To put it bluntly, I got laid off. This happened some time in December, but since the company kept me on through the end of March, I decided to mum’s the word on my recent axing. I’ve been away from ‘conventional’ work now for about a month and a half, scouring job sites, boards and generally throwing myself at the mercy of the job market. Which, in Virginia for what I actually do, is not very supportive. This, to me at least, explains why I haven’t been writing as often as usual. At home, I’ve got more encompassing things to do during spots of boredom peppered throughout my jobless days. Video games, for one. Not to mention, perhaps as a direct result of my canning I’ve developed an unhealthy obsession with the show GhostHunters as well as my DVR. When I’m not searching for jobs, agonizing over cover letters or punishing myself by checking to see if the companies I already applied to and was rejected from have hired anyone else for the position I wanted, I’ve been playing a lot of Ratchet and Clank’s Tools of Destruction, Mass Effect, GTA IV and scrambling to own more and more Blu-Rays. I’m also a little unhealthy when it comes to Mario Kart Wii.
The point of this semi-desperate confession spotted with out-of-work-ironic-self-loathing is to apologize for letting my new religion of job site addiction and couch potato-ism get in the way of my of my normal philosophy of I’ve-got-a-blog-that’s-filled-with-snarky-self-loathing. So, as my personal pledge to you, every time I feel the need for a couch and some car theft in the quiet of my own home, I’m going to try to write before I get completely useless. As a warning I may grow bitter and despondent with this gaming interruption, but I really think it’s better for everyone involved.
I bid you adieu with the sincere promise that I’ll write again soon. Here’s hoping it won’t be more self-obsessed prattling, yeah?
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Let’s all give a bit w00t for self-loathing!