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AdiCroft
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Name: Megan
Location: California, United States
Birthday: 7/13/1983
Gender: Female
Interests: Mischief, music, movies, travel, laughing, theology, dreaming, outdoor stuff, books, beach activity, dancing, running, prayer, food, speeding, meeting new people, video games, general adventure, and small furry aminals.
Expertise: "'You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,' said Aslan. 'And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor in earth.'"--Prince Caspian
Occupation: Legal Secretary
Message: message meEmail: email me
AIM:  AdiCroft
Yahoo:  AdiSanders
Member Since:
1/28/2004
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| Heaven help me, I'm leaving Xanga. http://geekybliss.blogspot.com/ Yup. | | |
| I thought I'd take a minute to write a post out regarding my recent adventures in career advancement. (My video camera is being borrowed, so I do apologize to those of you who have been diligently checking my youtube site.) A couple months ago one of the lawyers in my office cornered me and told me I should seriously consider becoming a paralegal. This kind of blew me away, because (1)I had no idea my office thought so highly of me, (2) I had never considered going into law as a career move, and (3) it was really early in the morning. I talked with a few other folks about it, and everyone was very encouraging. I guess it's kind of the only way I can "move up" in my firm, unless I want to be a secretary forever. (Which frankly, I would potentially be okay with.) However, I decided it sounded fun, and UCSB has an excellent extention program which caters to folks who work, so all the classes are at night. Last night, I took my first class! The entire program takes about 3 years on average to complete, but you go at your own pace. (So we'll see what happens.) It felt good to be back in a classroom again - there is something about being a student that I find invigorating, though I certaily don't want to do the "school thing" again. I'm pretty excited about it all though - a paralegal is basically a person who gets to skip law school but still get trained in all the big areas of law, then goes and does the bitch work for a lawyer. They need to be supervised in nearly everything, they can't give legal advise, but they do a pile of work to help free lawyers up from all the tedious stuff. So really, I'm kind of half way there already, but now I'm going to learn all the crazy words and definitions for words that I hear all the time. Yay, education! | | |
| When I'm bored at work and don't want to look at a computer screen (but am too scared to boldly dive into free reading) I draw. Huzzah for mechanical pencil! 
The darker bits didn't scan well so I had to go back in and tinker with the scanned image, but I like the result just fine. :) In other news, one of the lawyers here put a bug in my ear that I would make a good paralegal, so I think I'm going to get my certification. It will take a couple years, but I think it will work well - we'll see how I like the intro course, which starts through UCSB Extention on March 30. Of all the "career moves" I have thought about making since college, this was never on the list. I'm not really all that interested in law and never have been, but it seems to suit me well enough and I sure do love my office. We'll see what comes of it! | | |
| So, all of a random sudden, I realized that none of my close friends (that I know of?) do video blogging, and I kind of wish some of them did. (Am I talking about YOU? Maaaaybe.) I have been following a couple podcasts and vlogs this year with intermittent devotion, and a couple times I thought to myself, "I wish I actually knew these people" OR "I wish a couple of my friends did stuff like this so I could follow it."
So THEN I wondered, "Would I be any good at this?" What would be my motive behind starting a little vlog of my own? Would it just be for the sake of entertainment? Would there be a couple topics I focused on which I am interested in real life? (Things that come to mind are gaming, nutrition, music/movies and spiritual/religious/philosophical thoughts.)
But what exactly is the point of a vlog? Well, they can be very entertaining for one thing - and it would be a big creative leap of faith for me. Gah - the thought of being on camera is intimidating ... especially the thought that people I've never met might start watching... weird!! Hmm ... which just made me realize I don't even have a camera for video - ew so that means I'd have to buy equipment to start this. Commitment!!
So, if you read this, tell me your thoughts. I'd appreciate it. :)
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| Totally addicted to one of the best games I've played in a while. This game has actually made me wonder if I could ever get a gig writing scripts for video games ... I think an RPG lends to a certain kind of story that would be really fun to play with. However, I think I'd need to be a published author before any company would even consider such a thing. Something to motivate me further indeed. | | |
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