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The other day I indulged in a Chai cupcake at Baked and Wired (as well as some excellent Chamomile-Lavender tea). I was wearing my old Alterra zip-up sweatshirt, and a girl sitting opposite me leaned forward and asked me how I knew about them. Turns out we're both from Milwaukee, and we both have Alterra coffee sent or carried out to us as often as we can. There is truly no finer coffee roast. In related deliciousness, one of Cake Wrecks' featured cakes today depicts the fight scene from Amok Time! Check it out - just scroll down a bit. There's a pretty awesome Serenity in there, too.

My grade from Catholic University was finally posted, so now I feel like I can relax a bit. (For interested parties, our class project was annotating Thomas Carlyle's History of the French Revolution, which Charles Dickens used as a source while writing A Tale of Two Cities. You can find our work here.) All the credits are in place, so I should be having my degrees posted to my record this coming Friday. The next step is to find employment. I'm volunteering back at the Folger for the month of January so that I won't just be sitting around, but I need to find something that will give me an income and health insurance. I have a few courses of action I can take. Give up on library/archives jobs and just look for absolutely anything. Stick it out for a library/archives job and move home if I don't find anything in a few months; continue to look from a place where I'm not paying rent. Or I could just pick a city, settle in, and float on odd jobs until I find a library gig there - at this point, I'd be looking at Boston. Or I can wait for the Silver Fern Job Search visa quota to reset in April, say fuck it all, and try to find a job in New Zealand instead of the US. The job market might be less than half the size it is here, but it would such a *scenic* place to bask in my unemployment, no?

Some university needs to have a sudden urge to start archiving fanfiction on a massive scale. I know I could write a truly wondrous cover letter for such a position. If only, if only...

So far there are over 200 applicants for a position I applied to at the University of Missouri. That's pretty standard these days. So I'm one of several hundred. Chances? I'm getting a second Masters, and I have a second language. That's good, right? *bites nails*

So far the only real contact I've had with anyone is Bridgewater. They sent an e-mail to me letting me know that they'd made some changes to the position, and to please let them know if I was still interested in it. Of course, I don't know if they just contacted everyone who applied to the original posting, or only people they're actually interested in.

I shouldn't be worrying about it just yet, in any case. Today means one month 'til comps. I've been writing up summarizing essays of all my different sections - only have four left. It comes along apace. Just please let my questions be witchcraft focused. I know my witchcraft. Just don't ask about anything political, and we're good.

Need to get cracking on my second research paper. I think I might have found some good early modern German poems and plays to look at, know I just need to persuade the Folger to let me back in through the door so I can clap eyes on them. And speaking of the Folger, they have a new exhibition on Henry VIII opening in ten days that I am very, very excited for. It's going to be epic. They're also putting on the play Henry VIII go along with; thinking of getting tickets for when Mom comes out to visit.

Also need to finish my scholarship application for Rare Book School. I want to take a paleography class. It would be both interesting and, y'know, useful.