Your Unemployed Daughter

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Today has been one of those difficult-to-focus types of days. I have a million little things to do and follow up on, and so I flit from item to item on my list and don’t accomplish much of anything, except thinking about everything a little, and that’s a kind of progress, no?

While washing a portion of my dishes, I noted that this is, in fact, one of the strange benefits of being unemployed/working from home.

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Today I continue my experimental work week by venturing into the copy division of a food magazine—one that houses actual water-bubbler-encased water, gratis coffee and tea, and a variety of kinda-sorta fancy lotions in the bathroom.

Ah, the signs of profit! Indeed, there’s even a coconut cake here, free for the nibbling, which i hear is worth the calories (though I’m still mortified enough by Nacho Cheesegate 09 to abstain).

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YUD woke up on the wrong side of the bed yesterday. (Whatever that really means, and however it was derived, the fact is, she was cranking like a bizotch. And she took it out on poor Henry P. Torrence, Coordinator, among others. Not that he didn’t deserve it. But I’ll get to that later.)

At any rate, the crankiness is more likely due to lack of sleep, and “woman troubles,” and heat (more people kill each other in hot weather, does that surprise anyone?), and, not least, the fact that she is going into an office today, for the next 2 weeks—something that causes anxiety as well as pleasure over upcoming monies to be paid and boozy deliciousness and/or shoes to be bought.

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