3
Nov
Posted in Adventures with YUP | 1 Comment »
© Judd Marcello
Today’s dispatch from across the pond comes at a good time. I myself am a little bit down in the dumps about finding a job. Daylight savings time is over, marking the final door-slam on our already closed summer of frivolity, and while I have freelance work, it’s not enough to occupy me. I want more. Challenges! Excitement! Coworkers! I need more. Free Halloween candy in the kitchen! A water bubblah! Money!
And I’m irritated and a bit numb from not hearing back from the one million peoples and places to whom I’ve sent my resume, of feeling like every effort I go to has so little effect, why bother…
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27
Oct
Posted in News | 2 Comments »
photo credit: Bob Jagendorf
Happy day, y’all! It’s official: Things aren’t as bad as they were!
(Okay, I’m reading a book about Nazi Germany, and before that, I read a book about Mississippi during the early years of the civil rights movement—both fantastic, by the way. I just have to say, survivors of this recession, we’ve never known it as bad as it could be, thank God. But that’s neither here nor there.)
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