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  I don't know what is up with Blogger, but it won't let me resize images. Seriously annoying.  I had a nightmare last night. But this time, I won. I was in some sort of building, and Brian or Mark hopped into an elevator with me. I seemed to remember a previous dream where if you clicked on a certain button order, it would take you to a spirit world; only I couldn't remember which order. I clicked on some buttons, and they were the wrong ones. I entered into a different spirit world, one that seemed to run like an authoritarian private school. While exploring, I ran into a Master Gardener that I knew, although I couldn't place her name. We sat together for a while, and I pulled up my laptop to email someone back home (it felt like Garrick Hansen, although I never placed a name) who knows about the original spirit world to let them know that I ended up in someplace different and needed help getting back. I was also letting them know that I ran into this other person, wh...

First thing's first: I really miss the icons I got to choose with each post on LiveJournal, so I'm putting one here. Blogger is seriously such a crappy platform, I'm thinking about going back to LiveJournal even against all my principals. I just worry what will happen to all my memories in LJ when I'm 90 and can't access them anymore. All that stuff... I need to find a way to export it. On with the topic of the post. I'm currently taking a Haunted House writing class (along with a Magic Castle production class), which is an offshoot of the TECWS theme park design workshop I took over the summer. I took a different writing class, which was a huge disappointment; so much so that I almost canceled my enrollment in this one.  I'm so glad I didn't. The instructor for this class is PHE-NO-ME-NAL. He is so attentive, helpful, and knowledgeable. I think the problem with the last one was that, as nice as he was, he had no practical experience. This guy, Ted Dough...

  Did I mention there's a pandemic going on? I think we're in month 6 now. It feels so much longer than that.  Anyway, I recently watched Avatar: The Last Airbender on Netflix, and now I'm watching The Legend of Korra. I never really had a desire to watch it: it sounded stupid and I'm not into that anime style (anymore). So even though many people had praised it, I ignored it. Until my old coworker Meg mentioned how amazing it was and was encouraging our other coworker, Erin, to watch it. It got me second guessing. It kept popping up on Netflix (I now know that's because it's been #1 on Netflix for almost 3 months now. The highest ranked show on Netflix ever. Wow), so I decided to watch it after I had finished my other series.  Holy crap. It is one of the most addictive shows I have ever watched, and every second of it is engaging. It has some of the best writing in media history, honestly. It's smart writing. It assumes the watcher is intelligent and procee...

So it's big a long while since I've posted here. It's just not as fun since I left LiveJournal. A lot of it has to do with the theme options on Blogger, which are next to none and pretty horrible. I simply don't enjoy looking at my own page. It's been such a long time that a whole pandemic has happened. Once in a century there's a big pandemic, and 2020 is the year my generation got it. Everyone got it, technically, but economically, my generation has been hit the hardest. We graduated during the recession and then we lost all our jobs and businesses because of a super rare pandemic right as we were getting our feet on the ground and making roots. I luckily still have work, but it's with WSU and the Master Gardener program and not with Luci Creative, who I really wanted. During the beginning of the pandemic, before I started work at WSU, I was really enjoying my free time and making the most out of it (I can't say the same for a lot of other people). I w...

Literally, 15 years. I think the last time I went, I was 17 or 18. A few years ago I decided that I wanted to give skiing another shot. So two or three weeks ago I asked Mark, Maggie, Lea, and Andy if I could join them skiing at Cascade (they said yes, of course). Andy had never done it before, which was great for me because then I could relearn with him and stick to the easy courses with no pressure. Mark also skied, but Lea and Maggie snowboarded. At one point Lea fell backwards down the hill and hit her head pretty badly. She stopped after that, and then Maggie gave up after she fell down on her butt one too many times. To my credit, I never fell once, which is truly amazing. I always hated falling, so much so that if I did it, sometimes I wouldn't want to ski anymore. So I'm really glad I somehow managed to avoid that this time (seriously, how did that happen?).

Right as I sat down to write this, exhaustion decided to set in. It has been a long, emotionally full day. I had my Luci interview today down in Chicago. The day started off bad because the alarm on my crappy Pixel phone decided not to go off. Again. It always decides it wants to do this on the most important day. Last time, it was when Manfred was picking me and Emily up for the airport. The timing literally could not be worse. And the damn thing even says "Upcoming alarm 7:15am" AFTER the fact, then will suddenly say "Missed alarm." Stupid piece of... Anyway. The interview went really well. I'd say really well (Brandy was like my personal cheerleader and the Executive Creative Director loved me), except for the end kind of messed that up. I asked them to let me know if I was not their candidate of choice and that I couldn't move my start date for my other job, but I could push back my move date; and they all went completely silent. It became really awkw...

I feel like I'm going to jinx myself by saying anything, but after finding some daily doodles in my brown notebook yesterday, I feel like I should go back to daily journal summaries. I'm missing so much by not blogging, but they take so much time or I just don't think to do it. So here's a short summary of today and yesterday: I found an opportunity at Luci for Project Manager. Despite having accepted a job in Tacoma, WA, I didn't want to pass it up. So I reached out to AJ, the CEO, and she set me up with their Operations Manager, whom I met at the mixer and really liked. She informally spoke with me this morning and really liked me and my experience and set up an in-person interview for me next Tuesday. Nothing is promised or in the bag, but I'm proud of myself for doing my first ever network-based job inquiry and getting somewhere with it. I'm also proud of having gotten past the second step, even if I don't get past the third. I mean, I really reall...