Posts Tagged ‘unemployment’
If there’s one thing that unemployment is really good for, it’s productivity. (I am, of course, ignoring the bad things it causes — like stress, the shutting down of one’s brain, money woes, an urge to drink heavily, and so on.) Since my lay-off from my previous employer nearly two months ago, I have spent [...]
So there’s something about being unemployed that’s good. Don’t get me wrong — mostly, it sucks. I’m stressed about money, I’ve got bills to pay, and I’m boooooored. That said, however, I seem to be making a TON of progress on various projects that have been piling up. For example: Making headway on a font [...]
So I’ve figured out the markets I’ll be submitting these two new stories to — the first one I started is going to start the Grand Tour of Rejection at Strange Horizons, and the second will start the journey at F&SF. I will have to do the smart thing and create a spreadsheet to track [...]
…so an item of note: old TVs can catch fire spontaneously, even when powered-off and such. For once, I am grateful to be unemployed, as I was actually home when the debacle occurred. Fortunately, I unplugged the beast before it got too out-of-hand, and was pretty able to keep it from spreading beyond the innards [...]
The Off-Season Plague seems to have vanished. By yesterday evening, all my symptoms except the swollen glands were gone. Today, those seem to have departed as well. This is a good thing. I’ll definitely be taking a spin on the stationary trainer for about 30 minutes today…but that has to wait until after I get [...]
It’s the “most wonderful time of the year” again, and wow. I’m just not there. I did hear Run-D.M.C.’s “Christmas in Hollis” on the radio the other day, and that put a smile on my face. And Eric Cartman singing “Swiss Colony Beef Log” still cracks me up to no end.
