Thoughts on the Journey

I always forget how much I love the Winter Olympics until I start watching them and I was thinking about why. I remember being little and sitting with my grandmother on the top floor of my parents' house and watching them. Then when I was a little older I saw The Cutting Edge, a movie I know by heart. Also I discovered that Courtney Milan, one of my favorite romance authors loves figure skating. I've been learning so much from her Twitter feed especially for the men's event. It's been making me content and inspiring some fics including a fic inspired by someone else's moodboard from Tumblr. I messaged them to let them know I was writing something and realized that its more inspired than exact than I'd realized. It does make me nervous but I'm going to try and put both those ficlets out there before the end of the Winter Games. I'm trying to embrace; find an end, put the words out there and not worry too much about everyone else.

In hopeful news, today and yesterday, I've been putting myself out there in good ways. I went to a Captain Awkward meetup at the public library that was really nice and I plan on going to others. I still want to do more social things and figure out when I'm going to see Black Panther. Then this weekend, my job agency had a conference, where I didn't know how many people might want to talk to me, library job openings are rare at schools. I ended up having four interviews and a lot of good conversations. As time has gone on, it's wonderful to realize that I don't have as much to explain of why I see libraries as I do.

Life is being all sorts of full and surprising at me. On Thursday, I went to meet with my mentor at the public library but my car was terribly dead. My mother gave me a ride but it gave the day a bit of bump. The meeting ended up being hopeful and wonderful, but after a nice lunch at a wonderful new Italian place, my bank in Michigan called to check that me using my card in Delaware wasn't fraud. I also learned that they hadn't properly changed my address yet so that had to be done.

Then I got to baking for the Democratic event that evening which was lovely but a lot, one woman was shooting ideas of what I could do at me, it was lot. I'm all for confidence and thinking I can accomplish a lot, but I wasn't sure what she heard. It does make me hopeful for the Democratic party as this candidate is grassroots all the way.

Friday, I woke up, got pulled into a Captain Awkward series of amazing posts and the Olympics before going must call AAA. I did and it turns out that a little interior light that I thought was automatic wasn't, my battery was charged without a problem. As the AAA guy was leaving, I had a call from the school in Michigan who wanted to talk to me again. Today I had a long phone interview and I'm a finalist, which leaves me kind of breathless and then I watched Olympics' diving with my parents on my laptop. Oh Tom Daley, you're amazing, I know an American won, but they all did fantastic dives. Last night I also dreamed of being lost around Christchurch on my way to a job interview and going, I know Wellington not Christchurch, quite apt. I hate being lost and this was a dream where I couldn't turn where I needed to and so was feeling like I know where I need to get but can't get there.

Another wonderful thing is that I've introduced my parents to Jim Henson's Storyteller, which they love, they even though they were adults in the 60s and 70s an 80s, never knew of his darker stuff. I get to introduce my parents to Labyrinth and Henson, Henson was the kind of creative soul that makes me hope and believe that the world can change by stories and people. In other odd but happy news. I got back my security deposit from Ann Arbor, they took off some for holes and carpet but not enough to make me go that's unfair and money is good.

Oh and the weather has been exciting here, lots of clouds and storms that hit hard and then leave, yet the sky stays grey. It's made everything cooler and is a nice reminder that Delaware is by the ocean.

Now yesterday, I wrote a few FridayFics, not terribly many as honestly I was busy and so were many other people. Life just keeps on happening. This is what I wrote and my [Bad username or unknown identity: ineedmyfics"]'s story is finally more in progress. It's been moving slower than I like but it'll happen.

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I realized last night why the tiredness I'm going through feels familiar, I honestly feel jet lagged. Its weird but makes sense after all the packing and then all the driving, my body isn't sure what its supposed to be doing. This also means I haven't been doing all the loose end errands I need to just yet, but I will. The other fun thing is my father has changed to Gmail and I'm now the closest computer person at some points. Its wonderful to see him figuring stuff out.

Also I can't watch the Olympics and it sucks. My parents recently gave up their cable and apparently in this area, without cable you can't even get normal TV stations. That means all my Olympic news comes from Twitter, Tumblr and whatever I can find, its weird, but nice. There are no annoying announcers but I really miss just watching the various sports happen. Just having the Olympics on is one of my favorite things. I might need to get myself to a sports bar or something at some point to see it. Is it possible to watch the BBC stuff in the US? Does anyone know how I could do that?

Oh and last night, I had a strange dream. I was working in a huge big box store that seemed to have a little bit of everything. My job before closing was to go around and do things with books and then I discovered a Renn Faire/LARP session in the far back. Then the dream combined confusing roleplaying with retail work, it was one of the stranger dreams I've had in a while.

Yesterday was Friday, I almost forgot that as its been a weird and long week. So I ended up writing some FicFriday stories. And tomorrow or the next day, the narniaexchange stories will finally be posted! I won't be able to share which one's mine until later but people other than my betas can read it.

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This entry was what I wanted to write yesterday about my wonderful day spent at the Benson Ford Research Center and talking about my resume and the joy that is the Olympics. Sadly programming homework ate up far more time than I wanted and I ended up going to bed with a slight headache. I feel better but not fully awake so I'm going to just try to cover all my ideas.

SI has this really good careers center and I recently went in to have them help me revamp my resume, it was so nice to find out that mainly what I need to fix is formatting on my resume. Also that for a public library internship, I just need to email people and ask around. A wonderful thing is that the Michigan summer is really long so I can do my internship early in the Summer and then go see people and do things. I'm not sure if I'll be able to get to DragonCon, because its closer to the start of classes but I want to.

Next enjoyable thing was I'm in this introduction to archives class, which is fantastic, the prof has been involved with archives for a long time and he's one of those people who can look at his profession and ask why do we do this? Well as part of this class we had a field trip to a local archive, the Benson Ford Research Center which is part of the Henry Ford museum, which looks like Independence Hall. For those of you who don't know a lot about Henry Ford and I count myself one of them, Ford was a major collector of Americana and also about inventors. We were able to walk through this huge archive of stuff, there were models of Edison's patents, which made Sameth in my head want to look closer at them. Overall it was really a wonderful trip and on the way up, I sat next to and talked to a guy that I think is cute.

Also on the way back, I finished a fantastic book that I want to recommend to my flist. Its called Fudoki by Kij Johnson and the basic premise of it is that a princess in Japan's court is filling up the last notebooks of her life. So you have her story, but she's also writing about a cat who's house burned down and who took to the road and somewhere along the way was changed to a woman. By the way, that's not really a spoiler since the cover of the book tells you, its more about what that change makes her think about. Its a beautiful book about what does it mean to be free and to be human and I highly recommend it. Apparently she's also written another book called The Fox Woman which I want to find, the grad library is so supposed to have it so maybe I'll grab it after my shift ends.

The Olympic Opening Ceremony last night was so beautiful, I've always loved the Winter Olympics and I loved how the First Nations were such an integral part of everything. I think I want the soundtrack or at least a few of the things that were played during it. Winter Olympics always make me think of my grandmother, because she was visiting us when the Albertville games were on and I recall sitting next to her and just watching things. She died while I was in high school, but a lot of Demeter was inspired by her, she lived in Northern California, Carmel and had this wonderful garden and just knew who she was.

Basically life is pretty good at the moment, I just found out that the woman who works with me for this shift has an extra bookcase so more space for my books. Oh and I'm looking forward to watching Percy Jackson, it sounds like a good romp of a movie.