Broken Little Person Sitting On A Tree Limb

Sometimes gravity pisses me off.

Having just returned from spending a few days this week for Thanksgiving "up North", there are a few different observations I can make about rural Wisconsin, but for me what sums it up best is the following ...

 

If I heard the song '30 Point Buck' one more time, I would have put my fist through the dashboard. 

...Not that the end of the week is any different for me these days than the beginning or middle of the week, but regardless ...A few musings, observations, and reflections, some of which are no doubt fueled by the fact that I've been up for about 30 hours straight (ahhh, insomnia ...you gotta love it) and as a result, am a tad bit cranky.

 

If misery loves company, why do I so often find myself sitting alone in the dark?

Rather than stating that "things happen for a reason", perhaps people should instead say "weebles wobble but they don't fall down!" ...the two statements have about the same degree of realism and factual content attached to them. But then again, weebles do wobble and don't fall down, so I'm probably doing weebles a disservice by placing them in the same category as that "things happen for a reason" hoo-hah.

Dr. Neil Clark Warren would have been quite adept at selling snake-oil.

Funny, but with each passing day I find myself thinking that nihilists just might have the right idea.

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner are having a girl, Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher (supposedly) got married, and Kate Moss has entered rehab ...remarkably enough, I don't care.

An article in the most recent issue of 'Newsweek' discusses the concept of a 'Type D' personality, and how having a 'Type D' personality can increase your chances of developing heart disease. The article contains a test designed to measure your Negative Affectivity and Social Inhibition. You answer a series of questions and add up the applicable scores and, if your Negative Affectivity score is 10 or higher and your Social Inhibition score is 10 or higher, you qualify as a 'Type D' personality (and thus, potentially increase your chances of developing heart disease). My Negative Affectivity score was 21. My Social Inhibition score was also 21. So ...I have that going for me.

 

 

Happy, happy, joy, joy.

This last week I turned 45 ...many thanks to Joe for capturing the festive occasion (as illustrated below ...I'm the one with the pointed hat and the look of absolute joy etched upon my face). I believe the aforementioned Mr. Harris summed it up best by stating that ...

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?"

This week I got new glasses.

Truly my life is an 'E-Ticket Ride' of thrills and adventure.

So, in reviewing my economic situation I find that my summer vacation (i.e. my leisurely embracement of my state of unemployment) is nearing an end. The harsh reality of needing to pay rent and bills (not to mention keeping up on my weekly allotment of dvds) necessitates my beginning a more robust and immediate job search (of course, I'm rather adept at procrastination, so in this case "immediate" could mean within the next month or so, but we'll see).

Regardless, I turn to my circle of friends and acquaintances (and anyone they're affiliated with) to keep their eyes open and send anything my way. While I'm not painting myself into a corner re/only pursuing any one type of position, it would be ideal to find something that pays an obscene (which dictionary.com describes as "offensive to accepted standards of decency or modesty" and "so large in amount as to be objectionable or outrageous" ...you do the math) amount of money and only involves working 2-4 days a week ...let me know if anything like that crosses your desks.

Also, something with an intern would be nice.

As you can tell by the date range between posts, I've been somewhat remiss in keeping things up-to-date blogwise. Having moved July 1 I've spent the better part of the last month unpacking and coordinating (and re-coordinating ...nothing like a healthy dose of obsessive-compulsiveness to make the time fly). For the most part things are pretty much in order, so I anticipate playing catch-up over the next few days to get caught up on the blog and begin to fully appreciate unemployment leisure. For example, I saw 'Wedding Crashers' today (the review is posted in the appropriate section) and hope to get caught up on films I haven't gotten to yet ...more to come.

487 ...That's the number of steps from the front of my new apartment to local pub 'The Comeback Inn' ...Yep ...I counted them. Never let it be said that I'm not spending my time off from the hallowed halls of employment in a productive manner.

Well ...not really free money, since 8 years of payroll taxes had come before this, but regardless ...I received my first unemployment check today. That got me thinking about investigating the origin of unemployment pay and how exactly the formula was derived. Upon reflection however, that seemed like a lot of work, so I took a nap instead.