Stoopid Ides of March...
Tuesday, 16 March 2010 11:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
byslantedlightBut before I whinge - thank you everyone who filled in my poll the other day! Results, if anyone's vaguely interested, came back like this... (The question being - What's your focus when you're here on lj?)
Bodie/Doyle - 10
The Professionals - 0
Another specific show - 0
Whatever show grabs me and pulls me along with it - I'll go! - 3
The actors themselves - whatever they're in - 1
Fandom itself - I want to be part of it all! - 5
The Livejournal World, and the people I meet here - 4
The World in general - this is a good place for chatting about it - 2
Anything I've not thought of! - 1
Though I probably could have phrased the question differently, or maybe split it into two, cos there was a mix of answers about people's original focus on lj, and the focus that it became... But all very interesting, cheers! *g*
Along lj-lines (not linked to the poll though!) I'm feeling rather Spring-ish and as if I should have a tidy-up of my filters and tags and flist and so on... I need to go back and re-open those posts I locked in the wake of the Feng Shui thingie scare, and sort my tags, and then... that very weird thing where you realise that actually this-and-that person have never spoken to you, or else you've really got completely different interests, but there's alot of them popping up in your flist and yet you speak rarely, or people have moved on, or... all those things. So I shall do a wee little tidy up, but the only posts I'll leave locked are really personal ones, so if we don't really talk about those anyway, then I'm guessing you won't miss them... *g* And if I accidentally tidy you away, do let me know! But basically any Pros-y/fannish posts will be unlocked anyway, so they'll come up in your flist and you'll be able to see them, you just won't have to put up with the sort of thing that follows in this post... *g* (Sorry, like MsMoat, I'm apparently lousing at compartmentalising life - life is life, it all comes together in my little world....) And of course saying all this doesn't mean I'll necessarily be doing it today...
In other news, I'm quite liking the peace and quiet of starting early, although I still get stuck in traffic coming home, so I don't get home any earlier, unless I skive off Researching, which I did yesterday with a huge headache... On the bright exciting side, I realised that on that schedule I finish an hour earlier still on a Friday (they have a weird working week...), at 2pm, which was perfect timing for being booked into the archive cos they open at 2 as well - yeay for making the most of research/work hours mix. On the crappy blargh side, as soon as Boss also realised this she said No, you'll have to start at 8am on Friday instead... Which basically means that I'd be sitting in traffic for most of my own hour off, which means that I'll still come in for 7am, cos at least then I'll be sitting in front of my computer rather than in front of some idiot who's left three car spaces in front of him, while the traffic is backing up on the sliproad and onto the motorway... (see, that's why I really really mustn't be allowed to sit in traffic any longer than necessary - imagine what I'm like in the actual situation!) So then I thought - well, maybe if I work the extra hour, but she lets me go an hour early on the 5 occasions between now and August that I've been able to book into the Archives... But she said no to that as well. Gargh! I wouldn't mind, but the two girls in the lab who have babies are treated completely differently... Gargh!! So - I'm taking deep breaths, and thinking that I must find a much more constructive way to use the completely empty and wasted hours I sit behind this desk... I wouldn't mind if we were busy/rushed off my feet, but except for the odd occasion, it's so quiet I could die in this chair and they'd barely notice... Humpff.
SPRI itself continues to be lovely and welcoming and bending over backwards to be helpful... and I heard back from Advisor too, almost as soon as I'd posted grumping that I'd not heard from her! She's all excited that I'm getting back into it, and she's even given me a contact name I asked for, but she also said that we won't hear about the funding until probably August... Which is a problem, cos semester starts in August (very end of), and even if I'm over here still doing the research part of it, I need to be registered, which means I need to be accepted back in via the paperwork, which probably means that I need to physically have my F1 visa... And last time I did it, the F1 visa was pricey, needed all sorts of paperwork to back it up (including proof of funding/lots of money in the bank - eep!) and basically I can't afford to go through all that unless I know I'm definitely going to have the funding to carry on. And if we don't get the funding, then I can't carry on at all (and that, I've decided, will be that - I've been kicking against this particular prick for way too long... *g* And I nicked that phrase from HG because I love the way it sounds, but I've no idea what she specifically meant by it in the story... Not a specific person-prick, I don't think, more general... So - kicking against the prick... *g*) So... just argh. I've written to my international adviser to see what she says, but I suspect I know what it'll be... *headdesk*
So really - I'm keeping my eye out for interesting and non-PhD-based jobs... that I qualify for... that I'm not over-qualified for... Hmmn...
