Today, I am downloading and filling out applications. I started out with this long list of places I had to go and people I had to talk to, but it turns out a lot of this can be done via the web, mail, email, or some combination of the above. Which means I don’t have [...]
education
My job is cooler than yours.
Yesterday, the turtle survey was put temporarily on hold in order to fight a wildfire. I didn’t know when I applied that the Gopher Tortoise Survey Intern job description also included “assistant firefighter” but if I had I would have been even happier to get the job, because fighting wildfires is fun. Even what we [...]
What I’m really doing this year
In a follow-up to my post about all the many things I’m trying to accomplish, I thought I would post about the two Big Things I’m trying to accomplish this year: finishing The Afflicted and switching careers.
Finishing The Afflicted is pretty straightforward and, since this is a writing blog, you’ll be hearing far too much [...]
How much information will fit in my brain at once?
These are all things I’m trying to learn/do/accomplish this winter:
Finish The Afflicted, my SF novel. (Mostly head-writing at the moment, rather than real writing, but it’s moving forward.)
Learn Spanish. (Using Rosetta Stone, going through 1 lesson a day. Also listening to at least two Coffee Break Spanish episodes a week.)
Learn to knit. [...]
