Strange dreams
Jan. 3rd, 2018 04:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ricelilyAh it's been a while sine my last entry. I got caught up in school mostly and I kinda forgot about this place. But a considerable amount of things have happened since my last entry.
Some family drama just sprang up out of nowhere and caused quite a bit of discord in the few weeks that led up to Thanksgiving. We, as in the family, tried to carry on as normally as possible. Despite the obvious, awkward elephants in the room at the holidays.
I acquired a new addition to the family; a dog! I He's technically my sister's latest adopted puppers but since there was during the midsts of brewing drama, the little Chihuahua/Pincher? Mix came to live with us. I never had a dog before and it was...quite the learning curve. Luckily, he's very well-behaved, loving, and gentle with his new feathery family too. In fact, he gets bullied a litte by the 8 ounces of terror.
Skating-wise, I've made some significant progress and entered my first skating showcase at my home rink. Nothing really huge, just a Christmas Show that every rink in the world puts on this time of year. It was fun though. During rehersals, I've gotten to know more about some of my fellow rinkmates and acquired a few new friendly faces to talk to. I hope that they feel the same way about it. I think it was a smart decision to take the adult advance classes a second time around and be more comfortable with jumping and other edge focused moves. I still feel weak on my left (which is not unusual.) but I haven't been visiting the rink much during their holiday hours, and for good reason. (It's so fucking crowded and dangerous, the ice turns to snow so fast.)
The showcase went pretty well, ....better at dress rehersal but it was fun. I had a good time. If I'm still around in town, I might do it again or perhaps even attempt competiting O.O!! We'll see how I progress and things progress with school.
Speaking of school, the final semester is finally coming up. This coming Spring would be my last semester at AAU and then into the real world. Before the holidays hit, I quit my job at GameStop and it's been liberating to be there for my family and not stress about working for a terrible boss who undermines your work ethics and angry customers. The only person that was hard to leave was the ASM, he and I became quick buds and he was sympathetic to my complaints about our boss. I carried them through the Black Friday fiasco which wasn't as hectic as I've previously experienced. Anyway, I've had my share of asshole coworkers but I was not willing to work for someone like the last boss. Especially when I'm close to graduating and transitioning into my career route.
Admittedly, it's scary to do something so drastic but there are positions out there. It's just a matter of putting in the grit and time to prep my portfolio to send off to these employers. There was an opporunity that sprang up during Thanksgiving in Burbank for a new show, most likely the position has long been fulfilled at this point. Idk, I'll have to check again. It would be ideal to work my first job in the Capital of Entertainment but I kinda have my heart set for working in Canada. (Which my ASM and fellow GA were very encouraging about choosing Canada).
As the title mentioned about "Strange Dreams" I had a particularly strange dream yesterday morning. I dreamt that I returned to my retail job (not the same store luckily), it felt like I've been gone for a few months and came back to a whole different setup from before. The membership pitches were the same and all but the system to process them was different; unnecessarily roundabout, and still running on a SLOW processing system. In the dream, I was helping a customer. A regular to the store and blessed with unbelievable patience. It felt like all the usual tasks that should've taken seconds to get through was done in hours. I was so frustrated with myself and for my customer. Looking back at it now, I can't help but feel this is some metaphoric representation about my current situation about starting my career.
Seeing all these job opportunities passing by and not being able to present anything is just stifling. I want to do it but I can't. I mostly wanted to talk about this earlier but I got so caught up with updating instead.
Anyway, I think my frustrations are manifesting into over the top representations.I just wanted to stay that much for now. I'll try again later.
Some family drama just sprang up out of nowhere and caused quite a bit of discord in the few weeks that led up to Thanksgiving. We, as in the family, tried to carry on as normally as possible. Despite the obvious, awkward elephants in the room at the holidays.
I acquired a new addition to the family; a dog! I He's technically my sister's latest adopted puppers but since there was during the midsts of brewing drama, the little Chihuahua/Pincher? Mix came to live with us. I never had a dog before and it was...quite the learning curve. Luckily, he's very well-behaved, loving, and gentle with his new feathery family too. In fact, he gets bullied a litte by the 8 ounces of terror.
Skating-wise, I've made some significant progress and entered my first skating showcase at my home rink. Nothing really huge, just a Christmas Show that every rink in the world puts on this time of year. It was fun though. During rehersals, I've gotten to know more about some of my fellow rinkmates and acquired a few new friendly faces to talk to. I hope that they feel the same way about it. I think it was a smart decision to take the adult advance classes a second time around and be more comfortable with jumping and other edge focused moves. I still feel weak on my left (which is not unusual.) but I haven't been visiting the rink much during their holiday hours, and for good reason. (It's so fucking crowded and dangerous, the ice turns to snow so fast.)
The showcase went pretty well, ....better at dress rehersal but it was fun. I had a good time. If I'm still around in town, I might do it again or perhaps even attempt competiting O.O!! We'll see how I progress and things progress with school.
Speaking of school, the final semester is finally coming up. This coming Spring would be my last semester at AAU and then into the real world. Before the holidays hit, I quit my job at GameStop and it's been liberating to be there for my family and not stress about working for a terrible boss who undermines your work ethics and angry customers. The only person that was hard to leave was the ASM, he and I became quick buds and he was sympathetic to my complaints about our boss. I carried them through the Black Friday fiasco which wasn't as hectic as I've previously experienced. Anyway, I've had my share of asshole coworkers but I was not willing to work for someone like the last boss. Especially when I'm close to graduating and transitioning into my career route.
Admittedly, it's scary to do something so drastic but there are positions out there. It's just a matter of putting in the grit and time to prep my portfolio to send off to these employers. There was an opporunity that sprang up during Thanksgiving in Burbank for a new show, most likely the position has long been fulfilled at this point. Idk, I'll have to check again. It would be ideal to work my first job in the Capital of Entertainment but I kinda have my heart set for working in Canada. (Which my ASM and fellow GA were very encouraging about choosing Canada).
As the title mentioned about "Strange Dreams" I had a particularly strange dream yesterday morning. I dreamt that I returned to my retail job (not the same store luckily), it felt like I've been gone for a few months and came back to a whole different setup from before. The membership pitches were the same and all but the system to process them was different; unnecessarily roundabout, and still running on a SLOW processing system. In the dream, I was helping a customer. A regular to the store and blessed with unbelievable patience. It felt like all the usual tasks that should've taken seconds to get through was done in hours. I was so frustrated with myself and for my customer. Looking back at it now, I can't help but feel this is some metaphoric representation about my current situation about starting my career.
Seeing all these job opportunities passing by and not being able to present anything is just stifling. I want to do it but I can't. I mostly wanted to talk about this earlier but I got so caught up with updating instead.
Anyway, I think my frustrations are manifesting into over the top representations.I just wanted to stay that much for now. I'll try again later.
