One Abnormal Girl

I’d been working a godsend temp job since the very end of September for a little over a month, wishing I was permanent but kind of relieved it wasn’t when I got called in for an interview at a liberal arts university where I’d applied almost two months prior (possibly longer). Despite feeling pretty qualified, I was nervous enough that I didn’t think the interview went very well at all, and then I didn’t hear back from them for over a week past the date they’d hoped would be their decision deadline. I was pretty disappointed because I really thought I’d enjoy the role and it was at a university and I think I need to be in that kind of atmosphere to be happy, and the temp job was far from it, though overall a very good job especially given the state of things to come.

But then on Monday I got a call back, and I got the job! It’s just pending a few things that I don’t expect to be a problem. I should be starting on the 8th, which is my mom’s birthday.

The salary is a bit more than I’m making now, which gives me room to budget, and maybe even open a savings account someday. But most importantly, after 3 months I’ll be back on medical insurance, which I haven’t had since college. This will be my first job with benefits. It feels like a huge step forward for me, and even though it’s still not anthropology or linguistics, it’s still something I enjoy (computer software) in an academic atmosphere, which is as close as I’m going to get right now and there’s still room for me to do my own research on my own time thanks to the library. But it is a new position and I haven’t started yet, so who knows what I’ll really end up doing, but this is a particularly good opportunity for me and I’m pretty excited about the potential.

Plus benefits. Mm benefits.

OH MAN.

So I’ve been lazy in writing this, but I did take notes, so I’m hoping I remember it all.  You can check out crazyloststar’s post for cross-referencing XD  Also, this is probably too much detail for most people, but I want to remember it!

About a month before the con, crazyloststar and I came up with the idea to do Greed!Ling and Briggs!Ed for a convention in January, but then decided we needed to do it for Yaoi-con as a surprise to sky_dark, on top of the FAKE cosplay we’d already planned on doing.  Yaoi-con is three days, so we’d have a cosplay for each day, but only a month to make four cosplays, two for each of us.  And what was worse, we had to keep one of them a big secret.  SO DIFFICULT.  But we managed!

Many thanks to rattmice, sky_dark, psycholullaby, inugrlrayn, and militsa for the photos.  You can find out whose pictures are whose by checking out the image name.

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Decade.
by arcanewinter. R 5121 Roy*Hughes. Fullmetal Alchemist. mid-series spoilers.
For ten years, Roy and Hughes have fallen deeper into guilt, and their release from it is bittersweet. This is a story told in 10 parts, each one year before the last.  This was also an entry to the Yaoi-con 2008 Fiction Contest under the theme of “countdown.”

These characters do not belong to me.  I do not profit from this.  You, and not I, are responsible for your offense if you choose to read what follows.

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Not that I’ve been easy to reach lately anyway, but I will be gone starting in about 15 minutes until laaaate Monday night, so you probably won’t hear from me until Tuesday!  Unless you follow my Twitter at arcwin.

In other news, I have a temp-to-hire job that’s alarmingly like my sister’s job, but oooh well, it’s a job!  NOW OFF TO YAOI-CON WITH CRAZYLOSTSTAR!!!

I still need to do some touching up to my wig, but for the most part our FAKE cosplays are done! And this, more than two days before we leave for the convention. Unglaublich! (crazyloststar and I are also learning German, have I mentioned this?)

Here are pictures! They’re pretty silly, but they give a good representation of our 80s glamor.

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I can honestly say that progress is being made on the results of my writing request meme!  Currently I’m working on a response to crazyloststar’s “This Side of Me” prompt, but there will be more to follow, for crazyloststar, Bootses, and KalamityKat. 8D  THANKS GUYS.

But my excuse for being slow is a good one: YCON IS IN LESS THAN A WEEK HOW DID THIS HAPPEN.  I think everything is coming along, though.  Most of what we don’t have yet needs to be bought from a store, so that’s not as alarming as it could be.  Through the hurry and stress, though, I’m still so wildly excited about this year’s convention.  So many people I have connections with will be there.  It’s just a shame that it’s only three days!  How are we ever going to fit everything in D:  I also get to debut a new cosplay, which I haven’t done in a long time, and it’s very appropriate, so I’m extra excited.

In less joyous news, our router burned itself out, so we’ve been having to trade off the connection.  It throws off my normal rhythm quite a lot.  I do get the Internet all day, I just tend to want it most just before bed, so I end up staying up late to do that.  YES THAT IS MY EXCUSE FOR NOT SLEEPING ON TIME.  Maybe we can pick one up this weekend, but I definitely didn’t want to have to spend money on replacing something that wasn’t even that old.

And we need that router.  We need it because we have no cable and the new seasons are all starting up.  WE NEED IT NAO.

In other news, I’m hoping the new temp agency I signed up with will prove helpful, since the old temp agency never contacted me once about anything.  Urgh.  But mostly my thoughts are consumed by YCON.