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I got a job offer. A permanent gig in an academic library, one step below librarian but I don't have my Masters yet so it is to be expected. I can advance though and after working there for a year I can take classes for free so I'll be starting that Masters in Museum Studies I've always dreamed about. And taking Italian and German. :3

I'm starting my career. YAY!

Of course I have to miss SDCC since the gig starts June 20th and puts me back in Texas but it would either be SDCC or graduation and for once I kind of care about graduation. I'm not even going to take my Gameboy, I'm breaking my Kingdom Hearts CoM tradition and not playing it at a grad. I still need to look up what colors our hoods are going to be.

Needless to say commissions are closed now, I have just enough free time to finish everything in the works atm. When they are finished I will not be taking on anymore, even if my temp gig expires I'm supposed to be putting out academic articles/papers if I hope to move up the ranks. And I do. Because I have to be awesome to compete in the international job market and I want to work in a European library for at least a little bit.

Oh, and I got to CA just fine this evening. It was super windy from West Texas to Perris but I managed.

Ugh, this is one of those terrible journals where I explain why pretty much nothing is on schedule any more. And I mean nothing. It is a combo of good things and meh things and a little bit of not so good things. That is how I will break it up.

Good:

One of the professors from undergraduate that I've kept up with emailed me mid April about a temp job which I started the last week of April. This has been the biggest drain on my time as I'm allowed to work as much as 35 hours a week and because the pay is awesome I'm trying to get as close to that as possible but pretty much hitting 25-30 hours consistantly. I love my job, I'm researching Norse myth and will start Celtic Myth in June and if the schedule is held then doing Arthurian Myth in July. I'm working hard to do well since it has been hinted they will keep me on if they like my work.

Meh:

Because of a misunderstanding I'm moving out a week earlier than planned so my soon to be roommate is taking less of a loss on rent. She thought I was moving in May 1st not June 1st so I'm compromising with May 20th (happy 23rd b-day me). Leaving a week early meant a week less to complete all obligations including the new 25-30 hour a week hole in my schedule. Were I leaving a week later this journal would not exist.

Jane Eyre demanded to be read which got me to read Sense and Sensibility and that is the topic of the Jane Austen Essay contest this year, if I win I get to go to the annual JASNA meeting for free and get my paper published (which is the important bit). The topic is SUCKTASTIC though so it is taking longer than I would like.

Actually had a job interview for a different, perm job. I was worthless the whole day leading up to it because it has taken two years to get one (temp job was just a facebook note asking if I wanted to do it or not). They seemed to like me but I'd be moving back to Central Texas and I'd possibly miss SDCC. Sad but a professional job is a professional job and there is no way I can turn it down (barring a better offer). And then I'd be set up for the 2013 MotoGP race in Austin.

Not so Good:

Inspiration for In a Time of Zombies dried up. At the end of Chapter 5. Chapter 5 seems to always be my curse since I've been able to work on other chapters but it is no longer a May 15th release. Since I'm completely blowing my goal date I figure I might as well add another month and give my proof reader/critique peeps a more lax review schedule instead of 2 chapters a week. Looking for a Brit picker though, I've already had one inconsistancy pointed out (no blue box mac and cheese in Britain, who knew) and I'd like to make sure it is spic and span. The only thing I can offer is that you'll be getting a free read of the book since brit picking happens after grammar/proof reader has gotten their hands on it. And I'll throw in a copy of the finished product too.

School. So original but cataloging just about ate my soul. I'm glad I took the course as I learned a lot but it has been years since I've honestly been challenged by academic work. It is a rare thing for me. Then again MARC is pretty much a language and I've never been good at languages. Still mad we're probably dropping AACR2 in a few years for RDA. AACR2 sucks but RDA means way too much typing.

The current plush project of Skyfire is fighting me. I messed up the pattern ever so slightly so the proportion of the arms was off and it just bugged me too much to write off. I'm the poster girl for don't pattern when you're really tired. Super happy with the flannel though and he's looking good now that I've repatterned the arms.

Packing. Gah. I always think it will take two days but it never does since I'm trying to shoe horn my whole life into a compact car.

Summ:

So yeah, basically novel release has been pushed back until mid-July, Remnant is once again shelved because things are only getting crazier, plush commissions are still being worked on but I've got too many things on my plate so everything is slow going. I'm going to be just about completely offline from everything non-school until after Capstone finishes (June 20th). I'm moving next week, making Drag Strip the week after that, Botcon is the following week and then I roll into the start of my last semester and Capstone. After that I should have a few weeks to catch up then go radio silence again for SDCC, last few weeks of classes and graduation.

If you need me then note me on facebook since it'll shoot me an email which will go straight to my phone. If you don't know me irl (or some variant of that) then just look up Clara Kitridge.

I'll be happy to see you guys August 29th.

I finally finished chapter five of Remnant of Perfection. It is two years late but I finally figured it out.

OMG brain, not the best time for fanfic but yay on getting past that damn chapter. Chapter 6 will be up on monday, I've already reread it and made sure it fits with the rewrite of the first 4 chapters that I've done as well as the new chapter five. If inspiration holds out the finished story should be all published by the time TF3 comes out. Of course that is what I said before, when my goal was before TF2. Ah. Fanfic. Still enjoying all the bromance between Messa and Tracks, I forgot how much I liked writing their interactions (there is none in chapter five but I've been adding to the two components of the "sequel" to Remnant which is fun).

Also finished the prologue and first two chappies of my novel, sent them out to my writing group. Should get input tomorrow. If I can rewrite/clean up three chapters a week then I can have this book published in early May. Which would be nice. Unlike Remnant this is something I consider to be like a job so I'm a bit more inspired to finish on schedule.

Skyfire is coming along great now that I've solved the snafus. I found some inspiration while working on the design of MotoGP Fracture. Also managed to pattern Bulkhead too which is good. Should be done by early/mid April.

Debating what to do in regards to Arcee/Drag Strip. Logan's suggestion that I simply make a cover is actually very tempting. I love Arcee so I'm thinking of just making a Fracture cover and making a new Arcee.

As I mentioned, MotoGP Fracture is kind of driving me crazy, she doesn't want to wait until 2012 but I don't know if I have the time to do her, Drag Strip, Astoria (okay, she is only a day of work), G.I. Joe Renegades Baroness, finishing the editting of my novel to get it published, my school work, job apps and commissions (Skyfire, Bulkhead and possibly a Goldbug). I've got a little under two months until I leave for Botcon which is my deadline for everything previously listed. I think I'll still think about Fracture but she's got to be the bottom of the list.

I need more hours in the day! And I think my outline/story for ScriptFrenzy will have to be saved for next year. :T