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Listening to Pink Floyd's "Animals" album. Man, it's been a long time since I've heard it.
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So I returned from work around 4 pm (I was doing some shopping and walked back home), I made myself a nice pot of tea, turned laptop on, wrote two posts, and decided to nap.
Not so fast said the pillow, holding me in its embrace for six hours. I don't remember hearing an alarm that I set for 6 pm, or if I actually did turned it on... Now it's 11 pm, and I am making some food before I go back to bed to be able to get up around 6 am, hopefully.
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Listening to Pink Floyd's "Animals" album. Man, it's been a long time since I've heard it.
I enjoy that period of Pink Floyd. That's a great album.
I've been digging on some Dark Side of the Moon these past few months. Really just a gem of an album, and as I grow older I find the themes of change, death and aging really resonate even more.
So I returned from work around 4 pm (I was doing some shopping and walked back home), I made myself a nice pot of tea, turned laptop on, wrote two posts, and decided to nap.
Not so fast said the pillow, holding me in its embrace for six hours. I don't remember hearing an alarm that I set for 6 pm, or if I actually did turned it on... Now it's 11 pm, and I am making some food before I go back to bed to be able to get up around 6 am, hopefully.
Sleep well Dragon!
Bus driving done, now time to grab a few hours before the overnight. I need to straighten out my PbPs, my resume, and my list of potential employers. Fortunately I'll have eight hours tonight, and then several more days after to get the stuff done.
School's out for summer!
School's out for...at least two more years
School will transition into
Law school
Oh God no! You are a masochist! :-)
So I returned from work around 4 pm (I was doing some shopping and walked back home), I made myself a nice pot of tea, turned laptop on, wrote two posts, and decided to nap.
Not so fast said the pillow, holding me in its embrace for six hours. I don't remember hearing an alarm that I set for 6 pm, or if I actually did turned it on... Now it's 11 pm, and I am making some food before I go back to bed to be able to get up around 6 am, hopefully.
Hey, sometimes you need sleep!
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Milovila, a happy, hedonistic fey, whose sole aim in the life is to be happy, and to make others happy and enjoy the pleasures of life, wherever they like it or not!I'm not sure "sedating" is the word you want in those ability names. It usually refers to something that causes sleep, which is what I expected in the descriptions. Maybe shimmering or scintillating?Have I used too wide interpretation of sedating - to pacify (as derived from sedate "calm, quiet, undisturbed"), often used to describe what you do to patients?
Those abilities cause unconscious (if used to deal enough non-lethal damage) or protect allies from pain by numbing it, and making the subject undisturbed by it.
Maybe "sedative bolt/blast" would be better?
As an adjective "sedate" means calm, but as a verb it is a back-formation of "sedation" - the act of putting someone to sleep by administering a drug.
Maybe palliative blast, or euphoric blast?
I am finally getting around to watching Samurai Jack for the first time. All I cna say is that it is now in my top twenty Anime list.
I woke up around 4:30, I got up around 5:30... I could use more food that I am currently having (not counting things frozen in the fridge). I can make myself single bun for work or eat it now.
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I'm officially calling it: my #1 surreal moment of the first half of 2017 is hearing "Hotline Bling" by Drake as a "bumper" segment on NPR.
I am finally getting around to watching Samurai Jack for the first time. All I cna say is that it is now in my top twenty Anime list.
Samurai Jack is teh Awesome.
That is all.
Congratz to you Pat! I know your happy to be done with those classes. :)
But I'm afraid that I must agree withe the Storyteller Shadow above.
If your planning going to Law School? You are a masochist.
A masochist with a plan for an interesting career and a brighter financial future, but a masochist nonetheless. ;P
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Meh. I just spent the last year working three jobs and commuting four hours twice a week to go to college at age 49.
Masochism is in my nature. :P
That is great. I am 32 right now and I want to study Medicine as soon as I am able to afford it (that might be never).
I think it's never too late to do what you really want to do.
So we have a Masochist Monkey in the house?
That is great. I am 32 right now and I want to study Medicine as soon as I am able to afford it (that might be never).
I think it's never too late to do what you really want to do.
It never is too late. Visualize your dreams and work towards them. It might not be the easiest road, but it can be climbed.
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Back from the SW session and off to bed.
Good: I got rid of Freedon Nadd's spirit from my head.
Bad: A group of Sith/Kraith cultists extracted it after drugging me, when I went for a night with a local noble-cultist (For the Glory of Rebellion!)
