Serpents and one-armed men
Feb. 28th, 2002 12:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousmeWell, Incarnate's over until next week.
A good session today, I think. Better than most. I got a lot more screen time than I usually do, which was nice. Not that I don't get enough, but sometimes I like a bit of extra time in the sun, so to speak.
Shannon got to meet Tabib, was possessed on New Year's, and even got to speak to Lotus. That was nice. At least contact was kept between Shannon and Lotus despite the really bad beginning. If I can find a way to help Lotus be rid of the Ouroborans (if that's who they are), then it'll be a really good step for Shannon in terms of her Destiny as well as resolving everything that Richard left unfinished. That's a major preoccupation for her, since Voltaire got most of his work done before he died, and what little there was left to do she can easily write down with his help and publish as a "critical" work of Voltaire's thinking. It could work.
I really do want to bring Lotus back into Shannon's life as much as possible, even though their two "faiths" are pretty much irreconcilable. I don't think Shannon will ever want to force Lotus to change her ways even if she thinks they're horrendously sinful. She just wants Lotus to be happy, and if that means staying with her cult in Appalachia, so be it.
ConJuration is in two days, and I think a lot of people are nervous about it this year. I suppose it's understandable. This is the first time since the Con became profitable that it's not being run by Julia, and I daresay we're not used to running a Con without her. Still, things are going pretty darned smoothly. I still have quite a bit of work to do on my game, and Victor and I have to go to the bank tomorrow, but otherwise everything seems to be under control.
I hope that I might be able to avoid work on Fridays if and when I get a job at Bell. They're open 7 days a week, and I'll get the last pick of schedules, but I'm hoping to manage my schedule in such a way that it'll leave some days open when I can do other stuff like roleplay and paintball and work out. The bad part about this job is that it's in Dorval, which is a minimum of one hour's commute away, and they open at 7am. Don't know how I'll manage that, but I guess I'll have to find a way. Hopefully I'll be able to work a regular 9-5 shift, or maybe I can manage to cram a lot of hours into a few days of the week, like 7-9 on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Well, maybe not. They only guarantee 20 hours a week, but apparently there are plenty of opportunities to work up to 37 1/2 hours a week even for beginners like me.
I'm enthused about this. It's about time I got into the regular job market and figured out what the real world is like. If I work a regular week at their salary I should definitely be able to afford a place of my own after a decent amount of time. Training is three to six weeks at $13, then it goes up to $15 when I start for real. I'm not really planning to move out until about the end of April or the beginning of May, so that should allow me to save up a considerable sum of money (for me, anyway) to start out with by then.
Of course, this is all premature poultry counting. I don't know if I'll even get this job. I hope I do, though. It pays pretty well, and I get all sorts of social benefits too. Bell has a very good reputation for that, and it's really not a bad company to work for. I've heard nothing but good things about how they treat their employees.
Must get to bed. Early day tomorrow.
A good session today, I think. Better than most. I got a lot more screen time than I usually do, which was nice. Not that I don't get enough, but sometimes I like a bit of extra time in the sun, so to speak.
Shannon got to meet Tabib, was possessed on New Year's, and even got to speak to Lotus. That was nice. At least contact was kept between Shannon and Lotus despite the really bad beginning. If I can find a way to help Lotus be rid of the Ouroborans (if that's who they are), then it'll be a really good step for Shannon in terms of her Destiny as well as resolving everything that Richard left unfinished. That's a major preoccupation for her, since Voltaire got most of his work done before he died, and what little there was left to do she can easily write down with his help and publish as a "critical" work of Voltaire's thinking. It could work.
I really do want to bring Lotus back into Shannon's life as much as possible, even though their two "faiths" are pretty much irreconcilable. I don't think Shannon will ever want to force Lotus to change her ways even if she thinks they're horrendously sinful. She just wants Lotus to be happy, and if that means staying with her cult in Appalachia, so be it.
ConJuration is in two days, and I think a lot of people are nervous about it this year. I suppose it's understandable. This is the first time since the Con became profitable that it's not being run by Julia, and I daresay we're not used to running a Con without her. Still, things are going pretty darned smoothly. I still have quite a bit of work to do on my game, and Victor and I have to go to the bank tomorrow, but otherwise everything seems to be under control.
I hope that I might be able to avoid work on Fridays if and when I get a job at Bell. They're open 7 days a week, and I'll get the last pick of schedules, but I'm hoping to manage my schedule in such a way that it'll leave some days open when I can do other stuff like roleplay and paintball and work out. The bad part about this job is that it's in Dorval, which is a minimum of one hour's commute away, and they open at 7am. Don't know how I'll manage that, but I guess I'll have to find a way. Hopefully I'll be able to work a regular 9-5 shift, or maybe I can manage to cram a lot of hours into a few days of the week, like 7-9 on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Well, maybe not. They only guarantee 20 hours a week, but apparently there are plenty of opportunities to work up to 37 1/2 hours a week even for beginners like me.
I'm enthused about this. It's about time I got into the regular job market and figured out what the real world is like. If I work a regular week at their salary I should definitely be able to afford a place of my own after a decent amount of time. Training is three to six weeks at $13, then it goes up to $15 when I start for real. I'm not really planning to move out until about the end of April or the beginning of May, so that should allow me to save up a considerable sum of money (for me, anyway) to start out with by then.
Of course, this is all premature poultry counting. I don't know if I'll even get this job. I hope I do, though. It pays pretty well, and I get all sorts of social benefits too. Bell has a very good reputation for that, and it's really not a bad company to work for. I've heard nothing but good things about how they treat their employees.
Must get to bed. Early day tomorrow.
