what the world needs now is more bookplates.

So. There may or may not be a interesting development, but I'll let you guys know more about it after Saturday. I have seized the fish, so to speak.
On the job front, I'm rewriting my resume so it makes me sound less like a total failure and a prime candidate for cubicle jockeying (isn't that so sad? An Office job would seem so heaven sent right now, from the front lines of Retail.) and also looking at my city's webpage to see what they have available. I also bought What Color is Your Parachute 2008, but I've yet to read it.

I did, however on my last week - read Terry Pratchett's newest Discworld book, Making Money, and he never fails to surprise me. I've really become fond of the Patrician. He's just so...wiggily.

Also, an angry stereotypical Conservative Blowhard woman came in on my very last day and demanded to know why we didn't carry Laura Ingrams (or whatever the hell her name is)'s book and had all these liberal books out and not enough conservative books out and mark her words, she was going to call this in and really, some people have way too much time on their hands being angry and paranoid.

I want to buy these bookplates but I have to save money, so I won't, but....sheep! With pom-poms! It's very difficult! And the rest of the site appeals to my soft fuzzy, winnie the pooh loving side as well. Oh, finances.

American TV season is well and fully under way - I watched the premiere of heroes (I liked), Private Practice (Oh, Kate Walsh? Why? Your fabulousness deserves so much more!), Dirty Sexy Money (I cannot possibly be the only person who thinks Juliet and Jeremy Darling are like...totally Flowers in the Attic, right? SPEAKING OF WHICH, NEW V.C. ANDREWS NOVEL tie in to that series!) and tonight....UGLY BETTY.

MARC! AMANDA! NEVER LEAVE ME.

paper work should not be this terrifying

I still need to do a lot more research and maybe even attend a career fair, but I've looked around and these are the programs I'm looking into turning applications for:

JAPAN
the JET Program
cons: really, rigorous screening/application process - I'm a little worried that my age might work against me, plus, I don't know if I can get the two references

AEON

KOREA
EPIK
Seems to be on par with JET

People Recruit


TAIWAN
Hess

and I'm basically wading through all teachabroad.com listings. I'm really scared, which is probably a sign that I need to do this, but I just worry that I'm not smart enough or qualified enough (or worse, young enough) to fit some of the requirements. Plus, I keep on hearing how Asian based language schools tend to hire Caucasian applicants on the assumption that their fluency is superior to a non Caucasian, but .....it's not an overwhelming percentage, just enough to be a little....whaaaat? about.