Good: I can still purchase Force Sensitive talent tree if I want...
Bad: I don't have that kind of experience available or place for it in schedule of spending future xp for a long-long time.
Also Good: Apparently they have little reverence for their great teacher and creator, instead they bound him into an item, and I can sense its location...
Congratz to you Pat! I know your happy to be done with those classes. :)
But I'm afraid that I must agree withe the Storyteller Shadow above.
If your planning going to Law School? You are a masochist.
A masochist with a plan for an interesting career and a brighter financial future, but a masochist nonetheless. ;P
You would be surprised how many poor attorneys there are out there. IF you can get a job with market saturation... the law practice ain't what it used to be!
Well, I can hope. I don't need much, and I can work with 50K a year easily.
It's either that or sub-standard wages on three jobs for the rest of whatever life I can continue before I wreck my health.
And who knows? Maybe I'll be content with paralegal status. Time will tell
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You would be surprised how many poor attorneys there are out there. IF you can get a job with market saturation... the law practice ain't what it used to be!Congratz to you Pat! I know your happy to be done with those classes. :)
But I'm afraid that I must agree withe the Storyteller Shadow above.
If your planning going to Law School? You are a masochist.
A masochist with a plan for an interesting career and a brighter financial future, but a masochist nonetheless. ;P
This.
I see it a lot.
The issue isn't the salary per se - an associate attorney can find a job at 50-60k pretty readily. The issue is net take home after student loans. I don't have a problem with law school as a career path, but people need to be careful how much debt they are taking on. If you are paying 1500-2000 per month on debt, 50k is not going to cover one's cost of living.
Source: I provide financial advisory services to a lot of law firms (among a few other industries) and have sat down with their staff to go over their budgets and financial plans. It isn't pretty.
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That is great. I am 32 right now and I want to study Medicine as soon as I am able to afford it (that might be never).
I think it's never too late to do what you really want to do.
I sometimes think if I could do it all over again, I'd have done a premed to med school path.
I sometimes think if I could do it all over again, I'd have done a premed to med school path.That is great. I am 32 right now and I want to study Medicine as soon as I am able to afford it (that might be never).
I think it's never too late to do what you really want to do.
Not Julliard?
Gratz TOZ for graduating!
Went down before midnight, woke up before 5 am, got up around 5:30. After returning from work I should do a few things: pay an electricity bill, do a laundry, write something, play some games...
Will I crash instead or not?
Stay tuned in!
Or not, it's not that interesting, seeing adult man oversleeping his nap.
Congratulations, TOZ!
You would be surprised how many poor attorneys there are out there. IF you can get a job with market saturation... the law practice ain't what it used to be!Congratz to you Pat! I know your happy to be done with those classes. :)
But I'm afraid that I must agree withe the Storyteller Shadow above.
If your planning going to Law School? You are a masochist.
A masochist with a plan for an interesting career and a brighter financial future, but a masochist nonetheless. ;P
This.
I see it a lot.
The issue isn't the salary per se - an associate attorney can find a job at 50-60k pretty readily. The issue is net take home after student loans. I don't have a problem with law school as a career path, but people need to be careful how much debt they are taking on. If you are paying 1500-2000 per month on debt, 50k is not going to cover one's cost of living.
Source: I provide financial advisory services to a lot of law firms (among a few other industries) and have sat down with their staff to go over their budgets and financial plans. It isn't pretty.
Luckily I will only have 10K in debt from this round. Of course I also have the lovely 14K loan my ex abandoned on my head (Pro tip: NEVER co-sign any loans. Because you never know people). As for future law school. It would be a piecemeal thing. I would likely try to pay for it as I went, a class here, a class there.
I think first I will concentrate on Microsoft certs this summer. Easy and look nice on a resume. Plus, I have a feeling me and the computer will be good friends soon.
I didn't feel like having coffee this morning. I didn't want it yesterday morning, either. Of course, I drank it because I don't want the caffeine withdrawal headache. But I didn't want it.
Something is very wrong with the universe.
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I think first I will concentrate on Microsoft certs this summer. Easy and look nice on a resume. Plus, I have a feeling me and the computer will be good friends soon.
Don't they charge out the wazoo for those? It's part of the vicious "keep older people out of the job market" cycle. You can be fresh out of school or have these 20 certs we won't pay for to prove to us that your skills are current. Of course, the certs won't guarantee you a job, you just keep dropping $4-5,000 every few months in a wild guess as to what cert the next employer will want. Certification roulette!