Erm... the sun is shining? (Kind of - well it was earlier...) Did I have other whiffle to whiffle? Probably not... How're you doing...? *g*
Bodie/Doyle - 10
The Professionals - 0
Another specific show - 0
Whatever show grabs me and pulls me along with it - I'll go! - 3
The actors themselves - whatever they're in - 1
Fandom itself - I want to be part of it all! - 5
The Livejournal World, and the people I meet here - 4
The World in general - this is a good place for chatting about it - 2
Anything I've not thought of! - 1
Though I probably could have phrased the question differently, or maybe split it into two, cos there was a mix of answers about people's original focus on lj, and the focus that it became... But all very interesting, cheers! *g*
Along lj-lines (not linked to the poll though!) I'm feeling rather Spring-ish and as if I should have a tidy-up of my filters and tags and flist and so on... I need to go back and re-open those posts I locked in the wake of the Feng Shui thingie scare, and sort my tags, and then... that very weird thing where you realise that actually this-and-that person have never spoken to you, or else you've really got completely different interests, but there's alot of them popping up in your flist and yet you speak rarely, or people have moved on, or... all those things. So I shall do a wee little tidy up, but the only posts I'll leave locked are really personal ones, so if we don't really talk about those anyway, then I'm guessing you won't miss them... *g* And if I accidentally tidy you away, do let me know! But basically any Pros-y/fannish posts will be unlocked anyway, so they'll come up in your flist and you'll be able to see them, you just won't have to put up with the sort of thing that follows in this post... *g* (Sorry, like MsMoat, I'm apparently lousing at compartmentalising life - life is life, it all comes together in my little world....) And of course saying all this doesn't mean I'll necessarily be doing it today...
In other news, I'm quite liking the peace and quiet of starting early, although I still get stuck in traffic coming home, so I don't get home any earlier, unless I skive off Researching, which I did yesterday with a huge headache... On the bright exciting side, I realised that on that schedule I finish an hour earlier still on a Friday (they have a weird working week...), at 2pm, which was perfect timing for being booked into the archive cos they open at 2 as well - yeay for making the most of research/work hours mix. On the crappy blargh side, as soon as Boss also realised this she said No, you'll have to start at 8am on Friday instead... Which basically means that I'd be sitting in traffic for most of my own hour off, which means that I'll still come in for 7am, cos at least then I'll be sitting in front of my computer rather than in front of some idiot who's left three car spaces in front of him, while the traffic is backing up on the sliproad and onto the motorway... (see, that's why I really really mustn't be allowed to sit in traffic any longer than necessary - imagine what I'm like in the actual situation!) So then I thought - well, maybe if I work the extra hour, but she lets me go an hour early on the 5 occasions between now and August that I've been able to book into the Archives... But she said no to that as well. Gargh! I wouldn't mind, but the two girls in the lab who have babies are treated completely differently... Gargh!! So - I'm taking deep breaths, and thinking that I must find a much more constructive way to use the completely empty and wasted hours I sit behind this desk... I wouldn't mind if we were busy/rushed off my feet, but except for the odd occasion, it's so quiet I could die in this chair and they'd barely notice... Humpff.
SPRI itself continues to be lovely and welcoming and bending over backwards to be helpful... and I heard back from Advisor too, almost as soon as I'd posted grumping that I'd not heard from her! She's all excited that I'm getting back into it, and she's even given me a contact name I asked for, but she also said that we won't hear about the funding until probably August... Which is a problem, cos semester starts in August (very end of), and even if I'm over here still doing the research part of it, I need to be registered, which means I need to be accepted back in via the paperwork, which probably means that I need to physically have my F1 visa... And last time I did it, the F1 visa was pricey, needed all sorts of paperwork to back it up (including proof of funding/lots of money in the bank - eep!) and basically I can't afford to go through all that unless I know I'm definitely going to have the funding to carry on. And if we don't get the funding, then I can't carry on at all (and that, I've decided, will be that - I've been kicking against this particular prick for way too long... *g* And I nicked that phrase from HG because I love the way it sounds, but I've no idea what she specifically meant by it in the story... Not a specific person-prick, I don't think, more general... So - kicking against the prick... *g*) So... just argh. I've written to my international adviser to see what she says, but I suspect I know what it'll be... *headdesk*
So really - I'm keeping my eye out for interesting and non-PhD-based jobs... that I qualify for... that I'm not over-qualified for... Hmmn...
Erm... the sun is shining? (Kind of - well it was earlier...) Did I have other whiffle to whiffle? Probably not... How're you doing...? *g*
