Jabberwocky would like everyone to know that baths are bad, actually. Even if I managed to catch her at a point she wasn’t harshly glaring.
(Despite the doggerel in the title, this post does not, in fact, have the form of comic verse. More’s the pity.)
Been a few weeks, so it’s update time again! Whee, updates.
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Things have taken a turn for the rainy and cold in Seattle. It’s quite lovely in a lot of ways, though the reduced sunlight has my bird brain getting sleepy more easily than before. But having my apartment stay at a decent temperature with the windows closed is a nice change. Whenever it gets sunny around here, I have to crack a window or this place shoots up into the mid to high 70s. The double-edged sword of facing south.
Hopefully spooky season treated everyone well. A friend of mine had a spooky brunch, which was a nice time, though I felt a little awkward given how few people I knew there, and how well many of them knew each other. I’ve never been very good at joining in-person conversations already in progress, either, which didn’t help. I wish there was a social skills pack I could download into my brain, but in lieu of that I’ll just need to keep working on it. On Halloween proper I watched It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and ate probably-overpriced tiny candies. Turns out the only way I could get Reese’s Pumpkins was to buy a bag of fun-sized candy. Worth it. We also recorded a somewhat-heavy Primary Attribute episode earlier in the evening, so having some candy and a silly cartoon was a nice counterpoint.
Onto some more specific stuff:
Job Search
I’m still digging around for a job, like last time. I’ve given in and finally started applying to IT positions, as my unemployment runs out at roughly the end of this month, so I can’t just keep crossing my fingers on library positions. I’m extremely frustrated at the library job search going so poorly, especially given how many of the paraprofessional, not-Librarian jobs I applied to on top of the full librarianship gigs. I’m perfectly willing to do a non-librarian library job for a year or so to get more experience to be a more competitive applicant for the full-on librarian positions, but if even those aren’t getting to the interview stage I feel stuck on how I’m going to gain any of library experience they want at all. Right now, though, I’m shifting into aiming for just getting a decent-paying job so I can get some stability again. Make some money so I can support myself making art, and all that. I’ll try to keep looking for more library gigs in the future, though, and will keep applying even as I expand to IT jobs as well. Maybe I’ll get lucky.
Jabberwocky, The Dread Iguana
Turns out her blood test looked like she had a low-level infection, so she’s on a second course of antibiotics. Still getting baths every night, too. She hates ‘em still, along with hating getting an oral syringe of antibiotics in her mouth every other day. She seems to be holding up pretty well, though. Hopefully this second course of antibiotics will see her through. Both of us would love it if I stopped needing to medicate her like that.
Getting to see her get angry and frustrated at the evil bath every day is still funny, though. And kind of a nice bonding moment, in a weird way.
I’m also finalizing an enclosure upgrade to her humidity setup I’ve been working on for a long time. I think it’ll finally get done this week. One of those things that should have taken a weekend but instead has been worked on in drips and drabs for months and months. I’m not very good at this, sometimes. :\
Programming
I’ve been learning Python through the Python Crash Course book that No Starch Press put out a while ago. I’ve made it through the first seven chapters, just chipping away at about half an hour every day-ish. It’s more manageable that way. It’s interesting programming again. I’ve also become a terrible typist when it comes to programs, it seems, which is annoying. So many specific symbols being used so many odd places, I don’t have the flow like I do with just typing prose-like writing. That said, I do like exercising these parts of my brain again, and I’m looking forward to the projects that make up the second half of the book. I haven’t made any large/complex programs since college, and I think those skills are the ones I really need to rebuild if I want to use this programming as a real job skill beyond knocking out some simple scripts to help with minor things.
What I’m Reading/Watching/Listening/Playing
This section actually got so long I’m making it into a standalone post that’ll go up later this week! :O
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And that’s some of the highlights of where my life is at right now! I’m hoping to put up another blog post later this week, beyond the media-focused one, but given my update schedule lately we’ll see how things go.
How have things been for you?
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