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holliOkay, so. I got a job at Ann Taylor Loft at Tyson's. This is a good thing: I need the money, as the expense of the Disney World trip is catching up with me, and I am super broke; also, I only have another month or so before Maret's school year ends and I need something to replace it with.
However. Oh my god, retail is *exhausting*. I worked three hours Saturday and *nine* on Sunday, and I was about ready to *drop* after that. I know this is going to make me sound soft and sheltered and upper-middle-class, but I have never had a retail job before, and I had NO IDEA. I've had jobs that had long hours, and jobs that required me to be on my feet for most of the day, and jobs that entailed a lot of carrying heavy crap, but never all at once, and the combination is *sort of terrifying*. There's no way I'd be able to do this more than two or three days a week. No WAY.
On the bright side, 40% discount, and they *do* have cute clothes, and I appear to actually be pretty good with people. But I am so so glad that I have another part-time summer job lined up, one that I get to do sitting down, because otherwise, AUGH.
Also, as always, Maret parents need babysitters, and that will hopefully continue to be my source of cash. This actually works pretty well: babysitting covers my day-to-day expenses, ensuring that I have cash on hand for small purchases, and that way I only need my debit card for the big stuff. And apparently there are always a couple of families who don't realize they're going to need a nanny for the summer until the last minute, and my boss at Maret has promised to pass my name on to anyone she knows is looking.
Oh! Also. I read His Majesty's Dragon a couple of weeks ago, and just picked up Throne of Jade the other day. Apparently I had a previously-unrealized burning need for Napoleonic military strategy and dragons. This is not a bad thing *at all*. Both books are lovely-- wonderful prose, tons of characters I adore (although I have to admit, I got the names confused pretty often on my first read-through, but I think I have everyone straight now), and Temeraire, who, oh. Seeing as how he is a large, deadly, extremely dignified creature, should I not want to pinch his cheeks? Is that wrong? Because I do. Oh, honey, Laurence will explain where human babies come from eventually! Or you can just ask one of the other dragons, that'll probably be easier.
That exchange in Throne of Jade made me laugh SO HARD, but then, I *am* twelve. Also, I hope we see Jane Roland more in Black Powder War, because she is *kind of awesome* and I am very fond. This book has one of the best workarounds ever to the problem of writing people who have the prejudices and attitudes of their time, but are still sympathetic, I have to say. Laurence *is* a man of his time, but he's surrounded by people who, out of necessity and the demands of life with dragons, aren't quite. It works nicely.
However. Oh my god, retail is *exhausting*. I worked three hours Saturday and *nine* on Sunday, and I was about ready to *drop* after that. I know this is going to make me sound soft and sheltered and upper-middle-class, but I have never had a retail job before, and I had NO IDEA. I've had jobs that had long hours, and jobs that required me to be on my feet for most of the day, and jobs that entailed a lot of carrying heavy crap, but never all at once, and the combination is *sort of terrifying*. There's no way I'd be able to do this more than two or three days a week. No WAY.
On the bright side, 40% discount, and they *do* have cute clothes, and I appear to actually be pretty good with people. But I am so so glad that I have another part-time summer job lined up, one that I get to do sitting down, because otherwise, AUGH.
Also, as always, Maret parents need babysitters, and that will hopefully continue to be my source of cash. This actually works pretty well: babysitting covers my day-to-day expenses, ensuring that I have cash on hand for small purchases, and that way I only need my debit card for the big stuff. And apparently there are always a couple of families who don't realize they're going to need a nanny for the summer until the last minute, and my boss at Maret has promised to pass my name on to anyone she knows is looking.
Oh! Also. I read His Majesty's Dragon a couple of weeks ago, and just picked up Throne of Jade the other day. Apparently I had a previously-unrealized burning need for Napoleonic military strategy and dragons. This is not a bad thing *at all*. Both books are lovely-- wonderful prose, tons of characters I adore (although I have to admit, I got the names confused pretty often on my first read-through, but I think I have everyone straight now), and Temeraire, who, oh. Seeing as how he is a large, deadly, extremely dignified creature, should I not want to pinch his cheeks? Is that wrong? Because I do. Oh, honey, Laurence will explain where human babies come from eventually! Or you can just ask one of the other dragons, that'll probably be easier.
That exchange in Throne of Jade made me laugh SO HARD, but then, I *am* twelve. Also, I hope we see Jane Roland more in Black Powder War, because she is *kind of awesome* and I am very fond. This book has one of the best workarounds ever to the problem of writing people who have the prejudices and attitudes of their time, but are still sympathetic, I have to say. Laurence *is* a man of his time, but he's surrounded by people who, out of necessity and the demands of life with dragons, aren't quite. It works nicely.
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