Your Unemployed Daughter

photo credit: VancityAllie

Today’s post will be short because, let’s face it, you’re probably not reading, so ensconced are you in your multitudinous preparations for a magnificent feast. And I’ve got a train to catch: I’m off to the first New England Thanksgiving (minus M&D) in my family’s capricious and roving history, I do believe.

As always, the freelance life and the holiday life create a strange “vacation vector” in which work has still to be done, and yet, you don’t want to do it because all of the fully employed people have days off. Or, the converse: You have and haven’t had work in ages, so a holiday is just another day to you.

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