Dreams

I dreamt I was nominated for the Hugo last night.

I also dreamt that thomasyan and I went to the same highschool and I had to pick him up to drive to school, and that rax and I went to Philadelphia and stopped at a window display at Macy's where Paula-Abdul-esque music was blaring so that girls whose handbags had been converted to rollerskates could put on a window display and a guy who looked like security staff but who was actually part of the show could do bike tricks on the stairs. We ran into q10 there and were mutually confused at each other regarding the window display.

So, being nominated for the Hugo was the most realistic part of my dream last night. :)

Life Changes

So for those of you who don't already know, I've left my job; my official last day was last month (technially, first day of this month, actually). It was a conscious decision on my part, because having it was not helping me, and was not helping the job, and working harder to make it work didn't. I'm sad, because I'm stubborn and would have liked to see it work out, and expected and wanted better from myself, but it didn't work out, and I wish the job and company itself well.

This would seem to imply I had a lot of free time. That's somewhat true--I'm trying to make plans to visit some folks, and doing things like a puppetry internship here--but I'm also trying to rework my life.

I'm trying to spend part of every morning writing, and afternoons doing stuff like reworking my resume or looking for jobs--it's time for a career change (though I'm not sure what I would enjoy doing that would also pay--those categories seem to be almost mutually exclusive--I do have some criteria I'm looking for). And it's time to go back to grad school...I'm currently researching programs at IU for a master's. There's a great PhD minor in Landscape Studies I'd like to do, but when I talked to the department chair a month ago he said the best thing to try would be getting a masters' first, then the PhD, so I'm going with that advice.

But I'm also trying to pack for my and rax's impending move to Indiana. We will probably be moving in mid-May, if all goes well.

We just had an offer accepted on a house, and I get to deal with figuring out what things on the inspection report we should really fix and which things would be nice to fix and which things I can fix and which things don't really need to be fixed. It's a lovely house. Fireplace! Deck! Yard!

So much!