Your Unemployed Daughter

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Believe it or not, YUD is working for two weeks straight outside of the confines of her own home. This is unprecedented! Kinda like the old days, except with bigger muscles and less money to show for it.

Today I’m in dreary east midtown, where the rains beat the windows spanning the 15th floor freelancer pen quite mercilessly. Of all the days to stay home, this would be a good one, but here I am. Working girl’s work never done, etc. etc. And, as my cab driver explained to me today (hey, I was running late), when the economy is bad, you have to work when you can. And also, when it rains it can really ruin your hairdo.

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photo credit: Peter E. Lee

January 3, 2010. AKA, Day of Great Domesticity. All around the Internets it seems people are cooking and baking and huddling in their tiny and abnormally chilly apartments because it’s 20 degrees and snowing here in New York City.

I, for one, am cooking a lentil stew, with liberal use of red wine vinegar. I have watered the plants and checked to make sure they’re not freezing on my window ledges; I have dressed in ski socks, a flannel shirt, and am trying out the American Apparel shiny leggings. I think I might even like them.

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photo credit: The Library of Congress

Your Unemployed Daughter finds herself in the awkward state of being, suddenly, rather employed.

Trust me, however, this will change nothing. Well, it will only change things for the better, because now you’re going to get to read me all over the GD place, and don’t we love that? (If you don’t love that, refrain from comment, please.)

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