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botherd ([personal profile] botherd) wrote2009-07-24 09:03 pm

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So, on Wednesday I graduated! I now officially have a BA (Hons) in English with Study in North America, but I've yet to put it to good use and find a job. (And now I'm back living with my parents, KILL ME NOW.) The graduation ceremony was awesome, because FLOELLA BENJAMIN. I just wish I'd been as brave as some people and asked for a hug.

Random gripe: my degree certificate doesn't have my middle name on it. I like my middle name! I like having the same first two initials as Exeter's most famous graduate! So I'm stupidly disappointed about that little detail. :(

Anyway, life: I had been feeling like I was totally done with university, but now I'm thinking about working at some pointless job for a year and then doing an MA in creative writing. IDK. I just don't want to end up doing some job I'm not that interested in and having it become my career, you know?

... I feel like if I want to be serious about becoming a published writer I should write something that, um, isn't fanfiction, and yet that's all I want to write. I'm working on an 80s AU that I think has a lot of potential to be good. But it's probably going to be longer than my little bang fic, just because more characters have significant parts (so far I have Katie, Effy, Naomi, Cook, Freddie, and maybe JJ; SPOT THE GLARING OMISSION), and that means it's going to take me aaages to write it. Sigh. I need something that's like a pensieve, except instead of turning thoughts into swirly white stuff it turns them into words.

[identity profile] lazy-daze.livejournal.com 2009-07-24 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
YAAAAAAAAAY GRADUATION!!!! I have no career advice - see me, stuck in dead end job! Okay, I far from hate it, but I have no passion for it and no other options. IT PAYS THE BILLS, though! But yeah - the longer you go without making serious decisions, such decisions get kinda made for you and just happen. Being grown up is AWFUL SCARY :(

[identity profile] botherd.livejournal.com 2009-07-25 10:51 am (UTC)(link)
Unanswerable comment! Yeah, I think 'it pays the bills and I don't hate it' is kind of what I'm shooting for. [/AMBITION]