Post by waldenwriter on Nov 4, 2012 1:28:07 GMT -5
Hi everyone. Sorry I've been gone so long. Real life intervened, I guess. The first half of the year, when I was finishing up my web design certificate, was killer. I had pretty much no life for 2-2 1/2 months.
So...not much happening for me. Darkly Bound has still not been edited. (And actually, I lost the typed-up Word file of the first draft, so I have to type it all up again...
) My goal was to work on my web design skills over the summer in order to look for a job in the fall, but that didn't happen unfortunately. So I have delayed my search now till after the holidays, since I don't want to leave my current workplace in the lurch during our busiest time of year. Though to be honest, I would rather be out of there right now. They give me just the bare minimum amount of hours I need to keep my insurance, and my seniority (in years with the company) over all the other GMs in my department grants me NO respect whatsoever. I've been more than flexible with them, staying late when they ask me to, coming in when they call me in, and until recently working my school schedule around so it would work well for them. Yet they give more hours to people who are far less flexible (due to school, having a child to take care of, or a second job -- or some combination of the three) and have less years with the company than I do. SO not fair. 
(One of my coworkers said I should call the union about this, but I decided to consult with my parents before doing that, and my dad suggested I not call the union - and frankly, I was leaning that way myself, since we just recently had a class action situation where an employee of my company [not me] sued the company over some labor stuff, and I didn't want to get into something like that. He suggested I spend the energy I would expend doing that doing more productive stuff, like writing things to send to magazines for money and so on, since due to me not getting a lot of hours I'm not getting a lot of money either, since they take out a lot in taxes and Social Security, plus the ~$17/paycheck my union takes out for dues and health insurance).
I also feel like my walk with God isn't where I want it to be, and I want to work on that. I have been trying to pray more. I also downloaded an app with great Bible reading plans, but I haven't been following it for a while. I have yet to find a Bible reading/study system that works for me. I was using the system in Tim LaHaye's book How to Study The Bible For Yourself for a while earlier this year, but finally stopped because I just wasn't feeling it. There's the typical reading method of a chapter a day or whatever, but I've done that ad nauseam for years, and I'm tired of it. I also have been having trouble finding a devotional that really speaks to me. I am at least going to church though - my parents and I started going to The Rock (Miles McPherson's church) after my brother suggested we go there one day when he was down here visiting. They have a satellite campus in our area. I find the sermons very good, and I even had the courage to stand up and receive prayer from the Altar Call team a couple of times. None of us have found a way to be involved in this church yet, but then it's only been a few months.
So my current status...hoping to better my relationship with God, to work on my web design skills and find a new job worthy of my current college graduate status, and to improve my skills as a writer. Toward that last goal, I am currently doing NaNoWriMo for the first time. You can follow my progress here: www.nanowrimo.org/en/participants/waldenwriter or via the Word Count badge at my writing blog.
So...yeah, I'm back. I hope this shall result in some Monty Python-esque "much rejoicing."
So...not much happening for me. Darkly Bound has still not been edited. (And actually, I lost the typed-up Word file of the first draft, so I have to type it all up again...
) My goal was to work on my web design skills over the summer in order to look for a job in the fall, but that didn't happen unfortunately. So I have delayed my search now till after the holidays, since I don't want to leave my current workplace in the lurch during our busiest time of year. Though to be honest, I would rather be out of there right now. They give me just the bare minimum amount of hours I need to keep my insurance, and my seniority (in years with the company) over all the other GMs in my department grants me NO respect whatsoever. I've been more than flexible with them, staying late when they ask me to, coming in when they call me in, and until recently working my school schedule around so it would work well for them. Yet they give more hours to people who are far less flexible (due to school, having a child to take care of, or a second job -- or some combination of the three) and have less years with the company than I do. SO not fair. 
(One of my coworkers said I should call the union about this, but I decided to consult with my parents before doing that, and my dad suggested I not call the union - and frankly, I was leaning that way myself, since we just recently had a class action situation where an employee of my company [not me] sued the company over some labor stuff, and I didn't want to get into something like that. He suggested I spend the energy I would expend doing that doing more productive stuff, like writing things to send to magazines for money and so on, since due to me not getting a lot of hours I'm not getting a lot of money either, since they take out a lot in taxes and Social Security, plus the ~$17/paycheck my union takes out for dues and health insurance).I also feel like my walk with God isn't where I want it to be, and I want to work on that. I have been trying to pray more. I also downloaded an app with great Bible reading plans, but I haven't been following it for a while. I have yet to find a Bible reading/study system that works for me. I was using the system in Tim LaHaye's book How to Study The Bible For Yourself for a while earlier this year, but finally stopped because I just wasn't feeling it. There's the typical reading method of a chapter a day or whatever, but I've done that ad nauseam for years, and I'm tired of it. I also have been having trouble finding a devotional that really speaks to me. I am at least going to church though - my parents and I started going to The Rock (Miles McPherson's church) after my brother suggested we go there one day when he was down here visiting. They have a satellite campus in our area. I find the sermons very good, and I even had the courage to stand up and receive prayer from the Altar Call team a couple of times. None of us have found a way to be involved in this church yet, but then it's only been a few months.
So my current status...hoping to better my relationship with God, to work on my web design skills and find a new job worthy of my current college graduate status, and to improve my skills as a writer. Toward that last goal, I am currently doing NaNoWriMo for the first time. You can follow my progress here: www.nanowrimo.org/en/participants/waldenwriter or via the Word Count badge at my writing blog.
So...yeah, I'm back. I hope this shall result in some Monty Python-esque "much rejoicing."
