Archive for January 2006

 


Monday, January 30, 2006

// posted by Jessica in Board Games, Parties @ 5:56:00 pm - No Comments »
It’s the end of the month already.

The board game party on Saturday went well, although we only played two games, both of which lasted forever! We’ll be having another one towards the end of February, since we didn’t even get to play Alibi. I forgot to bring my camera to the party so I had to borrow someone else’s camera; therefore, it might be a few days before pictures are up. :)

The Strokes are coming to Nashville on March 6!! Yay!!

Still job hunting…

Edit: Pictures are now up!

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

// posted by Jessica in Goals, Rants, Video Games @ 6:33:00 pm - 2 Comments »
Our Xbox 360 came in yesterday.

We have no games. None we really want right now. But my gamer tag is SweetVenus if you want to add me. :)

So, before I graduated, the question I was most commonly asked was, “What are you going to do when you get out?” and my answer was always, “I’m not sure.” Now that I have graduated, I keep getting “Have you found a job yet?” and the answer is, “No.” I still don’t know what I want to do. Let me rephrase: I know what I want to do, but I don’t have the education or experience to do anything remotely related to that right now. And I don’t know how to get my foot in the door to start doing that. I’m pretty sure the only way to get my foot in is to get a job doing something that I will despise. Which I don’t want to do. So, no, I haven’t found a job yet. In the meantime, I’m looking for jobs maybe with web design, but I really don’t have enough experience with that either (even though I’ve been making them for 11 years, just not getting paid for it, so it apparently doesn’t count since I don’t have a portfolio).

I would like to move out of Knoxville. There are basically two places I would consider going: Nashville or San Francisco. There are many pros and cons to both places. Nashville, obviously, is close to my family, cost of living isn’t too bad, and I won’t have to move too far from my friends here. San Francisco, however, is like my dream. As long as I can remember, I’ve wanted to live out there. Plus computer jobs are fairly easy to come by, so it would be a good place to get my foot in. However, it means probably an apartment half the size of my current one for twice as much money and not being close to anyone I know. I’ve applied for jobs in both places and I haven’t heard from anything yet, so I suppose it really doesn’t matter. I guess I’ll just end up going wherever I can finally get a job since I’m apparently not qualified for anything I want to do despite having a BS in computer science.

Monday, January 9, 2006

// posted by Jessica in Video Games @ 10:07:00 pm - No Comments »
Okay, I got Animal Crossing as well.

I was just biding my time with Mario Kart. But, unfortunately, I know NO ONE with Animal Crossing, and you can’t just meet up with random people. So someone go get it so I’ll actually have a town to visit. My friend code is 2577-6115-5396.

Tuesday, January 3, 2006

// posted by Jessica in Holidays, Parties, Video Games @ 10:10:00 pm - 4 Comments »
Happy 2006!

I hope everyone had a great time bringing in yet another year. You can probably tell I did, from the super silly pictures. And don’t ask why my hair is pink now.

So, board game party on the 28th. New games I have are Alibi and Loaded Questions. They are both pretty fun. I wanted to wait till the party to play them, but we are impatient.

I’ve got Mario Kart DS. My friend code is 146091 502849 if anyone wants to add me. I’m having quite a difficult time getting carts unlocked though, so I’m still a little slow. Be gentle.