girlofprey

Nowadays, for some reason, by the time I am finished playing games and checking various websites/Tumblr, I am too exhausted to do anything else, and it's usually about half past 11 at night.

I have been meaning to post, essentially listing things I love, and not just things that are annoying me in Coronation Street at the moment. The basic list is:

• Art Nouveau jewellery.


• Art Deco buildings.


• Harpies.


• Beautiful, colourful art.


• Bits, though not all, of Two Best Friends Play.

However the main thing on my mind at the moment is that I'm really not looking forward to this week. I've got an interview, out of the blue. The application that I possibly talked about the other week, which massively stressed me out and which I was supposed to be doing the Tuesday I eventually decided I was too exhausted to go out for, and which my Employment Coach ended up sending in based on a personal statement I had written for a previous job - that application form got me an interview. However, the last interview I got I had a couple of weeks to prepare for. This one's on Friday. At 9.30am. Plus the fact that I have a few extra appointments I don't normally have this week - I don't have counselling, because my counseller's on leave for a week, but I still have my jewellery course and Confidence Course, and I also have a dentist appointment that I've already rearranged once on Thursday, and I just got a letter reminding me that my current sicknote runs out on March 23rd, so I really need a doctor's appointment at some point this week to get a new one. If there's one available. And if I want to do any interview prep, which I pretty much do, I'm probably going to need to make an appointment to see my Employment Coach at some point this week as well.

So basically I have a week where my routine is going to be different than usual, and fuller than usual, which will probably already have me a bit tired and unsettled, and then I have an interview at the end of it. Plus the fact that I'll have to wash my hair on Thursday night and go to bed earlier than usual, to get up way earlier than I normally do to get there for the interview. So...yeah. Plus the fact that, since I had a really hard time getting into gear to do the application form, I never really properly read through the person specification, or actually read the personal statement my Employment Coach sent in for me. And aside from that, I'd probably still need to do some research on the company to really be properly prepared for it.

So. Yeah. I don't really know whether I just need to prepare myself for a pretty gruelling week, or start accepting right now that I'm probably not going to be properly prepared or in the right mindset for this interview, and to look on it as more of a practise thing. And start thinking about maybe ringing up and cancelling if I do start finding the whole thing too stressful. I don't know. It would be kind of a shame though, because it's local, it's the kind of work I'm looking for and the kind I have experience in, and it's the kind of hours I was looking for. But yeah. It's just the fact that I only have a few days to prepare for it that's kind of a problem. Sigh.

Also, I'm going to Eastercon now, so I'm having to start thinking about preparing for that as well. I'm looking forward to it and glad I'm going, but at the moment it's sort of another thing to suddenly remember I haven't done stuff for and start feeling bad about it. Happily though, I can do a lot of that stuff now, and am planning to do some of it tonight. And I'm going to call my Employment Coach tomorrow to hopefully at least try to get some stuff sorted, and talk to her about it. So yeah. It'll probably be fine. Ish.

At least it's my birthday next week, I guess. I still have no idea what to ask for. I was thinking actually of a refurbished/secondhand Playstation 2, if they were easy to get hold of, or maybe a Netbook. But I'm more and more leaning towards just asking for money, to spend once Black March is over. Aww yeah.

Also I have been learning that when it comes to Oz characters, trying to put them into any AU pretty much instantly makes that AU about 50% more violent. I was looking at some of the Harlequin book descriptions for one of those Harlequin fic challenges the other week, and naturally did some imaginative merging. Even Regency AUs almost immediately felt like they needed criminal underworlds and violent shootouts to really work. Even my traditional Labyrinth AU attempts get slightly darker when you apply Oz characters. Dude.