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allekhaSo, I talked with the HR person, and she said they wanted me to start on January 3rd. As I started asking more questions, she started to get the feeling that this was maybe a little ambitious if they want me in person full-time, since I would need to move from several states away with Christmas and New Year's in the way. I still do not know if they need me in person full time or not. I told her I could start then if it was remote/hybrid, but it sounds like there might be tax issues and she needs to contact the department and... anyway, she said she would email by the end of the day but she didn't, so it seems like things might be complicated 😅 Hopefully that gets sorted soon. Benefits and pay sound good, though the hours start a bit early for me. And this place is very close to a rink that has skating time pretty much all day!
(Z is kind of having a hard time, so I am hoping to get the okay to do remote/hybrid, at least at first, so I can be around to support him as he finishes his thesis.)
One thing I've been curious to try for a while is absinthe, so I used this as an excuse to buy some. I'm not an alcohol person, but I do like licorice and herby things, and it looks pretty in those ~*~evil green fairy~*~ paintings. The bottles at the store were dusty, but they had a few, and it turns out I do like it. The bottle even came with a cheap version of the fancy-dancy spoons, which I have yet to use because who buys sugar cubes, I've just poured in the water and sugar.
In other news, I have finally decided to sit down and learn How Does Self-Publishing Work because someday might as well be now and I might as well try it out. Though I am writing something that's a bit less precious and more market targeted than my existing origfic that all needs editing and/or rewriting anyway, and I'm learning a lot more about How To Plot from it, so there's that if nothing else comes of it. I have a checklist of things to do after it's written, so that needs to happen first! I've made good progress on it, though.
I do find it kind of interesting how from what I've found, some self-pub spaces (esp. romance/erotica) emphasize the ability to DIY/ignore a lot of stuff more than others. Like one place would tell you that you could reasonably get started with $50 to buy some stock images and set up a website/mailing list, and another pushes more of 'you need a developmental editor, you need a copyeditor, you need to pay someone else a lot for a cover, you need to pay to copyright your work' to the point where you could be spending closer to $1k if you did go for everything, and people post reports where they spent even more on their first book! I really wonder if there is some difference in genre tolerance for amateurish attempts, or if it's a difference in business-mindedness/just get the damn book out attitudes (and who is actually making money off this endeavor).
(Z is kind of having a hard time, so I am hoping to get the okay to do remote/hybrid, at least at first, so I can be around to support him as he finishes his thesis.)
One thing I've been curious to try for a while is absinthe, so I used this as an excuse to buy some. I'm not an alcohol person, but I do like licorice and herby things, and it looks pretty in those ~*~evil green fairy~*~ paintings. The bottles at the store were dusty, but they had a few, and it turns out I do like it. The bottle even came with a cheap version of the fancy-dancy spoons, which I have yet to use because who buys sugar cubes, I've just poured in the water and sugar.
In other news, I have finally decided to sit down and learn How Does Self-Publishing Work because someday might as well be now and I might as well try it out. Though I am writing something that's a bit less precious and more market targeted than my existing origfic that all needs editing and/or rewriting anyway, and I'm learning a lot more about How To Plot from it, so there's that if nothing else comes of it. I have a checklist of things to do after it's written, so that needs to happen first! I've made good progress on it, though.
I do find it kind of interesting how from what I've found, some self-pub spaces (esp. romance/erotica) emphasize the ability to DIY/ignore a lot of stuff more than others. Like one place would tell you that you could reasonably get started with $50 to buy some stock images and set up a website/mailing list, and another pushes more of 'you need a developmental editor, you need a copyeditor, you need to pay someone else a lot for a cover, you need to pay to copyright your work' to the point where you could be spending closer to $1k if you did go for everything, and people post reports where they spent even more on their first book! I really wonder if there is some difference in genre tolerance for amateurish attempts, or if it's a difference in business-mindedness/just get the damn book out attitudes (and who is actually making money off this endeavor).