I sometimes think if I could do it all over again, I'd have done a premed to med school path.That is great. I am 32 right now and I want to study Medicine as soon as I am able to afford it (that might be never).
I think it's never too late to do what you really want to do.
I would have done a combo of philosophy and creative writing.
Luckily I will only have 10K in debt from this round. Of course I also have the lovely 14K loan my ex abandoned on my head (Pro tip: NEVER co-sign any loans. Because you never know people). As for future law school. It would be a piecemeal thing. I would likely try to pay for it as I went, a class here, a class there.You would be surprised how many poor attorneys there are out there. IF you can get a job with market saturation... the law practice ain't what it used to be!Congratz to you Pat! I know your happy to be done with those classes. :)
But I'm afraid that I must agree withe the Storyteller Shadow above.
If your planning going to Law School? You are a masochist.
A masochist with a plan for an interesting career and a brighter financial future, but a masochist nonetheless. ;P
This.
I see it a lot.
The issue isn't the salary per se - an associate attorney can find a job at 50-60k pretty readily. The issue is net take home after student loans. I don't have a problem with law school as a career path, but people need to be careful how much debt they are taking on. If you are paying 1500-2000 per month on debt, 50k is not going to cover one's cost of living.
Source: I provide financial advisory services to a lot of law firms (among a few other industries) and have sat down with their staff to go over their budgets and financial plans. It isn't pretty.
I know of a few people who dropped out of Law School to stick with the Paralegal gig. In the right setting you'll be happier in the long run.
IO almost said happier off, not sure if that's a thing... But it is amusing me so I thought I'd share.
Yes, Congrats to TOZ. I assume he is hanging out in another Tree House round here have not seen him post here in some time.
I think first I will concentrate on Microsoft certs this summer. Easy and look nice on a resume. Plus, I have a feeling me and the computer will be good friends soon.Don't they charge out the wazoo for those? It's part of the vicious "keep older people out of the job market" cycle. You can be fresh out of school or have these 20 certs we won't pay for to prove to us that your skills are current. Of course, the certs won't guarantee you a job, you just keep dropping $4-5,000 every few months in a wild guess as to what cert the next employer will want. Certification roulette!
I have a buddy who is in IT and gets a few per year, his company generally pays so I suppose that offsets the cost but they appear to be good to have in the IT world.
Hey, everybody. TOZ is graduating tonight. I asked him to post on Deep 6 when He's done. Anyone who wants to post a congratulatory message may do so, and raise a glass to his success.
Wat? Way to go, TOZ!! We are a cadre of self-improvers!
Learning to program by learning hardware and assembler first is the best way to do it, I swear.
I didn't own a computer until 1996. It was stolen from the company I worked for by a coworker. In fact, my next computer was stolen by the same guy and given to me. WIN 95 on the first one and 98 on the second one.
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Ah yes, the good old TRS-80 PC's. Or as we used to call them.
The "TRaSh-80's" ;P
Yes, the first model had NO hard memory, You had to type in everything you wanted from a program book, (That was inevitably riddled with mistakes, which you then had to go, find, and correct) and you could 'save' your program on, wait for it kiddies,...
A cassette deck. Yep, the old standard Radio Shack cassette player got a facelift so it could be the official hard drive of the TRS-80 model 1. That and a pile of 5-10 minute looping cassette tapes and you could save your programs!
Models 2 and 3 introduced the floppy disk. NO more cassettes! :D
MAN, that memory does not make me feel any younger,... ;P
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Not Julliard?I sometimes think if I could do it all over again, I'd have done a premed to med school path.That is great. I am 32 right now and I want to study Medicine as soon as I am able to afford it (that might be never).
I think it's never too late to do what you really want to do.
Well... maybe...
Although nothing is stopping me from pursuing that career path now, apart from fear of poverty.
I live below the poverty level for a single person in my home state. After 10 years you almost get used to it.
I would have done a combo of philosophy and creative writing.I sometimes think if I could do it all over again, I'd have done a premed to med school path.That is great. I am 32 right now and I want to study Medicine as soon as I am able to afford it (that might be never).
I think it's never too late to do what you really want to do.
I'd have done a hell of a lot more partying and a lot less studying, given that my degree means f+*# all in the current job market. Might as well get drunk for the apocalypse.
After 10 years you almost get used to it.
Almost.