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[orikes]

Not that I have all that many folks in my friends list, but what the heck. It's a neat meme.

Ask me five questions and I will answer them to the best of my ability.

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[porphyrin.livejournal.com]

Just one question:

Catch me up on the last five years, in brief?! I feel like I missed a lot that went on in your life, and I hate it.

[orikes13.livejournal.com]

I tend to be a pretty positive person, but when I start reciting what's happened over the last five years, I start to feel like I'm being a wangsty cry baby. While it's not been an easy few years, it's not like it's the end of the world.

Let's see. In 2000, my parents got a divorce which caused some ripples which are still being felt today. At the end of 2000 and beginning of 2001 (right around the last time I got to visit you, I think), I left my job as an Admin Asst. at a local college to take a job doing graphic design type work for Kinko's.

Also right around that time, I moved into the apartment I'm in now. It's not in a great neighborhood, but it's large and the owners are my friend's parents, so they've been amazingly kind with the financial troubles that have been besetting me since the beginning of 2002.

See, at the end of 2001 and beginning of 2002, I got laid off from Kinko's. Well, everyone that worked where I did got laid off. After 9/11, the company panicked and restructured massively. I wasn't too worried. I didn't think it would be that hard to find another job. After all, I had a year's worth of experience beneath me in the field I wanted to be in. I should have been worried.

It hasn't really been a pleasant few years on the job front. I've spent almost half the time between 2002 and now unemployed, and the jobs I've had have all been low paying temp jobs. On the plus side, -most- of them have been graphic design related, which has helped pad up the resume some more. Currently, I'm in a decently paying temp job doing technical support for digital camera owners. This should last until the end of June at the very least.

The other tough financial thing is that I no longer have a car. I had to take it off the road and get rid of it a couple of years back. So, that makes it even harder to find a job.

After I faded off of Aether and Nightscape, I started playing EQ. I pretty much became addicted to that and played pretty hardcore. I got into a hardcore raiding guild with some really good people, became one of the top rogues on the server, and helped do a lot of server firsts. It was a great deal of fun and some of the people were great, but it is a time sucker, even worse than MU*ing at times. I gave that up last April when finances became too tight to pay for it. I miss it sometimes, but I'm still in contact with some of the people I've met through there. I picked up MU*ing again after that, and am still doing that today.

One of the other side benefits of EQ was that I got into doing art again. I've had some fun expanding my photoshop abilities and getting to the point where I actually like some of the character artwork I've done. I'm slow, and I'm not great, but I enjoy it. All of my LJ icons were drawn by me.

Hmmm. What else. Two cats. No boyfriend. Still. Absolutely adore and dote on my friends' two daughters, ages four and almost two. Started up with a gaming group last year that I'm quite happy with, even if we don't always game when we get together. Since the divorce, my relationship with my dad has gotten stronger.

Uhm. You said 'in brief', didn't you? Imagine what would have happened if you'd actually asked four more questions!