28
Sep
Posted in TGMTU | 2 Comments »
photo credit: Zeusandhera
Today I’m feeling a little bit Monday. Chalk it up to being away all weekend and, yes, maybe drinking a bit too much and working out too little, but I woke up sleepy, cranky, and generally out of sorts. Even though, really, life is not so bad.
Still, when some overweight middle-aged goon tried to hand me one of his “Obama as Hitler” pamphlets, I nearly kicked it out of his fleshy paw. I managed to control myself, however, offered him a murderous glare, and continued the trek to my sometime office, where I got an ice coffee, dialed in for a conference call, and crankily listened for my 5 minutes of the status report.
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Tags: crankensituation, crankiness, cranky crankerson, derek ivie, etymology, obama hitler paraphernalia, puerto rico, sewer crab, sometime office, status report, things getting me through unemployment, unemployment vacation
9
Sep
Posted in From the Trenches | No Comments »
photo credit: pixelcatcher
This week I feel not so much unemployed as underemployed. Yes, I’m going into an office a few days a week and doing some things that will make me some money, and it’s all very la la la/easy breezy beautiful, but it’s not a challenge so to speak. And while I, as always, have no complaints about having work, it’s a weird adjustment to go from super busy and productive to feeling kind of—well—bored.
Which is to say, skills that I believe to be fairly evident and even bursting at the human seams to be taken advantage of are falling ill from lack of use and perhaps even on the way to becoming vestigal organs that may eventually fall off completely.
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Tags: cranky crankerson, cyan, easy breezy beautiful, four months of unemployment, getting a life, labor day, new 90210, seasonal affective disorder, september blahs, sun lamp, the freelancer, underemployed, vestigal organs
