...kinda. I don't expect to have a huge presence on dA like I did for a few months, but I should be checking in more often than I have been. I have almost 300 deviations and 170 messages to sort through! Gah!

So my job hunt has been... a trial. Lots of nothing, a few nibbles that turned into more nothing. I was contacted by a recruiter from South Korea to come teach English there. Very exciting, but also a big decision.

Fortunately, the decision was made for me: Yesterday, I was offered a part-time internship with McGraw-Hill, working on some of their Biology textbooks for next year. It's almost exactly what I want to do for a career (though I'd prefer to work in editing fiction than textbooks... but textbooks are a close second for me). So hooray! When I heard that, I decided I just had to find another part-time job to fill my hours and keep me making money.

Well, scratch that, too. Turns out another department at McGraw-Hill wants to offer me a part-time internship, too. So I'll be working full-time for McG-H, working on their Biology, Anatomy, and Physiology books. Pretty swank! Now I just have to turn these internships into something more permanent eventually.

In the meanwhile, though, rock on!

My friends and family had a rash of hospitalizations last week, but they all seemed okay: my old roommate had a pulmonary embolism, but thankfully he's okay and getting better. My grandfather had a gallstone obstructing a bile duct, but after a surgery he is apparently doing much better. And my aunt had to have a section of cancerous or infected (I'm not clear which) tissue removed after her colonoscopy. She's pretty young and healthy, and would get better, too.

That is, if there hadn't been a complication. It may be a bit too early to be screaming about whose fault it is, but it seems that she now has an infection in her intestines, and they're giving her 24-48 hours to live.

It's pretty terrible. It's the first time since I was about 3 or 4 that someone in my immediate family has died. And now I need to decide whether I have the money/time to fly to pay my respects before my new job starts.

Hope everyone out there in TV Land is happy and healthy.