Con, Sickness and my new Job

AggieCon is over. Thank the celestial beings whoever the hell they are. I've decided not to be as involved next year. I graduated from college and now I feel like I should graduate to helping with bigger conventions. I'll still help out if they ask me, but not as much as this year. Overall it went really well though. We had great feedback, especially about the programming and panels (which is what I did)! One lady even said it was the best AggieCon she'd been to in years. I wish I'd had more time to spend with my writer friends but they understand. Too bad I can't go to ConDFW this weekend. I was going to try to make it. But right now I really to take care of myself. Have some time off.
Because moving to my second topic, I'm SUPER sick. Not as sick today as last night (burning up, couldn't hardly move I ached so bad). I spent over 2 fucking hours in the doctor's office this morning. Don't they understand that most people in the doctor's office are not in the best moods because they're SICK! Geeze. Oh and I went through all that just to find out that I have a virus that will go away on its own. He just gave me a decongestant to treat the symptoms. Bull shit.
Oh and great just as I get sick I need to start my new job. Which is serving food to people! Luckily this week and next week is just training. The doctor said as long as I wasn't running a temperature I wasn't contagious. Hopefully I feel better tomorrow. I also have to go shopping for my loverly "country fresh" uniform. Oxford shirt, dark colored or khaki pants (cotton or cotton/polyester blend that can keep a crease), and I have to get rid of my beautiful manicure too. It's "Give me Moor" btw. We can only have clear nail polish. How lame? Oh well. I'm going to pretend that I'm going under cover. I'll probably end up falling into my old east texas accent too. Lol.

Well that's the update for now. When I get better I'll start writing again and then I'll have more stuff to blog about. *cough, cough* I'm gonna lay down again. Bleh.

Unemployed, Still...

So I graduated in December. Woo! Go me, right? Then why was I so scared? Oh yeah. That's right I didn't have a job already lined up for me like most people. That whole English majors will work at McDonald's. I'm trying REALLY hard to avoid it but it's looming closer and closer. I interview at the Temp agency next week. *forehead slap* But hey it's something until I can find a more permanent job. I joked that I wanted a SAJ (shitty ass job) after I graduated so that I would have time to concentrate on my writing! But now... I really don't want to end up in that SAJ. I just want a normal everyday job. Like as a receptionist. I sent out 11 resumes today. It's getting pretty depressing. But my boyfriend and I can get a washer and dryer next week! Woot. Clean clothes are definitely a plus.

I'm watching Project Runway re-runs while I send out resumes and work on AggieCon stuff. This weekend we'll be planning all the programming and panels. Yay! My favorite part.

And I know I promise this a lot. But I'm going to keep up with my blog now. Since I'm all out of school and supposed to be on my way to being a writer. So. Watch out world! Lola's on her way. Finally.

If this semester is ever over...

I will celebrate by finally getting my lip pierced. The past few days have been PURE HELL and my lovely boyfriend has been the only thing keeping me from falling apart. Also frequently being the object of distraction, but I'll forgive him for driving me around while sleep deprived, making sure I ate at least 2 meals a day and that I didn't have a full blown panic attack, although I came very close last night. Not a good week. But right now I am finishing (well about to be finishing after I write this) a paper and then I'll have another one to write by next week... if I get the extension I asked for. We'll see.

So, news on the home front:
New look for blog. Not sure how much I like it. The other one was more simple... I might change it again soon.
I was chosen to be the Programming Director for AggieCon 41!!! Woot! I've already got a huge spreadsheet of ideas going and so far the committee is looking like this will be the best AggieCon ever! I want us to do a Zombie theme. It would be AWESOME! Zombies are very in right now. I'm sure you'll hear more about AggieCon in the coming months. Which leads to...
This summer I'm going to be doing a huge convention marathon trying to make relations with regional guests and convince them AggieCon will be worth their time again. Plus getting ideas for programming and like last summer, I'll be applying to some writing workshops as well. So far on the line up for sure are Akon, ApolloCon and ArmadilloCon. I'm considering Fourth Street Convention, FiestaCon and ConQuest as well but there's a bit more traveling involved in those so we'll see which ones pan out.
Also! Not really related to AggieCon specifically, except that I'll probably get ideas for programming while I'm there, is that I'm submitting two abstracts for MythCon this summer. So if chosen I could go to LA to present a paper I've written! How cool would that be? Which reminds me I need to get back to my paper asap.

Oh sad news! Jenny Rappaport the literary agent of my dreams I wrote about previously got accepted to Odyssey. If only I had applied I could have met her! This sounds so silly but I'm very sure that we would get along great. Curse the fact that I'm graduating in December and really need to concentrate on applying to grad school. I'll meet her another way if it's meant to be. :/

Other than all that I'm just REALLY ready for the semester to be over. I'm moving home this summer, going to community college and hopefully working at the city library. I'm actually really excited about the prospect of working at the city library. It would be a childhood dream come true! I spent so many hours of my young child life in that library reading, good memories. Plus I've ALWAYS had a secret fantasy of being an awesome librarian. Now I can live it out!