Why being ill is incompatible with my life

Dear friends, I have somehow managed to acquire 5 jobs. Prior to Thursday, I only had two. Three. But, in a piece of exciting news, remember how this whole blog started out with fun stories about crazy submissions and nutty intern-moments? Well, the place I interned for has offered me a job as a first reader! (see here if you forgot how the process works) It pays more dollars per hour than my sandwich/smoothie/coffee making job on campus but it is probably fewer hours a week, so I am keeping my menial labor. Especially since, in menial-labor-land, i was just promoted to student manager. Also, I like making smoothies, okay?? It's not that hard to keep me entertained.

So that's three jobs (sandwich/smoothie, coffee shop, first reader), and I am a writing associate for an English class this semester (one I took and was terrible at, so this should be interesting), and then my internship emailed me again and was like oh yeah and do you also want to write up reader reports for one of our magazines?

And I was like yes. Yes I do.

This is actually so exciting, folks, even though I do not think I want to be in publishing forever, I have some sort of nifty "in" with this small part of the publishing world because they liiiiiiked me! So be liked at your internships, I guess is what I'm saying, and you, too, can overwhelm yourself with too many jobs.



So basically, I know that I'm going to get swamped and overwhelmed, but the best thing for me is to keep as busy as I want to keep and work on organizing my time ridiculously well. I don't accept my own disease as a legitimate excuse not to do the things I am doing. Mostly this is because I can't tell when I'm actually too tired/sick/sore or when I am just unmotivated. And when I am unmotivated, is it legit BECAUSE I'm tired/sick/sore? I dunno. You would think I'd know since I've had this crazy disease for eleven years but no, I don't. Oh well!

Hokay that's all for now. I am not good at updating this and existing at the same time, but shall continue to do my best!