A for-real cloak? How cool.
I'm jealous. I wish I had a black cloak with a red lining. (Both for real and for my avi)

I have a dark green cloak that I made back in eighth grade for Holloween one year. It's pretty short on me now.

Dark green sound pretty... think I could get it for my avi? :)

Well, it's more of a physically present in the real world cloak.

Oh, and on a side note: I'M GOING TO LONDON!!! Friday, that is.

Yay London. I would *love* to go to Europe.

My hubbie unfortunately feels that going out of the country is like travelling with a large target on our chests. He doesn't feel safe at all.

So we stay here....

Yeah, okami! I myself will be in chicago by then :)

And yes psyrien is making a real cloak. I am suppose to too, but feel cheap and too busy and then want time in a differente world so yeah, no cloak for me, I had/have one though.

not much to report, I am working chocolate job every day till i leave, then hanging out with dad tomorrow.

Oh. Have fun with that.

Hey, do you have any suggestions as to where I should go whilst in London?? My friends and I are trying to compile a list since we have one and a half days free to explore.

Chicago, d2hiriyuu? If you get a chance, come out to the suburbs, and meet me!

d2 - chocolate job? What kind was that again?

You must hate the smell of chocolate by now.

@Jeannesha - I still like chocolate, and it's smell, I jsut am now picky about hte type of chocolate I eat (no hershey's for me). The job is that I do enrobing and packaging at a chocolate factory (small), for a chocolatier...my boss.

@Heiyuu, which suburb are you? Psyrien and I will both be in chicago soon, I wouldn't mind meeting you someplace.

@okami places to go eh? um, there is that famous small market place, it was ok, personally, I loved the palace gardens. Also sthere are some awesome museums there, hm, maybe go see the cloisters? (thinks they were in london, is having a cold and can't think well). Other than that, visit touristy places, or semi touristy places, they have good shopping there, and great historical parts.

-waves to everyone- Hello everyone, are you guys today?

pretty well, leaving tomorrow for chicago!

Hi Addina... doing fine.

d2, I love Chicago...but I haven't been there very often.
My hubbie and I went there for our honeymoon. (Strange place to go for a honeymoon, but there you are). We loved all the museums. Do they still have that U boat there? That was so cool.

U boat... I should ask boyfriend, native person and historian of chicago, not really, but he remembers stuff like that easily. I'm counting hours.... me silly, down to 10. Everything packed, and done, jsut need to shut off comp.

See ya in Chicago, dragon!

And now I am going release my bottled up innards upon you in the form of a rant. The topic is internships and money. I warn you that it will be long, whiny, and tedious. Do not read if you have the stomach for any of the above.

I don't really know how to write a resume. Despite my ability to write great essays and stories, I have no knowledge on how to write a resume. I remember briefly going over the topic in high school, but I walked away from it still wondering what I was supposed to do. I think the teacher hated our class and so purposefully replaced the resume assignment that year with something stupid and un-useful, but that hate is another story.

So I just kinda wrote something. Yeah, it sounds nice and all, and it's grammatically correct, but I don't know if it's enough--if it's even close to enough--if it's anything near what they're looking for. Am I supposed to submit a portfolio of works? If so, do they want my high school one that's mostly just art? Or do they want something more professional? I don't have anything more professional! I just have me, and I can't very well send them my crying and overnighter experiences in a box much less an email.

I sent it off to a million different people that got recommended to me by this guy who turned me down for an internship. For someone who turned me down, he was actually pretty helpful. But the people he recommended to me--when he did that, it was last summer. The economy changes. People change. Opportunities change. I couldn't get my old waitressing job this winter. What if nothing's left?

And it's not just the fact that I may not get an internship. It's the fact that I may not get a job that pays money, which I am going to need very much next year. That beautiful condo that I'll be renting with dragon is a lot more expensive than I warranted. I didn't think about the separate electricity bill or the monthly internet charge. Well, I did think about them, but I didn't think that they were so much.

I have come to the conclusion that I must make at least $2000 each summer. My old waitressing job, while having very good tips, did not give me enough hours. I need another job or a better one.

