On Friday Open Thread
@meetapossum This is my life! Kinda! Except I'm only a year out of college (the 22nd is the one-year anniversary and I kind of want to get drunk and cry that night, but it's a Tuesday--not that I have work the next morning!) and have one barely-there job. I've worked about 6 temporary, less-than-part-time jobs since graduating and sent a million careful cover letters into a void. I had an interview last week for a part-time position that was accepting 18-year-olds, and despite a follow-up email and two assurances that they'd reply to all applicants: nada. The apply->no response->less motivation->apply less->feel worse cycle is very familiar to me.
I'm lucky in that my parents are financially secure and mostly great, but I'd feel much luckier if I had a full-time job in my field and lived in an apartment. Media coverage on recent graduates is actually making me crazy--there are so many stories on how coddled and lazy our generation is, but meanwhile I'm desperate to work and be independent. I finally decided to teach English in France even though it has nothing to do with my field because (among nicer reasons) I figured French bullshit will have the excuse of being a foreign culture.
Not helpful/encouraging, I know! But comiserating? And I can recommend music if you say what you like!
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On Friday Open Thread
@The Lady of Shalott Tom and Lorenzo's Mad Style posts are one of my favorite things on the internet. Half of why I watch the show is so I can understand the posts.
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On Scenes From My Recent Cruise
@Setec Astrology My only real memory of the cruise my family took when I was 10 was my dad not allowing me to stay up for the midnight buffet because I was too young, and then him eating all of the little pastries my mom and sister snuck back for me. I still hold a grudge and sometimes dream of taking a cruise just so I can stuff my face with petit-fours.
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On Not Chasing Amy
@Reginal T. Squirge "READ THEM OR I BURN THE HOUSE DOWN! AND LAUGH! LAUGH AT EVERY SINGLE COMMENT!"
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On Not Chasing Amy
@jinsher It reminds me of a blog I read, Notes from the Intern--the woman who writes the blog wanted to break up with her boyfriend, but he lived with her and she didn't think he had anywhere to go (they weren't living in their home country and she paid the rent). Once their relationship had dwindled to nothing and she started seeing someone else, she went home early one day to break up with him--only to find him and her best friend (who also lived there) having sex. Apparently all of their friends/neighbors knew but didn't want to get involved, and her best friend told the guy not to say anything because she wanted to keep living there rent-free.
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On Aideah and Sophayden
@Lila Fowler I've always wanted to name my hypothetical daughter Ronia.
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On Who Wouldn't Want to Touch Her Feet?
@I'm Right on Top of that, Rose I have to go to the podiatrist's sometimes because I have horribly, horribly flat feet. I used to feel really awkward about them looking at/touching my feet, which were probably a bit sweaty and definitely not foot-model-quality. But then I went to a podiatrist in a university practice that catered to the poor and elderly and overheard/saw bits of other visits as I walked down the hall--people with weird skin conditions, elderly diabetics who didn't take care of their feet, infections... I felt a lot better after that.
ETA: Bahh that was meant to be for @jen325
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On Beauty Q&A: ID Photos, Gaudy Shoes, and Looking 10 Years Younger
LW4: Do you have any friends who are halfway decent photographers and own an all right camera and basic photo-editing software? I took my passport photo at home and had it printed at CVS. I got to take a million photos until I looked kind of normal and got to do some basic touch-ups to my skin, which was pretty awful back then, and it was still cheaper than paying CVS's usurious passport photos rate. I did the same thing for a friend senior year of college--our house had a porch with white walls and lots of sun, so it was really easy. Plus it's way easier to look relaxed/happy when you have a friend taking your photo and not some underpaid CVS employee.
ETA: Unrelated, but AAHhhh Lily Cole! She's one of my favorites!
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On Elderly Dogs and Babies: A Primer
@The Kendragon Aahhh you have a shepherd-collie mix?! My old dog was shepherd/smooth collie and she was the BEST. She liked kids to the extent she liked most humans--she'd stand calmly and let them pat her, and then quickly become bored and wander off.