Madness strikes (and scores)

Emailed Julie. You can smell the madness lurking:

Juuuuuuuuuuliiiiiieeeeeeeeee!
I no have your phone number. (waaah, pathetic) Have finally acquired a new phone, but no julie! WOE IS ELAINE! How is Heather? Did she have a good giggle at our latest email? How is the summer going? I'm guessing work, work, work. That's What I'm doing, oh, and applying for MORE work, of course. That, and avoiding spending money. Whohoo, not so fun.

Oh, and generally being pathetic. Oh, and next week, getting MORE drugs for the evil sickness that will not go AWAY. I had antibiotics, but they ran out and didn't seem to work. Also, have an inhaler, which helps me breathe when I'm wheezy, but nothing going for the prodigious quantities of yellow goo that I'm still consistently spewing forth. Yeah, I know that was a gross mental image, but I figure since you're a Med student, you can handle assorted (rather disgusting) bodily fluids. Unless they get ON you, of course.

Hmmm. Other updates. Have examined my after college job prospects. Ick. Bleak. HELP! Uhhhh...Have decided to trade in faulty procrastinating piece-of-crap brain for a new bike. New bike should be fun (no, really!). Okay, just kidding. Need a good book. Am reading "the Rule of Four." Not exciting so far. Maybe a trip to the library for some good trashy summer reading (read: smut novels, whohoo) is in order? Gah!

Ah well, keep me updated? Please? I'm going completely insane. Or is it neurotic?

Lub,
'laine (the pain)

Life after College???!

So, today on Monster, I was exploring my after-college options, and I picked out a few likely ones. Well, okay, SORTA.

Job options:
Teacher
Psychology researcher
waitress
bartender
Personal shopper
hotel worker
sales associate (retail)
INTERN??
lab assistant
park ranger
temp worker
Nonprofit?
Publishing/printing/writing
restaurant and food service
Military?
government and policy?
captain/skipper/crew?

The problem with all the jobs that I want to apply for is how to go about getting the skills I need for them? All of these sound somewhat or particularly interesting, but it's hard to choose. Some, of course, I already have experience in, others I would LIKE to have experience in, and still others are very much "potentials."---so to speak.

For teaching, I'd need to get certified, which is rather a long process and doesn't seem very rewarding in the state of california. Maybe I could teach abroad? For psychology and any sort of scientific research, I'd need to get at least a BA, some experience in a Lab, and maybe even a masters or PHD down the road. Bartending requires some sort of certification and classes, I think. I don't know much about that one, or if I'd be really suited to it. Waitress, eh, I could do that. Hotel worker, eh, likewise could do that. Sales associate, yeah, could do that. Park ranger, I have no idea how I'd apply to do that, but it'd be really fun. Maybe I could see what kind of environmental science jobs there are out there...maybe email one of my professors. Publishing would be fun as well, as well as writing. I don't, however, know a thing about it. Military is okay, but I'm not really thinking that I'd want to JOIN it, I'd rather work FOR it--kind of thing. I could be a lobbyist, but that's sort of a job that needs to be done as a sideline to something more practical, and requires a number of years to gain credence in whatever forum I lobby in (the legislature, etc.). Being a captain sounds like it also requires schooling--midshipman's school and all that. Hmmm.

Faced with all that, can I just be a beach bum for the rest of my life? I'll create sculptures out of trash (found art) to pay my way...

Better yet, anyone got an internship, preferably in a foreign country, or something like that?
Rats.

Summer Inertia, Part I

Hahaaa! Am home once again in the big GG, and happily drugged. So, hopefully goo problem will reach a satisfactory conclusion soon. I hope. Got antibiotics and an inhaler. Whoohoohoo!

Am now very excited about living at home. Is very nice, actually...though one has to get used to all the family insanity. Eh, that's okay.

Went to Jules' graduation yesterday--a very LONG affair. 2 hours, so I brought my new book (the one I got with xmas money but still haven't had the chance to read) yeah, that one. It's called Lirael. Not bad so far. Ceremony was nice, except we didn't know when jules would walk, so we had to watch all the damn kids going across the stage, almost, and then she was toward the end. Humpf, I was the only one that yelled my head off for her. But hey, what are sisters for, but to make an unseemly amount of noise at one's graduation? Heheh. Got some (blurry) pictures with my little digital camera. Will have to post them. Actually, I've got a lot of picture-posting to catch up on. Joy.

Jules' graduation bash/barbeque is today (aunt sheila has already arriv'd) so I guess I should go be social. But FIRST, some inhalant fun. It's such a joy having bronchitis (again).

Love you all, more updates later....I miss heather and Julie and all my roomies already. Feels wierd to not turn around and have them here to tell them funny stuff. DOH! Will have to email peepz.

More latz!