Boredom

The most annoying thing about my recent unemployment is the constant monotony. Get up, eat cereal. Troll craigslist, send out a million resumes for jobs that will never write me back. Poke at the internet, smoke, repeat.
My partner, Ben (who was unemployed for about a month recently), understands this. He told me to get up and go out. Even if it's just to walk to the store and buy cigarettes or to take the dog out. Originally, I told him to eff off. Because that's how I roll. I'm always right. But, actually, it turns out that HE'S always right. And it kills me.
So, today I took my dog, Lucy, to the park. And it was lovely. And I came back to the Craigslist grind refreshed by her ridiculous antics, happy to have mud on my shoes. And now she is happy and exhausted. And I am calmer and less fatalistic about the fact that I don't have a job. It will get better.


The dog in question.

Ch-ch-ch-changes

I thought that this would be an appropriate time to begin writing in this blog. Considering everything is changing at a fairly rapid rate.
As of Friday, I have joined the ranks of the unemployed. I never thought that within the first six months of graduating from college, I would be applying for unemployment. So much for the power of the college degree.
Nothing has turned out in the way I thought it would. But perhaps this is a good thing. I've started to think that maybe my goals that I've set for myself are not the goals that I really want. Allowing myself a moment to contemplate, when before I felt swept up in a tide of "first job" and pigeonholed by my resume.
So now we can begin.