Ask for help? What? I don\u2019t need help. I help other people. It\u2019s what I do, right? I\u2019m an endless font of support and wisdom. Or, you know, funny stories. Or whiskey. Or mead. Whatever the occasion calls for. I\u2019m your monster. Er \u2026 man. Goat. Baphomet. Or something.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not just bad at asking for help: I\u2019m not even very good at taking it when it\u2019s offered.<\/p>\n
Part of my problem right now, of course, is that there\u2019s not really anything going on that people can help me with. I\u2019m a student. No one can really help me with the work. In terms of my personal history, I\u2019ve actually done a pretty good job of asking for help, lately.<\/p>\n
When it came to performing the Stele of Jeu, I turned to Jack Faust<\/a> for advice on sources and those potential problems which somehow never seem to get written down. Without his generous councelling, those experiments would almost certainly not be going as well as they are.<\/p>\n After wresting with the Registrar for a couple weeks getting my transfer status sorted out a little better, I spent this afternoon talking with my academic advisor, working on my three-year plan. I really want to spend time abroad, but as a transfer student I don\u2019t have quite as much time for that sort of thing, and the London program doesn\u2019t fit as nicely into my academic requirements as I might like. Also, it\u2019s never too soon to start planning for my Senior Capstone.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve been employing time-management techniques I learned from Aradia during out time together, and that\u2019s been helping me get caught up.. I\u2019ve been begging my local friends for assistance in the form of patience while I climb out of the hole I\u2019ve dug for myself, falling behind in my course work. The folks at the local pagan store have been helping me out by providing me a venue to make a little cash on the side, teaching mead-making workshops\u2014even when I only break even, like this weekend, I at least get a concrete reminder that I am a) competent at a lot of things; and, b) already a decent teacher.<\/p>\n Sannafrid\u2014and all my friends, but her in particular\u2014has been doing her best to keep me sane, but that\u2019s a Herculean task at the best of times. I am not a fun person to be around when I\u2019m stressed out. Just ask anyone who knew me in St.Louis. Especially the ones who don\u2019t talk to me anymore.<\/p>\n So we come full circle. I\u2019m not very good at asking for help, and I\u2019m pretty damn graceless when it comes to taking it as offered. I\u2019ve been doing better, lately, but unfortunately my problems are largely things that no one can help me with.<\/p>\n Except the gods. But in the highly ritualized headspace created by my ceremonial studies, I\u2019m not sure how to ask them for help. I\u2019m still working on phrasing sigils and enchantments. Any of you folks out there have suggestions for time-management magic? Charming the shit out of obnoxious professors? Battering the bureaucracy of the Registrar\u2019s office into submission? Oh, hey. There\u2019s me being good: asking for help some more.<\/p>\n And fuck it: I\u2019m a witch, I could just try asking nicely; start with some devotional images as a bribe. (And, fuck, I should probably try out some of my own damn self-care rituals while I\u2019m at it.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ask for help? What? I don\u2019t need help. I help other people. It\u2019s what I do, right? I\u2019m an endless font of support and wisdom. 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