Feb. 14th, 2008

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Um.... right, yes. So can we just pretend that the total absence of any posts here in over a month wasn't due to EPIC FAIL on my part but was rather a deliberate choice to demonstrate my solidarity with the striking writers? Yes? Nah, didn't think so...

Today I am upbeat, because--in honor, perhaps, of my six-month anniversary of leaving my former job--I have FINALLY secured paid employment, albeit of a vestigial and transitory sort. (Which is to say, I'll be temping at a local company doing low-level admin support stuff, making $16 an hour and cherishing every frackin' penny of it, for lo, six months without a paycheck will play merry hell with one's savings.) I also have an interview lined up for an actual job which would be more or less in my professional field, although several steps down the ladder from where I've spent the past few years, but what-the-hell-ever. I am willing to trade off a lot of ladder-position for the prospect of having (a) a steady income, (b) my own apartment, and (c) health insurance. (Oh, god, how bourgie am I...) We'll see what happens with it, though; my utter inability to actually GET any of the jobs for which I've interviewed out here is something about which I'm trying to maintain a sense of humor, composure, and proportion, reflecting that it is salutary to learn to deal graciously with rejection. (I think I've learned it now, though, cosmos! Honest!)

I am also upbeat because of all the Valentine-y good cheer and promiscuous affection, fannish and otherwise, swirling gaily around the f-list today. I've been feeling some disconnect from my community here, which is entirely due to my own hermit-ing behavior; I haven't been depressed, just sort of reclusive and retracted and lying very low. But I've missed you all; you're lovely people, and I clasp you all to my virtual bosom, with a big sentimental V-Day hug.

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