One Month Later...

Wow, has it been almost a month since I last posted on here? Yeah, it sure has.

The classroom training is now over and we are beginning the last three weeks of the overall training with being on the phones and watched like hawks. After that, eight more weeks of some program that's like training but not (what?) and that's it. I'll be done. In January 2015, I'll be sorted into a team and hopefully be a contributing member of that group.

I thought I wouldn't like working at a call center, but it's really not that bad. Even when listening into calls, I've only heard a scant few irate ones. The rest of the time: either no answer or mostly people who sound dejected but are willing to do something. But I'm not unloading any of my armor at all. This could be the calm before the storm. 

I love my new co-workers/classmates. We've been in the classroom, studying and role-playing and listening to other Specialists do their own calls for four weeks (all of October pretty much) and when our training manager asked us yesterday if we were ready for the phones, we were all:

yeah, I love the Game Grumps. Shut up.

We are ready to rumble with the big dogs!

I'm so excited and antsy to get on the phones and take everything I've learned and do something with it. I hate learning something and then not applying it to anything. One of the main reasons I love trivia games: the only good reason to learn random-ass things*.

*first-world eidetic memory problems
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Of course I am doing NaNoWriMo this year. Mostly, I'm going to work on previous projects, invoking the good ol' Zokutou clause this time. Funnily enough, I came up with an original idea only a few days before starting, but I'm sticking with my original plan. Maybe I'll save the new idea for Camp NaNoWriMo or next year's NaNo. We'll see.

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Very likely, I am not going to post all that much about my NaNo projects unless I either make the goals, change them, or cancel them. Same goes with general posting. I'm still trying to get a handle on my time between shifts and what little free time I actually have to get everything I want to get done, well, done.

Until I figure that out, expect not much to go on here. And when you see an increase of posts, you can be sure that, yeah, I did finally figure it out.

Yeah, and Texas goes Democrat this year. *pfft*

Hey, remember me?

I'm that frustrated lady writer, blogging about music and books and her novel project? Yeah, I'm now back. I took some leave of absence (nothing serious, just too lazy). In all honesty, the GRE was a big shocker moment, though I didn't want to admit it at the time. Oh yeah and laziness.

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I took the GRE on a mostly-sunny day, but it rained hard just as my mom was picking me up. So I was right on my prediction. Obviously, I can't reveal what questions I took, but you wouldn't give a damn anyway. But lemme tell you, the Math sections seriously destroyed me. It is a miracle I barely passed that section. As for the Verbals, I think I got near or to the goal I set for myself. Since it's a possibility that the scores are curved, who the hell knows now? I won't know for sure until mid-November anyway.

But yes, I walked away, a nearly-broken woman. It was a teaching moment, but it really hurt. And even if I wanted to take it again, it would be too late. The scores wouldn't arrive in time for the deadline for the grad school I want to apply for.

If I have read correctly, the scores may not even matter for the school I'm thinking of applying for. They only care about the writing sample. Man, I hope so.

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So now begins the most important part of the process: the writing sample and SOP (Statement of Purpose). I'm either thinking of submitting an older story or a newer one I just got inspired to do.

Stay tuned for a random-ass announcement.

Alright, I'm back!

Hey y'all, long time, no see. Just posted stuff about Retromania and vanished off into the woods. After getting lost and confused (mostly the latter), I have found my way back to my beloved blog. I have plans to finish up the "24 Reviews..." with a rant on a book for record-collecting gals, Jerry Harrison's second album, Lindsey Buckingham's new album, and wrapping it all up with Murakami's latest tome. Looks like the goal is a surefire finish!

I had also made a grievous error. The blog will have its fifth birthday in 2012, not this year. Whoops! I accidentally math.

Some fantastic news: my all-time favorite novel is getting a reprint! But why, when Google auto-completes searches, is there "a house like a lotus movie"? World, is there something you're not telling me? Then again, you can do this for The Secret History by Donna Tartt and get "the secret history movie". So who knows? Maybe there are curious folks such as myself. But man... I only hope that I will be the intrepid screenwriter of the adaptation. It's one of my biggest dreams.

In lieu of the big news about A House Like A Lotus (yes, its reprinting warrants a party, okay?), I will reread all of the Time Quartet and the O'Keefe Family series.

There you have it. Here's to actually doing what I'm gonna do!