Okay, anyway. . .

So I started that post the other day and then I had to go and now I don't really remember if I had more to say along those same lines. Thanks much to everyone who has encouraged me to update my blog, especially my sisters because they are the coolest people I know!

One thing I was going to say along the lines of a progress was that I have accomplished two goals on my long-term list of things to do: I have been CPR certified and I have taken the GRE. I'll have to re-certify in a year and I might possibly retake the GRE, but still, it's nice to cross things off that list. Another one on there is to see the Rocky Horror Picture Show in the theater with audience participation at the Parkway.

Oh, I have an Oakland Public Library card now. That's a good thing and I think it was on my longish term list of things to do.

One thing on that list I have not yet accomplished is finding a job. Hey, I'm trying. Someone said that to be a writer you have to be rejected 100 times or something like that. How many times do you have to be rejected to be employed? 42? Is the answer blowing in the wind?

Well, how many do we have? How many licks to get to the center?
If you just count from my great return to the Bay Area in the fall, and not from the summer, then....
1. UCSF MAC Job #1. Dream Job.
2. UCSF MAC Job #2. Not a dream job, but still good.
3. UCSF Neurology job. [pending...don't know yet one way or the other]
4. PLoS job. [pending...just sent my stuff in today]

Hmm. It sure seemed like there were more rejections. I'll have to remember and post them later.

Then there are the temp agencies that never called me back and the positions I wasn't quite qualified for. One piece of good news (not the only one, but the most concrete) is the substitute instructional aide gig at the school in Marin.

There are leads, still. One day when I thought my leads had dried up, I had 3 on my plate the next day. One was the Marin thing.

Well, here's a cheerier topic, and a favorite of unemployed people everywhere: Things I will buy when I have a job:
1. A bike
2. File drawers?
3. Maybe a new tea kettle
4. Possibly a new bookshelf
5. Stuff to throw a party with
6. Like mini muffin pans! mmm, maybe silicone non-stick mini muffin pans...oooo
7. Brian Wilson's "Smile" (though I should borrow JF's first to see if I like it). One of the two good CSNY "best of" CDS. A They Might Be Giants CD.

...to be continued...
- posted by k @ 11:03 PM