you know, 24 feels pretty much like 23 did...

[edenfalling]

Failed, wah. But I did get 550 words out of the attempt -- Lockhart does just go on and on and on if you let him into a scene -- and I did a quick clean-up edit of some other stuff, so it wasn't all bad. Stuff may be posted tonight.

I lost an hour on the phone with my parents anyway. It turns out that they're coming up today and we're doing my birthday dinner on my actual birthday. (Shocking, I know.) This is because there may or may not be a bad snowstorm on the east coast Saturday evening, and they're trying to miss it, should it become real and not hypothetical. Anyway, we'll do dinner, they'll find a motel for the night, and then we'll visit tomorrow morning and midday.

And now I must run so as not to be late for work.

(Hah! It feels good to be able to say that again. It's a kind of cruddy job, but it is, nonetheless, a job.)

Comments

[willowgreen.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on your birthday! I recall 24 as a pretty good year, overall.

Are you working at the little smoke shop on State Street? That's the first place I ever bought whole coffee beans!

[alchymie.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday, Liz! Yes, a year makes less of a difference as one's age progresses. (As I know all too well.) Still, another year is always worth having.

We have got to find you a job commensurate with your talents...

[alliancesjr.livejournal.com]

Once again, happy birthday! I was considering making a "When I was your age" remark, but I remembered that you're older than I am.

[crazy-toffee.livejournal.com]

Well, Happy Bday anyway! To me, 23 feels pretty much the same as 22... but if anything exciting happens at 24, be sure to tell me before I get there! XD *throws confetti at you*

[valles-uf.livejournal.com]

Tanjoubi omedetou!

I'd call the job and the folks' as being a good omen - hope I'm proved right!

Ja, -n
(*doesn't believe in omens*)

[thisistony.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

[hamletti.livejournal.com]

...or should I say "many happy returns of the day..."

I hope you have a wonderful time with your parents. And as far as I can tell, all of the birthdays feel the same after about 21. 30 was interesting, though. I remember thinking people were OLD when they were 30! Ah, well...

Congrats on the movement forward and I'm looking forward to re-reading "Secrets" when the next chapter comes out.

-Hamletti

[iponly.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday to you! *sings with glee*

[redwolfoz.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the birthday and the writing.

[edenfalling]

Yes I am! I sold coffee beans to two people today, actually. I also managed to spill a bunch of beans onto the floor when I forgot to open the hopper of the grinder before pouring them in. *hides face* I was kind of spazzing toward the end of my shift.

[edenfalling]

I keep looking and sending out resumes, but the job market in Ithaca is a little intense at times. *sigh*

[edenfalling]

*giggles* Even on the internet people think I'm younger than I really am!

(Swear to god, nobody believes me when I say I'm 23... well, 24 now. And everyone thinks my little sister is older than I am. It drove me nuts when I was younger, but now I find it amusing, and I suspect it will just get funnier the older we both get.)

[edenfalling]

So far, all that I've done is develop a new talent for spilling coffee beans on the floor of the shop, but hopefully that was just a temporary abberation...

[edenfalling]

Oh, I don't believe in omens either.

*plays several games of clock solitaire until the cards for the coming year turn up favorable*

[edenfalling]

Thanks!

Re: Happy Birthday!

[edenfalling]

Heck, I remember thinking people were old when they were twenty! Ah, youth. How fleeting it is, and how underappreciated...

You know, there are people my age who are published authors, and here I am working in a magazine shop. *sigh*

[edenfalling]

Thanks! *harmonizes*

[edenfalling]

Thank you!

[alchymie.livejournal.com]

Reading this and other peoples' remarks... on the Internet, nobody really knows how old you are unless you tell them. (Although sometimes, given interests and language, they can guess.)

In your case, Liz... in two years, you'll be exactly half my age.

((feels positively decrepit))

[lukita.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday ♥

[edenfalling]

*pats you consolingly on the shoulder* Age is relative. (Well, barring the creaky knees and so on. Those are a bit hard to argue with. *sigh*)

[edenfalling]

Thanks!

[chibirisuchan.livejournal.com]

(sweatdrop) Belated Happy Birthday! And don't sweat it too much about not having a permanent career-type job at 24 -- IIRC when I was 24 I was titled "part-time secretary" and what that actually translated to was "graphic artist, test proofreader, and technical support for about 60 near-retirement-age liberal arts and social sciences professors who say things like 'Microsoft is doing that thing again, come fix it' and could mean anything from Word to PowerPoint to IE to a printing problem by that." (That was one of the five part-time jobs I was working simultaneously hoping one of them would turn permanent. We'll not get into the blatantly illegal payment practices of the small local paper I was slave labor at an average of $2.06 an hour a "stringer" for.)

It wasn't 'til I was about 27 that I got my first full-time writing job, because everybody wants something on your resume before they'll hire you, which means everybody wants somebody ELSE to be on your resume first, apparently...

[edenfalling]

I would probably have an easier time finding jobs if I'd graduated college, but the way I was going, that would not have happened, nor would attempting to remain as a full-time student have been good for my mental health. *sigh*

See, I'm just as qualified as most liberal arts majors (if not more so), but I don't have a little piece of paper to 'prove' it. And my past jobs are a real mish-mash: food service at an assisted living home, part-time personal care assistant, homeschool teacher, secretary, and low-level database manager. Apparently this does not scream "Employ this woman!" to most people.