SLDKFJSDLKJLSJ. *explodes*

I kind of have the same problem, Psyrien. Only I'll never be able to have an internship because an internship for teaching is called student teaching, and, well, obviously student teaching can't be done when there aren't any kids in school. i.e. Summer. So, my only option is an actual job. However, my only job experience is my work study in the Dean's office and the library. That and pet sitting. So I basically have no retail experience, except for when I volunteered at the Humane Society Gift shop about 3 to 5 times the fall semester of my freshman year of high school. Yet, I REALLY need a job this summer. If I don't get a job, I'll have no money, and that's not a good thing when you're going to France the next semester and need money for a couple of lunches and souvenirs and then if you want to travel a bit.... I NEED MONEY. There's no way to get past it. And besides that, my Mom is still unemployed and my Dad's going into the Peace Corps. My family almost literally has no money. And I'm going to become a teacher! Money will be a problem all my life, I guess. I hate the guy who invented currency. The barter system was just so much better. I wouldn't have minded trading stuff that I don't want anymore to go to school. That would have been awesome (or amusing, depending on what century you're in. Don't ask; it's a Harlaxton thing).

So, there's my rant.

Oh, and I have a cold. Right when I'm going to go to London for three days, I come down with a bloody cold.

And get used to the British words, they're going to continue to pop up all over the place. Like how we aren't taking a bus to London, we're taking a coach. However, the shuttles we take to get us between the Manor and Grantham and minibuses not minicoaches. Seriously. There worse at keeping words related that Americans!

And then, there's cheers. No one has quite figured out what that word actually means over here. We're thinking it has multiple meanings. There's the American meaning, and then we think it can also mean thank you because store clerks use it after you've bought something, and somehow it seems like it might also be some sort of slang for goodbye.

Anyway, I'm rambling now, so I think I'll stop. Yeah.

Originally Posted by d2hiriyuu

@Heiyuu, which suburb are you? Psyrien and I will both be in chicago soon, I wouldn't mind meeting you someplace.

Buffalo Grove. It's a ways out of the city, but a fairly quick train ride if you wanna come out by me and do lunch or something.

psyrien and okami,

I feel so badly for both of you. In this economy, not only do those with jobs have to worry about *keeping* their jobs... but those of you who are just starting to be in the market for jobs are having so much trouble *finding* a job. Any job.

Unfortunately it's going to get worse before it gets better. I wish I could give you advice. My background is in the high tec areas, which approach internships quite differently. Most of our recruiting went through the colleges and universities.

As i will probably have a similar rant in the end to the others. I am annoyed more than anything, my mom wants me to quit my current jobs to apply for others, I am happy for even having job/jobs. So then it is so pointless, in my mind cause I will probably loose my job, and not get an internship anyway. it bugs me as well, cause I honestly like psyrien, know that money is needed, especially for the condo. In the end, I have a rant, I know what is going on, I understand I am better off than most, but it bugs me alot cause I don't think it is very good for alot of the people i know. I am lucky to even be able to keep my jobs over the school year without doing it.

May I repeat the same rant? I'm searching for a job myself, and failing to find one.

*group hugs everyone* It seems we're all in the same boat. Boo on the job market. xP

yeah, job market really not that much fun. and psyrien, have you looked at the book and essay for the studio? i see it at 140...

140? What are you talking about? o_0 The price at amazon is as low as $9.98, and I believe there's around 300 pages or more in there, so I don't know what you're talking about.

But boo on us having an essay for studio. I see myself writing a lot of papers this coming semester. @[email protected]

Man I'm glad that I don't have to go through the whole school thing anymore!

Although it would be nice to take some classes just for the fun of it. Learning what I want to without having to worry about a grade.

yes we do, and found the book, yeah, hence my issue, I can't apprently find what I look for on amazon. not my fault....

And we will be writing lots of papers. also gotten no word back about my grade.

and today is play PS2, kingdom hearts: chian of memories all day long :) (Mark has to go to a wake).