What's up with me
Oct. 9th, 2024 11:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
resonantBeen missing DW. So I thought I'd try posting as well as reading and see how that worked!
Current status:
IRL:
Still job-hunting after getting laid off this summer.
I got access to jobs coaching as part of my severance, and I didn't think much of the idea but the execution has been amazing. I've loved having assignments to help me break the whole process down into manageable steps, and encouragement from someone who understands my field. And just in the ten years since I last job-hunted, the process has changed so much (mostly around finding remote work with no local contacts) that it's helpful to have some guidance.
Obligatory self-promo: I'm looking for grant writing or proposal management work, or something else with the same skills combo (writing plus research plus executive function stuff). Someplace smaller than IBM.
Otherwise: still in a commuter marriage. The kidlet (who was asleep on my shoulder while I wrote my very first fanfic) left for grad school in August.
Fannishly:
Back in due South, the warm pond where my fannish life began. Place is pretty lively for source material that went off the air in the previous century!
Slowly dipping back into writing. Currently working on solving the problem that most sex pollen stories don't actually have very much sex in them.
Hi!
Current status:
IRL:
Still job-hunting after getting laid off this summer.
I got access to jobs coaching as part of my severance, and I didn't think much of the idea but the execution has been amazing. I've loved having assignments to help me break the whole process down into manageable steps, and encouragement from someone who understands my field. And just in the ten years since I last job-hunted, the process has changed so much (mostly around finding remote work with no local contacts) that it's helpful to have some guidance.
Obligatory self-promo: I'm looking for grant writing or proposal management work, or something else with the same skills combo (writing plus research plus executive function stuff). Someplace smaller than IBM.
Otherwise: still in a commuter marriage. The kidlet (who was asleep on my shoulder while I wrote my very first fanfic) left for grad school in August.
Fannishly:
Back in due South, the warm pond where my fannish life began. Place is pretty lively for source material that went off the air in the previous century!
Slowly dipping back into writing. Currently working on solving the problem that most sex pollen stories don't actually have very much sex in them.
Hi!
Waves hello!
Date: 10/9/24 05:13 pm (UTC)If there's anyone who can bring more sex to sex pollen, it's you!
How lovely for job coaching to actually be worthwhile, and not just a checkbox on a list suggested by another list addressed to HR personnel.
grad school fuck how did time fly this fast? Due South provides so many fannish accordances!
Re: Waves hello!
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Date: 10/9/24 06:20 pm (UTC)Hi!!
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Date: 10/9/24 06:29 pm (UTC)nice to see you post
good luck with the job hunt, and with the writing. also, grad school? what even is time
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Date: 10/9/24 07:06 pm (UTC)I hope the job search pans out into something satisfactory.
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Date: 10/9/24 07:49 pm (UTC)Kidlet is in grad school?! What even is time.
(Mine just started high school, which is surreal too.)
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Date: 10/9/24 09:22 pm (UTC)Oh, nice! (Are you mostly on Tumblr for that, or Dreamwidth, or somewhere else? Just curious.)
*waves and wishes you luck with your jobhunt*
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Date: 10/10/24 03:51 pm (UTC)There's an active Discord server, Due South Bound -- https://discord.gg/FuArDEkU. Lots of new folks discovering the show for the first time. Many of them very good at gifmaking.
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Date: 10/10/24 01:50 am (UTC)who was asleep on my shoulder while I wrote my very first fanfic)
awww....
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Date: 10/13/24 02:39 am (UTC)Congrats to the kidlet on launching into grad school! How exciting. Sometimes I wish I had gone for it.
It's lovely to have the kind of fandom that you can come back to after an absence and still find activity and inspiration there. ♥
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