Despite:
– Third of four coats of paint applied to final section of red trim
– Cleaned bedroom, changed bedding, reorganised boxes that are ‘temporarily’ in the bedroom whilst we have visitors coming (in April…)
– Cleaned the bathroom
– Started work on finding my mum’s birthday prezzie
– Finally understanding why Plex is playing some tracks twice (because it’s playing the new rip and then the old ones…)
I still feel fairly negative about today.
Which is annoying.
So, a week or two ago I noticed a job offer. In a hospital in the place I want to work…in about 6-9 months or so.
Only I’ve never seen any ER jobs offered there when I’ve looked, especially not a 0.6 FTE job. Which is what I work now, and what I’d quite like to do in the US, so my best beloved and I can set up a shop all of our very own. So I felt like this was an I MUST APPLY NOW situation.
So I got to work, looked up what a US resume should look like (having only ever written a CV, and that quite a long time ago since every nursing job has been application based), and put together a resume, and then showed it to my mother-in-law and to my USian friend Kate, and said ‘err, is this what a resume should look like?’ Apparently it more-or-less is – after a few tweaks*. So today I submitted the application. It must be said, for all the fact that my resume seems reasonably impressive to me, in my current circumstances I wouldn’t give me the job… well, not if I wanted someone to start *now*. Not because I’m not qualified, but because it may be noticed that my commute would be a little over-long at the moment (requiring 2 flights, or a several hour drive and a, at best, 12 hour flight, followed by another hour’s drive just to get home). Of course we’re scrabbling to get the house ready to sell, I’m in the process of applying for my US registration… it’s all in process… so if they’re happy to wait a few months before I start, it’s all good.
But hopefully they’ll look at it and go ‘Oh, she looks great, damn, she lives in the UK’ and then when I re-apply with ‘we’re moving on date X’ they’ll be all prepared and be excited to have me. I mean, I’m pretty keen :)
Or perhaps I’ll be the most awesomely skilled person they’ve got applying, in which case, I’d very much like the job please thank you very much. ;)
* […]Resume.doc
[…]Resume 2.doc
[…]Resume V2b.doc
[…]Resume 3.doc
[…]Resume Final.doc**
Yes, I really should set up version control in Word, if I must use that loathesome piece of crap… except, at this moment I’ve just remembered I’ve got the Adobe suite. God damn it.
Also, spent a long time trying to make sure I’d worked with lots of specialties, not specialities, realized and not realised, and got a B.S., not a BSc… and so on. I didn’t even realise a BSc wasn’t called a BSc in the states.
** Why is that I only ever spot really minor typographical issues*** after I’ve produced the PDF version?
*** Oh look, 2 hyphens instead of en-dashes, in just two of the dates. Let’s tweak that and make the PDF again.
See these women? Their names are Irina Shumilova and Alyona Fursova, and last week, they got married in Russia, where being LGBT in public is a criminal offense.
But despite the country’s ban on same-sex marriage, they were able to legally marry because Shumilova is a trans woman whose passport identifies her as male. And even though she identifies as a woman, is on hormone therapy, and lives her life as a woman in every sense, the government still views her as male.
Therefore, despite their best efforts to shut down LGBT equality in every form, Russia had no choice but to register the pair as a married different-sex couple, white dresses and all.
Russian legislator Vitaly Milonov has already called their marriage an “insult to Russian families,” called the two “mad people,” and vowed to have their marriage annulled. But the brides were met with acceptance at the registry office in St. Petersburg, where they were surrounded by loving friends and family. The people who matter most have already spoken.
Best possible way to take the government’s homophobia and transphobia and throw it right back in their face. More power — and a lifetime of happiness — to these incredibly brave women. (via BuzzFeed)
Cinemagraphs / Animated photography – Promenade, 2013
Yo think about it,
Doesn’t it make you question all the times mainstream media reported a death before social media and we all dismissed it because they played it off so nicely?
Jeff Jackson, a young Democratic NC State senator is the only senator in the general assembly today due to the snow.
WOMAN WEARS BLACK BRA WITH BLACK OUTFIT. CONTACT THE PRESS, CALL THE PRESIDENT DO NOT LET THE CHILDREN SEE.
Oh lord, I hope they never come to my work on the (frequent) occasions that I end up wearing a white bra under my navy blue scrubs… it might bring about the end of society.
Before Jaws hit theaters in 1975, great white sharks weren’t the villains we now believe them to be. But when the movie–which was purely fiction–became a blockbuster, it directly caused humans to seek out and kill sharks, causing widespread population drops in shark species across the board. The influence of that piece of fiction (coincidentally also based on a novel) even coined its own name: The Jaws Effect. When Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita was published, it was perceived by the public to be an erotic novel, despite the fact that it told the story of child sexual abuse through the viewpoint of an unreliable narrator. The result? To this day, we refer to sexually precocious teen girls as “Lolitas,” despite the author’s intent. Yes, 50 Shades of Grey is fiction, but fiction isn’t created or consumed in a vacuum. It is influenced by our culture, and influences our culture, and 50 Shades of Grey isn’t an exception. Even though something is “just fiction,” it can still have detrimental effects on society or expose problems that already exist in our perceptions. So when someone says “50 Shades of Grey promotes abuse as romance,” they’re not saying, “50 Shades of Grey is a totally real thing that happened and is a cautionary tale.” They’re saying that this work of fiction is having, or has the potential to create, real world effects.
Jenny Trout, “Get Over It!” How not to respond to critics of 50 Shades of Grey
(via katelouisepowell)
Fiction isn’t created or consumed in a vacuum. It bears repeating.
(via moniquill)
Ask Meme for the “Experienced” Side of Tumblr
I’m faux drunk on migraine meds, so I made up an ask meme for those of us who are >30. But anyone is welcome to play!
Go ahead and send me a number or three…
- How many jobs have you had, and which was your favorite?
- When did you first connect to other people via computers?
- We’re/are you on AOL? Compuserve? LJ? Dreamwidth? A Listserv? Other?
- If you went to college, does your major match your career/current job?
- Have you had a mammogram? Colonoscopy?
- When did you get your first cell phone? What was it like? (Did it have a screen? Could you text? Was it a brick or flip?)
- When did your family first acquire a color TV?
- When did your family acquire a second TV?
- Did you ever own “designer jeans”?
- Have you ever been to a disco?
- How many places (towns, states, countries) have you lived in?
- Have any of you contemporary friends died? (I.e., people more or less you age.)
- Are you parents still living?
- Do you have any gray hairs?
- Did you or your family own a Betamax?
- How did you spend New Year’s Eve 1999/2000?
- What’s the oldest article of clothing you still wear?
- Do you eat your vegetables?
- Are the privileges of adulthood worth the responsibilities?
- Do you feel like an adult?
- Is youth wasted on the young?
Heh…a meme/asks thing that is….scarily one I have answers for. Hrm.
