As Nablopomo or what-have-you arrived upon us, I thought to myself: maybe I should participate! I remember when I had a full, wide-ranging emotional engagement with this writing space that brought me great pleasure, even though I mostly used it to wrestle with a bunch of unattractive emotions and childish behaviors. I have been spending a lot of ( Read more... )

The weirdest job interview I ever had was for my first copywriter job. I drove three hours to Houston on a Saturday morning, and when I arrived, after getting lost in a suburb made up wholly of streets named after some combination of the words Babbling, Water, Brook, Rolling, Valley, or River, I discovered that the man interviewing me had been in a ( Read more... )

So I've got a job interview today and have spent the last 24 hours freaking out, you know, as you do. I can clearly remember saying to my former coworkers, about two weeks before I got laid off, that I wouldn't want this very same job under any circumstances, and I guess I stand by that. I wouldn't want it under any circumstances. But I may take it ( Read more... )