I want to cry!!! I have to complete one more quarter for graduation and I need to be working full-time like yesterday. The schedule they gave me was changed and the set-up is hindering my full-time needs. So I think, “I’m a graduating senior, they’ll work with me…” So I’m trying to research other people that have been in this position and help out the new adviser that hasn’t been her too long. He flat out tells me that he doesn’t care what they did in the past, that even if I file an appeal it might not work out, that he doesn’t care what the previous adviser says cause all that matters in what happens now. Since the school is accredited now things like independent studies might not be an option. He was upset too so that made me feel more like crap, because all I wanted to know is who was going to be teaching the class to begin with. He said that I have to talk to the teacher and if the teacher doesn’t want to do an independent study then basically I’m screwed.
I’ve been a good student all this time. I’ve worked hard and stayed on the Dean’s list just about every quarter. I can’t believe that people that slack more at this school have more consideration for assistance then I do. It’s upsetting that the advisor wants to be so hands off and that he’s getting upset with me when I just need a little reassurance. The words, “We’ll do all we can to help you graduate”, isn’t really part of this guys vocabulary.
Yeah he’s excited and why shouldn’t he be? Bryan just got offered a good job with a good company LOCALLY. All this is good news. We were getting worried for a moment there. NO LA and NO Phoenix. WOOT!!!!
I know, I can never make money being a blogger I suck at keeping up with this. So here is the skinny of the last few months. Bryan got the axe at his job because of butt-holes that fired his boss and then anyone loyal to him. That was in May and in case you forgot I handed in my resignation in March. So both of us jobless have been applying everywhere and anywhere and still after three months nothing has come of it. Bryan has got infinitely more interviews than me and I’m feeling like the market for my skills here is just not hiring at the moment. And as I’ve heard of lately a lot of firms are cutting there work force almost in half. So now we are at a point where we are supported by the state with food stamps, Bryan has filed for unemployment, which has yet to kick in, and the possibility of renting out home rather than letting it go into foreclosure is a soon to be reality. Where would we go you ask? Where would our two dogs and cat live you ask? Well lately two jobs in particular are calling Bryan back more and more and the possibility of employment is growing exponentially. Unfortunately with the employment comes the need to move, not just to another city, but to another state. Yes sir, these job opportunities are in Phoenix, AZ and Los Angeles, CA.
Is it going to be worth it? Depends… Depends if LA is will to pay a little more that they originally offered and depends if Phoenix makes up there mind to officially give him the job. LA a is willing to fly him out there for the fourth interview, but they want to make sure that they are number one on his list. Phoenix has had eight different head hunter call Bryan for the same exact position. They need him, they just aren’t saying.
And it some what depends on me too. Will my degree do anything in Phoenix, or should I venture with the big boys in LA? I just don’t know…
Was January really the last time I posted? I FAIL! Well so I fail a little less I will give the “What’s up in Janel’s world”… the short, short version…
I submitted my two week notice at the beginning of my Spring break in March and have completed that time and was grateful for the experience, but felt good to be moving on. That’s all I’ll say about that situation.
LoLa, my little lab, cut herself so bad that she just about lost the pad that is located higher from the paw. Almost complete cut-off! Metal lawn trimming is bad for dogs! She required stitches and all. She eventually ate her bandage even with the E-collar and the BiteNot Collar. “Bad dog LoLa!” She even pulled some of the stitches out. Lucky that the stitches stayed on long enough to mend the wound.
I found out my good friend JT is moving to San Antonio. He’s a big SPURS fan so that would be the best place for him.
Bryan is moving on with a business idea called Baldr Logistics that will provide IT services and equipment. I am also investing more time into Red Drum Studio and currently working on a website for a non-profit. I need to get my website going. I know I’ve said that before but I really do need to open that door.
On another note my brother Jeffery just announced to the family that he and his girlfriend are getting married May 8th. Congratulations Jeff, We love you.
A new quarter has already begun for school and I already feel three days behind. Three quarters away from Graduation and my family is already make plans to fly in. I will be going insane I’m sure, getting my portfolio it’s best so I can market myself.
Hope to be typing again; sooner than three months.
