Just popping in to say that everything is pretty good. I'm feeling better about my cafe job, finally. Now that I'm trained on drinks everything's going a lot smoother. I hope that I can learn how to make fancy designs on lattes. I worked yesterday on Halloween and tried to make a ghost. It was more sort of a blog . . . but you've got to start somewhere, right?
(Sorry if I sound British. I just watched a British youtuber and every time I watch anyone British it's like the speech pattern gets lodged in my brain.)
My internship is good. Yesterday, I had a talk with my boss about how long it's going to last (because it was making me a little nervous, not knowing.) She basically said that I could stay as long as I wanted and that she loved having me there because I was so enthusiastic and had so many ideas (she's sweet). So I said that I'd like to stay through March for sure and then we can talk about it again then.
The intern that I have a secret competition with brought in chocolate chip bannana bread and left some for me yesterday, so now I feel bad for having a secret competition with her. I'll revise that. We're still having a secret competition (I'm winning, I post to the blog the most by far), but it's a friendly competition. I also found out she's leaving in December, which I know because the editors are taking all three interns out to lunch on December 1. I'm excited! Also, I'll get to finally meet THE OTHER intern that I've never seen.
I had a little bit of the same sadness as Allya because I wasn't doing anything crazy for Halloween. To make up for it, I just thought about last year when we all went to the Rocky Horror Picture show at Cylon dressed up as a fanciful man. Then I thought, "See, I'm an interesting dynamic twenty-something with great friends?" and then I felt better.
But I just started doing NaNoWriMo (national novel writing month), which I'm excited about because there is a group in my hometown. We had a meeting on Sunday night and there were a lot of people. Unfortunately, not many guys in my age range. I staked out all possible guys the second I walked in (I have a one track mind, so sue me) and was horrified to discover that one of them was seventeen. (AHHHH!!!) I mean, he's a senior in high school, but still. I realize that this is the first time in my life that jail bait is a real possibility. Not that I liked him or anything, I just automatically like to take stock of my options and I had hopes that maybe he was a freshman from the local college. No dice.
I spent a lot of time talking to him actually. He writes Naruto/One piece fan fiction which makes me shake my head and smile. Oh high school. Such an innocent time. Actually, MOST of the Nanowrimoers write fan fiction. The woman that leads it wrote a book about what would have happened in Harry Potter if Voldemort had one which I think is amazing. Also, she has a really neat accent. (Spanish? I'm as bad at telling accents as I am at telling ages.) They're an adorable group of people. I'ma try and make some friends.
Even better, I'm blogging about Nanowrimo this month for the magazine, which is exciting. Maybe I'll post a link for you guys to read in the draft section? If you're interested. You don't have to pretend, I'll understand.
I spent all morning putting the first blog post up for it and damn, Drupal has even more death formatting than Blogger. And then a picture I wanted to embed just wouldn't for some reason. No matter that I've embedded other pictures the exact same way in the same format. No, no. This just didn't want to. BLOGS ARE THE TOOLS OF SATAN!
Sorry, had to get that out of my system.
Anyway, I hope you're all doing well. I'm feeling good. I'm going to attempt to make some friends and try to lose some weight. It's weird to know that I'm going to be in this town for quite a while, but I'm okay with it. Hope you're all doing fabulously.
Glad to hear that you're settling down (but not permanently, I know). I think you'd find it really interesting to know that we've got 2 British volunteers here at Tak Pittayakhom School, and when I first saw them, I was so surprised to learn that one was 17 and the other 18. The one who is 18 dresses impeccably EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. Nice dress shirts, slacks, dress shoes, and sometimes a vest. Yes, that's right. A muthaeffin' vest/waistcoat. I was like "...how are you not dripping in sweat in that?" and then I realized that he was. He was just better at dealing with it. Or something. I really don't know why he does that, actually. Though it is nice to see someone dress nicely every day. It's a breath of fresh air.
ReplyDeleteI'm so proud of you for doing NaNiWriMo! I never really have time to, and in all honesty, my students need a lot more attention than I thought they did. But I think it's good you're meeting people who have the same interests. As for age, ehh...you'll find someone. SOMEONE WORTHY AND AWESOME AND WE'LL ALL LIKE. (Because that's important.)
I love you. I hope you know that and remind yourself of that every single day. muah!
I'm glad things are going good for you! I want you to make me some fancy coffee drink. But I can wait until you can make a design. (Although, I would still accept blob-like ghosts)
ReplyDeleteI should find a Nanowrimo meet-up here... I was going to look into writing groups anyway. And it's okay, Cerasi, I have a similar one track mind. And it's definitely on the same track.
@ Ada: you make me laugh. (oh, he IS dripping in sweat. lol)
And yes, I want to read your creative! Maybe we could email stuff like that with difficult-to-translate-into-death-blogger-formatting to each other and have a comment thread on the blog for it.
@Ada- That 18-year-old British boy sounds too cute for words. Well, sweaty, but cute. (You know, aside from the dueling facts of you have a boyfriend and he's kind of young.)
ReplyDeleteSorry you have no time to write, but I imagine that having a group of students is sort of like having children. Time=not so much. I hope everything is going well with that. (I'll head over to your other blog later today to find out.)
@Allya- You should find a Nanowrimo meet up. There's no easier way to find immediately insane people. Last night I went to write with this writing group about twenty minutes south of me and I found out that they formed because they were sick of nonfiction group in the city. LOLZ. They will truly be kindred spirits.
And YES, e-mailing stuff and then having a comment section for it on the blog is a good way to dodge the terrible, terrible death-formatting of blogger. Good idea Allya. I'm all on board.