No news is no news
It's getting harder to stay on point here.
I know there are a handful of people (or fewer) who've been disappointed with the dearth of posts in recent days. Maybe if I had a desk job and knew what it was like to be deprived of a formerly reliable source of internet-based procrastination, I'd be more dilligent.
I've been lax mostly because there hasn't really been anything to report. I'm still in a post-F* & W* state of mind. That interview (which will have taken place one week ago as of tomorrow) had a strange, inexplicable effect on me. It's hard to define. The best I can do is to say that it was both a major event and a non-event at the same time.
It was a major event in that it came out of nowhere, and was kind of a big deal because F* & W* is a national magazine. Also, it was the first time I'd heard anything from a job I'd applied to in almost a month. And, of course, my parents were really heavily invested in this one, for whatever reason. They were basically no-shows on the last two, but suddenly I've got an interview in Manhattan for a publication they recognize and I've got to wear a suit and study up on wine and get a royal send-off from the both of them at 6 in the morning.
But for all the hype, it ended up amounting to almost nothing. I'm still struggling to figure out how it went; I really feel like I'm missing something. It was just so short and perfunctory. I wasn't exaggerating when I clocked it at 20 minutes. Either the interview was just a formality, and I've automatically made it to the second round of interviews (doubtful), or (more likely) it was obvious that I wasn't cut out for the job within the first minute and they just thought it would be polite to chat me up for a little while longer.
I won't be upset when I don't get it. I just wish I wasn't so baffled by the whole thing.
So that's that.
Since all this job crap is so boring, I've been fighting off the urge to delve into other topics that have been on my mind:
-TV: Cool shows I've been watching (I've been experiencing something of an MTV renaissance thanks to the awesomely good shows "Laguna Beach" and "Next"), or shows that have been disappointments lately ("Desperate Housewives" and "Survivor" seem to have forgotten how to be good, and even "Meet the Press" has been a major let-down lately in spite of the fact that this has been about the busiest few months of national news I can remember).
-Politics: Yes, Democrats won both governors races that were held yesterday, but did anyone notice Texas's new, over-whelmingly approved state constitutional amendment? Or that the Supreme Court issued two unanimous rulings yesterday?
-Law school: Should I go? If so, where can get in?
-Blackjack: When should you stand on 16? Or split 2's, 3's and 6's?
I guess there's nothing stopping me from opining on all of those things. I was trying to avoid turning into one of these dweeby know-it-all blogger types. I only really feel justified in writing about subjects in which I have demonstrable expertise. There's no question that joblessness is my forte these days. Who gives a rat's ass what I think about culture or politics?
The answer, of course, is another question: Who gives a rat's ass what I think about my own unemployment?
I know there are a handful of people (or fewer) who've been disappointed with the dearth of posts in recent days. Maybe if I had a desk job and knew what it was like to be deprived of a formerly reliable source of internet-based procrastination, I'd be more dilligent.
I've been lax mostly because there hasn't really been anything to report. I'm still in a post-F* & W* state of mind. That interview (which will have taken place one week ago as of tomorrow) had a strange, inexplicable effect on me. It's hard to define. The best I can do is to say that it was both a major event and a non-event at the same time.
It was a major event in that it came out of nowhere, and was kind of a big deal because F* & W* is a national magazine. Also, it was the first time I'd heard anything from a job I'd applied to in almost a month. And, of course, my parents were really heavily invested in this one, for whatever reason. They were basically no-shows on the last two, but suddenly I've got an interview in Manhattan for a publication they recognize and I've got to wear a suit and study up on wine and get a royal send-off from the both of them at 6 in the morning.
But for all the hype, it ended up amounting to almost nothing. I'm still struggling to figure out how it went; I really feel like I'm missing something. It was just so short and perfunctory. I wasn't exaggerating when I clocked it at 20 minutes. Either the interview was just a formality, and I've automatically made it to the second round of interviews (doubtful), or (more likely) it was obvious that I wasn't cut out for the job within the first minute and they just thought it would be polite to chat me up for a little while longer.
I won't be upset when I don't get it. I just wish I wasn't so baffled by the whole thing.
So that's that.
Since all this job crap is so boring, I've been fighting off the urge to delve into other topics that have been on my mind:
-TV: Cool shows I've been watching (I've been experiencing something of an MTV renaissance thanks to the awesomely good shows "Laguna Beach" and "Next"), or shows that have been disappointments lately ("Desperate Housewives" and "Survivor" seem to have forgotten how to be good, and even "Meet the Press" has been a major let-down lately in spite of the fact that this has been about the busiest few months of national news I can remember).
-Politics: Yes, Democrats won both governors races that were held yesterday, but did anyone notice Texas's new, over-whelmingly approved state constitutional amendment? Or that the Supreme Court issued two unanimous rulings yesterday?
-Law school: Should I go? If so, where can get in?
-Blackjack: When should you stand on 16? Or split 2's, 3's and 6's?
I guess there's nothing stopping me from opining on all of those things. I was trying to avoid turning into one of these dweeby know-it-all blogger types. I only really feel justified in writing about subjects in which I have demonstrable expertise. There's no question that joblessness is my forte these days. Who gives a rat's ass what I think about culture or politics?
The answer, of course, is another question: Who gives a rat's ass what I think about my own unemployment?
posted by temporarily unemployed at 19:45
2 Comments:
in answer to this question i offer a resounding "moi." the thrills of desk jobbing leave me more than able to basically watch your blog like it's tv. once the gre is over and i have my life back i can go into much more detail about this, if you wish:)
~C
whatever you say, you give me great reading material that makes me forget for two minutes that my life is just as uninteresting.
also, "next" is an awesome show.
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