Did you have a Server go down? How about a Hard Drive Fail(Without being backed up)? Is you out bound e-mail server down? Lets throw some viruses in there and we have an All Electronic Crap-Out Day! Of Course this didn’t happen in just a day, however, it seemed like one day this week was particularly worst than the rest. That day would be Wednesday. The day I work half a day and then go to school. The day that Quest decides to reorganize there system and knock out our outbound e-mail service. The day my Hard Drive Failed! Now this wouldn’t be a problem if our so called back up system was working and running weekly as it should. But it is NOT! So Hard Drive Failure means returning to square one of last months issue of the magazine and recreate all seven ads that I built in the last two weeks. Which once completed and approved I usually forget what they look like until I see them again in Print. Our Web mail system sucks too. I had to go through my mail via Web to try and recover as much of the ads that Clients had e-mailed me for the Month. Wasn’t to successful.
To my rescue my Knight and shinning armor(AKA my husband) had options for my company to rescue my information from the Hard Drive and have a new one ready, installed, and running by the next day. The company “PLEASE DO WHAT YOU CAN!!!” and he did. I almost cried as the files began transferring from the weak hard drive that had decided to quite to my desk top at home. OH THE JOY! Recovery, Recovery, Recovery!. I believe my bosses exact IM messages to the news of recovery were, “OMG! OMG! OMG!”. So today I sat at a computer with fresh installations with a new Hard Drive that almost Doubled my old ones capacity and isn’t giving me any extra clicking noises. Thank you Bryan for giving me my weekend back. Love you
Yes, there is a new Boubel in this world. Laura was so kind to accommodate the little guy for 9 months. He was acting shady, avoiding her, giving all these excuse why he couldn’t pay rent. So finally Laura had to put her foot down and evict the little guy from his residential womb. It was a rough 8 hours, the little one just didn’t want to face the world. So Brian started to bribe him to come out. There were promises of heat lamps and warm clean clothes. There were options of Noah’s arch bedroom decor or Baby bears. I think they even promised him a car, but when it came down to it the guy was waiting all that time for all his Grandmothers to be together to show him love. Welcome to this world Little Baby Jaden. Your mother and father were more than eager to meet you. I’ll be flying to met in December. Get strong and healthly till then. Love your aunty Janel.
I think that it’s totally cool to search your name and find yourself as the number one result. I found out that I’m number 1-12 on the Google search and that means I need to step up my web site so that it will trace back to Red Drum Studio if Google searches are getting better Red Drum Studio should be number one on the search too. My illustration is even found as number 5 on the Google list. Thats cool. Anyways lots of love to JT my other Googlable friend. 
Well Bryan and I have taken the step towards home ownership. Yes, thats right we are now proud owners of a 1985 house that needs a little love and has a lot of potential. So far it’s needed a lot of love. But it’s nice to get out of the apartment life style. Really nice! So we have to pull some weeds, a least the neighbors are further away. Plus I have more room to be creative with power tools 
. Bryan’s number one joy that he gives for owning his house: Being able to wash his own car. Even thought he’s been so busy that he hasn’t had the opportunity to. However this is only week 2 of living in the house. It hasn’t been helpful with my school though. I’m behind on a lot and have to create quite a bit of work in a short time. Hoping to really put some time in and get things done this week and weekend. I can feel it again it must be about the two week stretch. CATCH UP
It would be funny if the next time I write would be when I Graduate which by the way will be in the fall or 2008. So a little update on Bryan and I. Well we’re moving on the 25th and not to another apartment but to our HOUSE! We’re buying our first home and we got it at a great price. I have successfully been falling behind on my work this term because of all the packing and getting things “situated”. Bryan had to fly out Friday on business so that left be with the packing until Wednesday and then he goes to his first day of class. Thats right my boy is get his BS (bachelors in Science). Which is really great of course he has to do it like two courses at a time. Well I’m tired I’m going back to bed it’s too early. Moving day is coming an I have a lot to do, but sleep is first.
So my mom’s 60th birthday is coming next weekend and we’re not going to go. Sadly the flight is too expensive and the drive too long. Total hours about 18 and it couldn’t be a non-stop trip that would just be to much for us to do in a day. The good thing is we got to spend Mothers day with her while we were all in Dallas for my brothers graduation. I hope to make that trip in December again to meet my new niece or nephew. I can’t wait! Well got a lot of work to do and I hope that I can knock a lot of it out today since this weekend seems to be a full-ish one.
