Owe My Soul to the Company Man

[ceitfianna]

The job search is making me rather depressed at the moment and last night I had a dream about being late for one of my online reference shifts. Last night I had a wonderful time hanging out with the_croupier as our schedules just haven't been matching up at all. It was so nice to wander in Dawn Treader, have a good dinner and then tea and talk about this strange world. When we were shopping I found two amazing finds, a paper version of Homeward Bounders and Life on the Border, one of the early Borderlands' books. So that was good but my plans for applying for jobs this week seem to keep falling through.

I was going to send out some applications today but the postings had been taken down. I need to get a better plan going for finding and applying for jobs so its just part of what I do. My body is also picking up on my stress and worry about not hearing back from any places I've sent resumes out to and I'm feeling sore and worn out. I think I'm going to try and get back into Monday to Monday plan and use it to organize my job searching and other things around the job stuff like writing library blog posts and going to events in Ann Arbor.

Little things are worrying at me too. I was thinking about trying to make roast chickpeas for dinner tonight and even though I went shopping and bought huge local sweet potatoes and some pasta for mac and cheese, I forgot paper towels so no chickpeas tonight. Also I have some leftovers that I need to clear out and to stock up on some other things. My last few rounds of shopping aren't as organized and thoughtful as they should be and so my pantry isn't in a good spot.

This weekend is going to be good though, I get paid on Friday and then I'm going to drive towards the airport to enjoy Conclave. Cons are good for my soul, there's something about spending time around fellows geeks and I get to see one of my favorite authors and things will get better. Tonight I'm going to run a Happy Hour in milliways_bar, have a short online reference shift, try and do some more writing on my various works in progress and make job plans.

Now to get me doing more on the various works in progress, I'm going to borrow a meme from walksbyherself as for once I actually have works in progress. Its so nice to find myself writing more.

Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous.

Roleplaying and Research
Unwind with Me
The Soul Under Your Skin
Who We're Meant to Be
Hero
Recipe for a Librarian
Too Deep to Wash Away
Sameth's Journey
Son of a Soldier

Name one of them and I'll give you a snippet from it and/or tell you something about it.
Hopefully this will help me do better at writing and finishing some of these.

Comments

[kit-the-brave.livejournal.com]

Wow, a Diana Wynne Jones is always a great find! The current issue of Knitty has a pattern for a shawl called "Calette," and when I clicked on it I was thrilled to find that it was named after Calette and has a quote from The Year of the Griffin. I must knit it.

Good luck with the job hunt! I know it stinks, and I hope you find something great soon.

How do you make roasted chickpeas? I love chickpeas, but I usually make chickpea burgers.

[ceitfianna]

The used bookstores in Ann Arbor are probably my favorite part of living here. Dawn Treader has a fantastic collection and I've lucked into a number of her books from there.

I love her books so much and I love that there are still some I haven't read yet. Ooh, that's a great name and inspiration for a shawl.

I've yet to make roasted chickpeas yet but apparently you drain them, oil and spice them and put them in the oven. Normally I make chickpea salad in the summer and this looked like a nice way to eat chickpeas when its cold out.

Thanks for the job hopes. It helps that I have a part-time job so I'm not as stressed as I could be but it wears on me.

[skidmo]

I quite like the sound of The Soul Under Your Skin and Too Deep to Wash Away. :)

[ceitfianna]

The Soul Under Your Skin is an X-Men: First Class fic about Charles' library.

Since his parents’ death, Charles had built up the library in Westchester around his own studies. Many of the books had gone with him to Oxford but it had become a reflection of him in many ways. Science books sat beside works about mediation and his father’s collection of histories and maps while mixed in were a few of the books of his and Raven’s childhood. One of his favorite’s was MacDonald’s The Princess and Curdy because in Curdy’s curse he saw one of the first recognitions of how his mutation worked as he was able to see below the skin to the person within. Science Fiction does deal with telepathy but most of the time, they don’t seem to understand the constant noise and he soon gave up on them.

Too Deep to Wash Away is me fixing the end of Becoming Jane

It was not First Impressions but she couldn’t face that yet, not with the ribbon stained with his blood beside her writing and tying up his letters. Henry and the Comtesse married and seemed happy in their own way, they each found what they needed with each other. Many things went unspoken as arguments weren’t had for the sake of everyone’s happiness for though their mother wished her daughters married, she knew that it was not to happen.

In London, the plans for the engagement moved ever onward and Tom spent his time as a barrister should with study and proper care to cases. He assisted men that he had once gambled and boxed with out of debt entanglements and tried not to think of Jane Austen. Henry married and Tom received a letter but no invitation which wasn’t a surprise. Within that letter, Henry wrote a line that struck Tom more than he thought words could do as he said; My sisters are as ever themselves though more quietly. I will not speak much of them but her words will appear, my friend. When he read those words, he could see her so clearly, ink staining her fingers, oblivious to all the world as she taught the world the truth through her words.

[skidmo]

Becoming Jane is such a difficult film for me. I rather like the idea of fixing it. :)

[ceitfianna]

Yes, I adore the movie but it makes me cry so much. This fic is based around an idea that dynastessa who played Tom Lefroy in Bar had to fix canon. Writing it out is helping to get the idea ironed out as its a tricky time period to work in.

[yakalskovich]

What's 'Recipe for a Librarian'?

[ceitfianna]

Its a poem idea I got one night after some wonderful thing that made me go, oh yes, I'm in the right field.

How do you make a librarian?
Begin with curiosity, bubbling and brimming, wishing to know all there is know.
Add a love of words, I don’t care their form but words,
Mix them together until they start to escape, searching for knowledge.
Then next and important though it can be hard to spot is empathy,
A listener, a carer, someone who wants to help.

[yakalskovich]

Oh that sounds lovely! Do you think you're going to finish at some stage?

[ceitfianna]

Yes, I'd really like to finish it. Most of these works in progress are things I want to go back to.

[yakalskovich]

I'm sure it will be quite inspiring when finished. One of the things people pass on. I know I'd pass it on to the Nazgul so she can put it up on a notice board in the library where she works...

[ceitfianna]

Then I'll try to finish it. I got to the point where I wasn't sure where it was going. I need to look at it again and decide if it needs more or if its meant to be short.

[yakalskovich]

When you're done, I'd gladly beta it! I used to write poetry as well and even got lessons when I lived in England, in exchange for babysitting my poetry teacher's brats some evenings.-