited to it? Or maybe I'm just poorly suited to having a huge sleep deficit. And it's only going to get worse! Work is about to start kicking my ass for the next, um. 11 months. D: Feb was going to be a lighter, easier month and I was going to go up to Smith and see a hockey game. And instead, we're having a special election for three City Council seats and there are going to be disclosure statements coming out my butt. Then right after that ends, another big one (we have a big one coming up this Thursday) in March, and then hopefully a moderately gentle April.
This summer on to November is going to be madness. Which sucks because I might be looking for a roommate again this summer. It just makes it really hard to schedule to show people the apartment and meet with them if I'm working lots of overtime and am in on the weekends and stuff - especially if the overtime is unpredictable. On the other hand, money!
I was going to say it's good because I like my job and the people I work with, and it's true, but someone new is starting in my unit on Monday and I'm quite nervous. My boss and I work so well together! On the other hand, with all the craziness coming up we really do need the extra support. Augh, though, it's going to be so disorienting for them, starting a few days before the disclosure statement. And then I'm also going to have to help train her? Which isn't that onerous or anything, but I have a bunch of other things to finish before we start doing our reviews - and people will start filing on Monday.
This review is going to involve three main programs/information aspects and all three have problems right now. XD It's very exciting. I'm doing a lot of testing things and finding mistakes and problems and what-not. Oh, I remembered the skill I have that I was trying to think of the other day - I'm good at breaking down problems into smaller, easy to solve parts, or breaking down the different factors that go into making a decision.
But work isn't that stressful, I should say - just tiring. Maybe it should be, but I have a lot of faith in my boss, and I always know that she's ultimately responsible. Not that I feel like I don't need to do my part, but when things get weird, I know that she's the one in charge of making things work and making decisions. Which is I guess how it's supposed to be when you're not that well paid and don't have power. But it's nice, because it isn't always that way.
A meme, in which
ilanabean42 asked me awesome questions. If you like, leave a comment and I will try to come up with something cool to ask you.1. How did you choose your major in college?
For those just tuning in, I was a religion major at Smith. A theme of my young adult life was having no clue what I wanted to do. God, I thought things were going to end badly. Luckily I eventually latched onto public service. Anyway, yes. All senior year of high school was like "What are you going to major in" and I was like "I'm going to a liberal arts college so I don't have to know now!" But I think I actually said "I'm thinking art history maybe?" Anyway, I ended up taking an art history class first semester and hating it (although Katie ended up majoring in art history, and I did take one other class on the Golden Age of Dutch Painting and adored it). But I also took "Intro to World Religions" because it seemed interesting and I loved it.
And then, what Smith does is has these "presentations of the major" - this is probably normal, you know, you meet the faculty and some current majors speak. So Intro to World Religions was already a good class to start with because a lot of the department did guest lectures. But the two main professors in charge were really cool (two profs teaching a class is often hilarious - they were very Abbot and Costello) and one of them said we should go to the presentation of the major because there would be indian food, and. . . a diety might appear. So I had to go. And, indeed, he came dressed as Hanuman, Hindu god of learning and general awesomeness (possibly my all-time favorite divine figure). Anyway, the faculty just all seemed really awesome and I decided I was interested in the subject matter and there just ended up being loads of classes I wanted to take. But I always knew I wasn't really planning on just doing religion for the rest of my life. Unless I go back and become a scholar of rabbinic literature. . .
2. What's the best thing about having a twin?
Not to be smug, but - everything? Actually, to go off-topic a little, the worst thing about being a twin is how spoiled it makes me - we're allowed to depend on each other and it'd made it difficult for me to make friends, I think, and it also makes me expect a lot from my friendships. Because. . . the best part of being a twin is having someone who really, really understands me. We joke about twin telepathy but actually there's just a lot of shorthand, where we can be like "you know that thing? with the?" and stuff like that. Same experiences, same interests - of course, she's a raging Takki fan. It's always disorienting when I get into a fandom that Katie isn't into. I was into JE for about 6 months before I hooked her and it was tough!
3. If you had to be stranded on an unescapable island with only one book for entertainment, which would you take?
I was going to say the Neverending Story but you guys won't be able to hear the rimshot noise. Um, what's really rereadable? And long. Right now I'd say ASH: A Secret History cos it's long but I haven't read it once yet (oops). Lord of the Rings? RotK if I can only bring one volume. ::sigh:: i don't read enough these days. Inescapable island sounds just really frightening and horrifying, though. It wouldn't even matter what book I took. Eventually I would start trying to make patterns by looking at every other letter or something ridiculous. I would just go crazy, if my only entertainment was one book. And I guess survival.
4. If you were given a teleporter that would only work once (round trip) and had to be used immediately, where would you go?
Ahhh, this is tough! I really want a teleporter but that was sort of when I was at Smith and Katie was at Brandeis, to go back and forth loads. Ah, I see round trip, not one way. Where do I want to go? Toronto, maybe. Or New Zealand - can I bring people? Oh, or somewhere with beautiful crazy mountain scenery that would be really hard to get to. Oh, or Prague! Or back to Vienna. Or a TOKIO concert! Or somewhere where I'll learn how to be decisive?
5. What one clothing item/accessory would you like to see become more fashionable?
Hahaha, such a good question. Monocles, I think! I am desperate to see people wandering around wearing monocles. I'm also, this isn't a clothing item but I'm on a whole muttonchop campaign. As you may have noticed.
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Date: 2009-01-11 01:17 am (UTC)Hmmm. . .
1) What's the path of different fandoms that you've been really into since you started internetting a lot?
2) What are your top three favorite plays at the moment?
3) If you could live anywhere you wanted for one year, where would it be?
4) What type of non-conventional animal would you like to have as a pet?
5) If you could relive any point in your life, what would it be?