The theme of this update is: work!

I forgot to mention something odd and a little frightening that happened yesterday. You know how when you look up into the sun, you get a sparkling little blur of blindness on your eyes where you saw it? During my shift at the Old Job I spontaneously developed one of those, a large, twitching crescent-shaped one to the left of my center of vision. Over the span of a few minutes it grew larger and larger until it occupied the entire left side of my sight. Anything I saw in that area was colorless and indistinct; looking at a word, I couldn't see any of its letters immediately to the left of the one I was staring at. After a few minutes of this I got an excrutiating headache and it grew extremely difficult to focus my eyes on anything at all. I told my friends what was going on and they said it sounded as though I hadn't eaten enough, even though I'd had some cereal before work. Luckily there were only ten minutes or so until the end of the shift, when I carefully drove home, had a sandwich, popped some Advil and passed out for a few hours. I've never had anything like that happen before and it hasn't happened again since, so I'm assuming it was because I needed food.

Old Job is shutting down for two weeks while they move to a new building closer to campus. I'm helping tomorrow, Thursday and Monday with the move. I'm glad I won't have to worry about that job for a while, but today I discovered that I absolutely won't be able to keep both my jobs once class starts again. If I stay with Old Job, the hours are more convenient but the pay is worse. Whenever I get promoted I'll get a little raise and be able to do homework during the shifts, but there's no real guarantee that that'll happen within the next few months. If I leave now, though, I'll be giving up my chance at the promotion. On the other hand, the New Job has terrible hours but the pay is great, I get a good workout and it's truly gratifying work. So, stick with Old Faithful, or risk it all for a shot at something new? I have a couple weeks to decide, but it's not going to be easy. I know I'll be content either way, albeit for different reasons, but whichever I choose, I'm always going to wonder about the other.

While Harry Potter fanart is near the very bottom of the list of stuff I pay attention to online, I randomly stumbled onto this site earlier today: artdungeon.net. The artist is illustrating the newest book chapter by chapter and her art is gorgeous enough that I think anyone could enjoy it. She has miscellaneous art section here. It's almost more fun than reading the books.