How are Things With You, Anyway?

My friend Fi asked me "how are things with you" a couple of days ago.

Fi, whose Indian name is Pollyanna Lay Down Gently, would not accept

a one-word answer, and she's the type of friend who knows when you are

bullshitting her, so I was forced to really think about how things are, and

how I feel about them and how to put it into words.  Which I did:

It is strange not working. I'm in limbo - ready to move but nowhere 

to move to. I have an "exam" for a job in California and I spoke to a 

lady there who said over 200 people are testing for this job. I feel 

like I should wear an old, wrinkled trench coat and carry a rolled up 

newspaper want ads section in one pocket and a paperbag with a 

pint of rye whiskey in the other and walk around dragging my feet in 

black and white on my way to the soup kitchen. In other words, it's

starting to seem like the Depression . . . . . 

 . . . . Life seems strange now.  Not bad, just strange.  Have you ever 

been to the movies in the old days where the movie is on two reels and 
one reel flickers to the end and the low budget theater only has one 
projector so the light come on for just a minute or so while they change 
reels - not enough time to buy popcorn or anything useful. And you sit 
there mentally suspended in the last frame of the movie, waiting, and then 
the beginning of the second tape sputters and starts and the movie continues. 
I feel like I am at that part - the break in reels - and it is taking a really long 
time for the projectionist to get his shit together.

But I'm ok with that. As long as I get to see the end of the movie and it has 

a relatively happy ending.

Image is from a fascinating article
from the Griffiths Cue-Dot Observatory.

Site Mash for Jobs

I know I blogged about Site mash before.  It was how I found my
itsy-bitsy Shasta trailer.

Now that I am unemployed, I am using it daily for job hunting.
I look for investigator positions, but you can type in nurse, baker
tinker, tailor . . . you get my drift.  Put in whatever your job interest is,
and site mash will look through all the craigslist jobs posted in the us
and pull out the ones with oh, say, candlestick maker, for you.

Very handy.

ANd while using it . . you might want to send your good wishes out
into the universe for all those who are unemployed.  Every little bit
helps!