Being a Real Adult is HARD, you guys. D:

[tammaiya]

Although, to be fair, my graduate job applications angst has calmed down somewhat after the last post that LJ ate, because there was a law careers fair on Thursday and I feel both more generally employable and much less aimless than I did before it. It always makes me calmer when I have a goal in mind, because I get uneasy without some form of direction. Now I'm still not totally sure what I want to do with my life, but I've at least somewhat figured out the next step of where I do and don't want to apply and how to go about doing that, so I feel far more settled. (Now here's hoping one of them actually wants to employ me! But several places were really excited about Japanese skills, so I'm feeling cautiously optimistic.)

Things are also looking up on the finding a casual job for NOW front, because I have a better idea of which firms are looking for paralegals and so forth. Having sent in my CV to the appropriate places, now to cross my fingers and hope I get a job! I am unemployed for the first time since I was 15,* it is not a pleasant feeling. :/ (Okay, not TOTALLY unemployed, I mean, I just finished one translation job - $600! yay! I'm a real translator now!! - and another one in the works to start next month, but it is not the steady source of income I crave.)

Meanwhile, I went out with my mum to get boots yesterday. In the process, I also acquired pink ugg-boots that tighten with straps that have pompoms and look like they came out of Card Captor Sakura and a purple beret. I am pleased about this.

Regarding uni, my motivation is slowly recuperating and I have started doing my readings again. This is good, because I WANT to enjoy my classes, and also I want to keep my grades up so that I continue to have a reasonable shot at first class honours in law if I do it next semester, which is looking increasingly likely. On another note, last week they had the prizes ceremony. My entire team (who were enrolled in the competition as a course) were there to collect Dean's awards. We got HDs and a small amount of prize money, too. Pay off!

On a more fannish note, lately I finished World Destruction (AKA Sands of Destruction) being egged on by Becky, and also beat the final boss of ToV. However, somehow, despite that I never play new game pluses, I have been pulled into the trap of endless grade-farming and trying to get all the titles I can and synthesising things. I CANNOT ESCAPE FROM THE OBSESSIVENESS. Or the urge for Flynn/Yuri. I can't write it until I see First Strike, though. I REFUSE TO BE JOSSED. The One Piece lovefest also continues - what are you talking about, reading R18 fanfiction is a TOTALLY appropriate application of my Japanese skills! - and yet somehow, right now, despite all this the fic I am working on is an old Suikoden Tierkreis WiP. Go figure. It's basically all Becky's fault, though.

* In fact, I wasn't very long unemployed between the job I had at 14 and getting the one at 15, either.

Comments

[littlelinor.livejournal.com]

... I'm surprised people employ 14 years olds o.O

ON THE OTHER HAND
YAY FINISHED TRANSLATION?

[tammaiya.livejournal.com]

Well it was a babysitting job. XD But it was a regular weekly thing. And it's legal to employ people from the age of 14 and 9 months, which I probably was, but of course it's not strictly enforced with cash-in-hand jobs like dishwashing or babysitting anyway.

Indeed I did! About a week or so ago, actually, I forgot to mention. *g*

[fahye.livejournal.com]

We will not speak of the ugg boots, they sound like everything that is wrong with the world, but did you get actual boots too? There are some GORGEOUS ones out at the moment, I spent ten minutes today lusting after some heeled boots in kneehigh tan leather. And then I sighed and got a pair of flat Hush Puppies ankle boots.

[tammaiya.livejournal.com]

I did, actually, zip-up knee highs with low heels. They're black leather, but cloth behind the calf so they're really soft and stretchy. :)

The great thing about the ugg boots is that they are so SOFT and FUZZY and WARM. Also the whole revolting sugary shoujo manga-ness of them amuses me.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Wait till I am in Orange next winter, I am sure I'll be on the lookout for fuzzy warm things. I don't even need half the coats I own, in Sydney.

[beckerbell.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed how much of this was my fault. :D :D :D :D And I'm kind of vaguely envious of your pink ugg CCS boots because that actually sounds really, really adorable. Normally, I don't care for uggs, but if they looked like Sakura's shoes? YEAH, I WOULD TOTALLY WEAR THOSE.

[februaryfour]

Congrats on the finished job--in one stroke you've earned more doing translating than I ever have doing voice acting in 3 years. (To be fair, I haven't been looking for jobs and have only been working with people who approach me first, but still.)

ETA: On an unrelated note... if Doug and I were to pass through Canberra, would there be room for us to crash, or would you be able to recommend something really cheap?

[tammaiya.livejournal.com]

Also, that's AU dollars, they're slightly less shiny. XD But yeah, I was lucky to get it. Even if did actually take a fair amount of work - it was for a TV documentary, so I had to listen to it like a billion times to catch what people were saying about sake. *g*

And sure! I'd have to ask my parents, but we have a spare room and I'm sure they'd be perfectly happy to put you up. :) Whenabouts will you be here?