well, things here @ vcl (victor'scrazylife) have still been chaotic & packed w/ a certain level of uncertainty & insanity that i've been living with for years, but am still not fully accustomed to.
starting w/ the good news - i am no longer a graduate student! @ the end of spring quarter, i received my master's degree.
additionally, i submitted another article nearly a month ago for publication. their deadline is looming and i've not heard anything back from them - and since their policy is to notify all writers of a rejection as soon as the article is removed from consideration, every passing day is another day closer to my 1st paid publication!
moving on to the bad & the crazy...
i've been searching for a "real" job since last october. since graduation, i've been driving semi regionally in the area. a part time office position has been offered to me - but that's been slow in coming. currently, it's been 2 weeks since the position / salary was offered & agreed upon - and yet - i still find myself driving every day i'm at work.
in my field, i'm pretty consistently filling out applications & have had a handful of interviews. i know for a fact that i was in the final 4 out of more than 90 for one position. while there's a certain satisfaction in that - it's not a job offer & my financial situation has been deteriorating as of late.
as the financial situation is bleak, to say the least, i've begun the process of returning to a previous job as a part time / casual employee (at an increase in pay of approximately $5 / hr). hopefully this will work out and i can start banking money to prepare for the inevitable repayment of student loans which should be starting in january.
my schedule and life are completely unpredictable. yesterday, i got a call @ 0645 telling me to come in right away for a full day's work. no time to pack a lunch... fortunately, i keep my bag packed & ready to go by the door...
the dating realm hasn't been remarkable as of late. i've been spending a fair amount of time w/ #1, even though she's moved out of state, she's been coming back here quite a bit in her time off (it must be nice to have a 36hr/wk job that pays more than i've made in the past 5yrs combined)
last weekend, i went on a self-designed lighthouse tour along the southern bank of lake erie in ohio. it was a good excuse to rack up nearly 375 miles on the car in a weekend and spend some time driving. previously, i wrote about put-in-bay as being pretty cool - regrettably, during their 'season' that is not the case... the rampant douchebaggery that occurs there is absolutely sickening. plus, if you're not looking to get trashed - there's very little to do on the island to pass your time.
other than that - life has just been paycheck-to-paycheck trying to cover bills and survive while living in a world of uncertainty w/ nothing that even closely resembles a normal schedule. if that's not sufficient for a crazy life, idk wtf is.
