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[infinite_hiatus]

I may have an interview coming up. I found out that one of the guys who was laid off with me from eBay was working at a place I had applied to, so I asked him to pass on my resume to HR. He did, but he wrote back to warn me that they were "a little concerned that your resume looks like you jump around a lot." But he did say they were going to bring me in for an interview. He gets props for giving me the heads up on this so I can address it in an interview. But really, my last job was seasonal, and the job before that was temporary. (Hello people, the US Census is not an ongoing job.) Any any case, I'll just do my best during the interview unlike the AmEx one I had last summer which I totally blew. That's the only job I've interviewed for and not gotten out of my past 6 interviews. But the guy who was interviewing me was a dick. He kept checking his Blackberry while asking me questions, and he just rubbed me the wrong way. And he would have been the one I would have reported to. So I soured on that job during the interview and didn't give it 100%. But I'm going to go for this one full tilt just as soon as I hear from them.

On the writing front, the book is up to 116K words. They're mostly crappy words, but there are some good ones. Overall the book reads as amateurish to me, and that's okay since it is being written by an amateur. I'm just impatient. The question is, when I get a job will I continue to write or will I set it aside as I always do?

Edit: I just came up with this brilliant plan to make a living at writing. I might need to flesh it out more. But here's what I have so far:

1) finish book, 2) get agent, 3) get published, 4) make money