Your Unemployed Daughter

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Suddenly it’s 5 pm and I’m eating cold pasta out of an old (cleaned, I swear) plastic container that once housed sorbet. This is what happens when one doesn’t consume a drop of alcohol from Monday through Thursday, and then goes on a drinking spree with former coworkers to celebrate Thursday night. There’s something to be said for having a “base level” of booze in one’s system at all times, despite what my personal trainer might tell you.

At any rate, headache has largely subsided at this point, and pasta has been restorative, but I am certainly glad that today did not involve having to enter an office building. I am not sure I would have had the strength.

Speaking of jobs, you know how Craigslist is a bastion of possibility, real or imagined, bad or good? Well, a former writing group cohort of mine, Nira Hyman, penned a short story on the very subject, and a filmmaker friend of hers, John Lee, had it made into a short film.

I think this will make you feel better about your job search.

Stay strong, stay alive, and keep drinking. Happy Friday.