What's This? Blogging?

Nicole here. I did promise to blog more, so here I go.

Things I Learned Today (b/c I do love me a good list):
1. The proper pace to perform CPR at is to the same beat as Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust." Irony, I smells it.
2. Job hunting sucks. Don't do it. I don't want the competition, and it's generally painful. More later.
3. My public presentations (nudity) for graduating are as follows:
a) Reading from my novel, TOMORROW
b) Craptastic, last minute presentation I pulled together for my fellowship, MAY 4.
I hate the vulnerability, hence the nudity.
4. I'm nearing page 80 of my novel, and that excites me like NONE OTHER. It's the longest single body of work that I have created to date.
5. Chuck is awesome, but Chevy Chase is evil.
6. Looking for Alaska is a great friggin book. Thank you John Green, I look forward to An Abundance of Katherines (in my pants).
7. My mother still thinks I'm a small child, who needs constant direction in every single aspect of my life, including, but not limited to:
a) job interviews
b) what jobs I should apply to
c) my choice in men
d) how to operate a stove
e) how I should deal with Other Human Beings
f) what my career goals should be
g) what my life plans should be
h) how much money I should demand for a job
Sometimes, my mom thinks I'm really awesome and should demand THE WORLD of people. Then, there are other times when she says things to the effect of: "Well, know your worth. You're despensible."


I think that's all I can cram into a list at the moment. Now, on to job hunting.

OMG, I friggin HATE job hunting. It's time consuming, exhausting and generally unfulfilling. No one gets back to you, no one makes it easy to find a phone number for you to get back to THEM, everyone demands that you have more 'experience' than a normal person should have, and it's just painful all around. I have currently applied to...7 jobs (? -- I might have rounded) and have sort-of-kind-of heard back from one, a full-time position at the job I already work at as an intern. And I'm jumping through all sorts of friggin hoops for it, which is just uncool. It's been about three weeks now, and I'm still waiting to hear a 'yes' or 'no' and I won't hear definitely one way or the other until Friday. FRIDAY! It makes me want to flail about and hit things while terribly drunk. And the thing is, the job is AWESOME. Yes, it's in children's music (kind of) and I'll have to learn new stuff (which I'm totally cool with), but it shouldn't be this hard. If I got the job, I'd supposedly be 'in charge' of a 25-city mall tour. Travel (+)! Malls (meh)! Pre-teens (uuuuhhhh....)! Whatever.

I also applied to some bitchin' jobs at various publishing houses which would ROCK if I got them, but I'm not holding my breath.

So yes. That has been my epic last few days/weeks (time: it's kind of melding together into one endless hallway of wakefulness briefly punctuated by restless sleep).

In other news, my ex is driving me absolutely insane. *eye roll*

Well, back to writing.

BEST WISHES!!!! - N