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[shadesong]

So much of my heart and mind is in Boston. And my body is here. Feel like they're attached by a rubber band that could *SNAP* at any moment.

That would hurt.

I need to be there.

So many factors at work. So many than ever before.

I need to be there now. I need to go home.

Universe: This is what I want.

I want Adam to get a call from one of the universities he's applied to, desperate to hire him. They will interview him when we're there in July, and decide that they need him for the beginning of the school year. We will move in August. (docorion has already said he'll take a month off work to help.)

The move will go smoothly. Adam will love his new job, to which he will carpool with his new gaming buddies. Elayna will hit it off with zeyr's son and love her new school, which will prove to have a rockin' band as well as the great math & science program we already know about.

Finally not having to haul my ass all over town for four hours at the start of every day, I will start getting enough rest. After a few weeks, my body will catch up to itself, will recover to the point of being manageable, liveable. My new neurologist will be flexible with my treatment, and I will have the ability to be flexible with it. I will be able to work *with* my body, not *against* it.

I will get a Xeric grant and publish Shayara in trade paperback form. It will sell like hotcakes. Hotcakes, I tell you. I will then also get Places You Haunt, Ondine, Walking on Water, and Maggie's story published, though not in comic form because that isn't how they live in my head. And other stories. I have other stories. I will always have other stories.

Adam will get a series of books published, too - funny looks at horror media. He will have a huge following, like David Hasselhoff in Germany.

morenasangre will be a famous writer too, oh yes, for her beautiful urban fantasy. *nod*

docorion is lucky - he's already doing what he loves. But he wants to just do day shifts. So universe, let's put him just in Boston and just on day shifts.

Elayna will be a genius teacher rock star scientist astronaut mommy writer, just like she wants. And a punk-rock flautist. And she will always be healthy.

Everyone I love should be healthy, Universe. If I'm dreaming, I'm dreaming big. Fix dark_blade's arthritis. Fix sibylla's probably-lupus. Fix deyaniera. Fix the whole gimp squad. Take away their pain and their brainfuckery and bodyfuckery - give them that much more room to Do Great Things.

This is what I want, Universe. Manifest this.

Comments

[voldsom]

*hugs you and hopes very much that the universe listens*

[eyewrist.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

[phantomdancer.livejournal.com]

As someone recently hired by a University, in my case the university of California, I can say that their hiring process is very very slow. There's all kinds of laws and regulations regarding university hiring and it takes a long time to jump through all the hoops. It went 8 weeks from interview to job offer. Here's to hoping it won't take that long in your case...

[zarhooie.livejournal.com]

My mom and dad got engaged in early may. By August, he was working full-time as a registar at a small college. It can happen.... not terribly often, but it happens.

Dear universe: Wake the fuck up and listen to 'Song. Thanks.

[ardaniel]

Agreed, especially in state-funded university and college systems...

however, if you can weasel your ass in as a temp-- a lot of universities in-house their temp agencies-- and bust your hump really hard, they'll want to keep you that much more, and make it happen that much faster. ;)

[phantomdancer.livejournal.com]

I have not found that to be true in general at my place of business. I have seen lots of temps get treated like disposable human beings since starting at the U. People who get fired for being sick, for having the nerve to take a day off once in a while. Haven't seen a lot of conversion from temps to perm employees, but I suppose it happens...

[ardaniel]

I worked at Carnegie Mellon for a year and got hired straight out of the temp service. Again, I think there's a gulf between the UC system (I have a friend who's hanging in as a full-timer at the UCI library, with all attendant horror stories) and private university systems.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

I have a friend in a private Boston university who went from temp to perm in a month flat.

[jmspencer.livejournal.com]

I hope the Universe listens, 'Song...

What exactly is Adam looking to do at schools? I may have a few viable connections at some schools to help. (and if he's looking for new gaming buddies up here, he should get in touch w/ me anyway)...

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Academic IT. He has a bunch of specific things he does, the only two of which that currently stick in my brain are FirstClass and Blackboard... e-mail him? yendi AT livejournal.com.

Thank you!

You Go Girl

[gythiawulfie.livejournal.com]

More power to ya!

[iroshi.livejournal.com]

Amen, sister. So let it be.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

(So disconcerting to unexpectedly see Ryan's face! :) )

[kradical.livejournal.com]

It will sell like hotcakes. Hotcakes, I tell you.

I never got this phraseology. I mean, do hotcakes really sell all that great????

*ducks and runs very fast...*

[m0usegrrl.livejournal.com]

if we could also add that xanadumalion's situation stabilizes so she's no longer stressed about just trying to survive and can actually DRAW THE FUCKING COMIC, i'd be ever so grateful...

::adds her will to the collective request to the Universe::

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Amen! *hug*

[miintikwa.livejournal.com]

*gets a lump in her throat*

*hugs you fiercely*

Yes.

[azhure.livejournal.com]

Universe? I second all of that!!

Listen to 'song, for she deserves goodness and happiness and health.

And can I join the gimp squad? :)

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

Man. I wish every one of these wishes could come true. Partially for selfish reasons, granted. :) But seriously. This is not much for the Universe to dole out, all things considered. It should.

[mud-puppy.livejournal.com]

*smile* This made me a little teary. I like that you ask for what you want of the Universe. And I hope that it all comes to pass. We all want happiness and health and love. And it makes me sad that there are so many people who never get there and grateful for wha I have. *hug*

[pharminatrix.livejournal.com]

Wish some illustration jobs at me. And also, upward mobility at work, could ya?

Also, we'll only be three hours apart. And now that Wombat and I cohabitate, you'll have fewer stops.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

*wishes*

*sends hugs*