People who love people

are the fakest people in the world.  It’s official, I am not a people person. So yesterday I saw an old friend from high school who I have absolutely no desire to see let alone chat with.  Before you go hating on me for being a bitch (which I totally am so feel free to [...]

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You love me, you love me not

Unemployed people face a lot of rejection.  So in turn they look for new, fun and innovative ways to start valuing their self worth.  I’ve noticed that while I do feel less rejection with the alleged promise of a paycheck, I still find myself looking to the old metrics I’ve come to rely on over [...]

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A little productivity never hurt anyone

Status: Jobs applied for: 2, Gym: $7/visit Today for the first time, I took advantage of my unemployment. After hearing many people suggest I check out the networking groups on www.meetup.com, I finally took the plunge a few weeks ago and poked around.  There were bunches of entrepreneurial networking groups and since I’m always looking [...]

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Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk) takes on twitter

Status Update: Jobs applied for: 3, Gym Membership: $14/visit, Alcohol: none Last night I was watching Larry King Live (my boyfriend got control of the remote which is why CNN was on and not the food network) and Larry had Ashton Kutcher, Puffy (or whatever you want to call him.  I think he might be [...]

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Out like a lamb

Status Update: 4 jobs applied for, 3 new contacts, 2 something something, 1 workout and a partridge in a pear tree The proverb goes March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb.  And it least this year, it was true.  March 1st was miserable disgusting weather and today is warm, sunny and [...]

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The joys of unemployment

I’ve decided the weekend didn’t count, so I’m not updating my status. Unemployment blogs are growing.  This is not surprising since there are increasingly more of us with quite a lot of time on our hands.  I don’t know if it’s that unemployment brings out the inner writer in everyone, or we all secretly hold [...]

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Using twitter for something productive? I’m skeptical…

Workouts: 0, Jobs Applied for: 3, Alcohol Consumed: 0, New Contacts: 3.  I really have no idea what i have against working out.  But today I’m going, for sure, no excuses First of all, you’re all fired!  I throw a question out to all of you yesterday and you just leave me hanging!  I can [...]

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