I just thought of a new way to shave a few cents off my grocery bill. I'm going to call home, and ask my parents to mail me my diploma. Then I will tear it into strips and use it as toilet paper.
So I've been playing a lot of Halo with Internet Friends with Benefits lately, and it's been making me really angry. This is interesting for two reasons. One is that I think my anger goes a tiny bit deeper than Halo, but I'll get back to that in a minute. The other interesting thing is that I've started to categorize a few alternatives to ragequitting Read More...
So, I finally decided I need to spend some time redoing my resume. The problem is, I've spent the last one and a half years doing random things, and I keep tacking them on to the end of my resume to show that I haven't EXACTLY been just sitting on my ass the whole time playing video games. The end result is a long, long, LONG resume with even more disparate, 3 month "experiences" and even less focus than before Read More...
So, I was going to write an update about Christmas and how fantastically wonderful it was because I spent 4 hours freezing my fingers off to put up lights and decorated my parents' entire house and bought and wrapped dozens of presents and baked 200 cookies all while wearing a goofy but wonderful New York Mets Santa hat, but then I realized there were other, more depressing things to talk about Read More...
So, I really didn't want this blog to turn into a whiny flood of bitterness and angst the economy (again), but then I realized...why fight it? Because dammit, I am so fucking angry. Last week, I called the unemployment office. See, I'm pretty sure I don't actually qualify for unemployment, not having worked full time for long enough, but I figured there was no harm in finding out what the rules were Read More...
So the year is winding down and I find myself yet again lost, directionless, and jobless. I have more or less been making ends meet by tutoring in order to avoid the harsh realities of job searching, which still scares me more than the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake. (Yes, I would rather face demented, cannibalistic, chainsaw-wielding psychopaths than ask even one more company if they believed I was worth paying a living wage Read More...
You might recall that last February, I signed up for an account the job board jobfox.com and in a "what the heck, why not" sort of moment also checked the box for their "free resume critique." This fascinating event would have gone totally unnoticed in the annals of history were it not for the response that I received several days later Read More...
You know things are looking grim when plain old sympathy starts to feel like pity. And it's not a whole lot of fun. Last week I started volunteering at my local library, because I need to do something to structure my time, and I'm a huge nerd who loves books and volunteering. Last Tuesday was crazy hectic, because it was the first day after a long weekend, so the backlog of materials to be checked in was huge Read More...
I dream relatively often, but they're usually just random nonsense not really worth repeating. (Except that time I dreamt that Sarah Palin framed me as a cocaine addict. I like talking about that one, because I can literally say, "That woman gives me nightmares.") But last week I had a really interesting dream that was clearly significant Read More...
Whenever my good friend Adelaide and I were feeling particularly distressed about how we'd ever manage to get through MIT and make it into the real world and if we even really wanted to make it into the real world, we'd add a few entries to a list entitled "Laura and Adelaide's Ridiculously Improbable List of Future Plans Read More...
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