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spacetimeconundrumCause for mild celebration - I have acquired a new (temporary) job!
After months of searching, employment came knocking in the form of a call back from an agency I'd previously applied to and heard nothing back from. It remains to be seen how long this project will last (I was told anywhere from 2 weeks - early December perhaps), but even a brief stint of real paid work will keep the wolves at the door at bay a little while longer. The on-boarding process with the new agency has involved a great deal of unpleasant hoop-jumping, but I've tried to remind myself that this is also a foot in the door; if I prove myself to be valuable or at least non-flaky on this project, they're more likely to consider me for future projects. A week in, I'm hopeful that I've done a decent job on that end, but it's honestly extremely hard to evaluate your own performance when everything is remote and both your bosses and coworkers are faceless names on a computer database.
I've been spending my weekend finalizing my ballot, because as per usual, California has a number of propositions up for vote that require actual research in order to decide which box to check and I know next to nothing about most of the people up for local offices. In a bit of irony, I've mostly been bombarded the last few weeks with emails and political text messages concerning races that are occurring in states I no longer live in. Special shoutout to those foolhardy campaigns who spent money for election data that is several years out of date. Everything for CA has been confined to the truly astonishing number of campaign mailers that have been stuffed in my mailbox for the past several months. (Protip for future campaigns - if I've seen your name in my mailbox more than once, odds are I now hate you and have been shoving all of your mailers into a box to be shredded later. Stop sending me shit.)
Congress continues to be useless. Clearly, they're not gonna get anything stimulus-related done before the election. This is gonna be an ugly winter in the United States regardless of how the election turns out.
A very good friend of mine who lives in another state is running for public office there and seems to be doing well in his race, so fingers crossed that he's successful.
I remember thinking as a kid that 2020 would be the first election year I'd be eligible to run for president, but now that we're here it seems absurd to even contemplate such nonsense; there's no way I would want or be qualified to perform such a job and yet, if pressed, I'd say I'm definitely more qualified than the current holder of said office, so maybe one of these day's I'll actually make good on my constant grumbled threats to run for public office and do it. (Obviously, starting smaller than the presidency.)
Stay safe out there everyone!
After months of searching, employment came knocking in the form of a call back from an agency I'd previously applied to and heard nothing back from. It remains to be seen how long this project will last (I was told anywhere from 2 weeks - early December perhaps), but even a brief stint of real paid work will keep the wolves at the door at bay a little while longer. The on-boarding process with the new agency has involved a great deal of unpleasant hoop-jumping, but I've tried to remind myself that this is also a foot in the door; if I prove myself to be valuable or at least non-flaky on this project, they're more likely to consider me for future projects. A week in, I'm hopeful that I've done a decent job on that end, but it's honestly extremely hard to evaluate your own performance when everything is remote and both your bosses and coworkers are faceless names on a computer database.
I've been spending my weekend finalizing my ballot, because as per usual, California has a number of propositions up for vote that require actual research in order to decide which box to check and I know next to nothing about most of the people up for local offices. In a bit of irony, I've mostly been bombarded the last few weeks with emails and political text messages concerning races that are occurring in states I no longer live in. Special shoutout to those foolhardy campaigns who spent money for election data that is several years out of date. Everything for CA has been confined to the truly astonishing number of campaign mailers that have been stuffed in my mailbox for the past several months. (Protip for future campaigns - if I've seen your name in my mailbox more than once, odds are I now hate you and have been shoving all of your mailers into a box to be shredded later. Stop sending me shit.)
Congress continues to be useless. Clearly, they're not gonna get anything stimulus-related done before the election. This is gonna be an ugly winter in the United States regardless of how the election turns out.
A very good friend of mine who lives in another state is running for public office there and seems to be doing well in his race, so fingers crossed that he's successful.
I remember thinking as a kid that 2020 would be the first election year I'd be eligible to run for president, but now that we're here it seems absurd to even contemplate such nonsense; there's no way I would want or be qualified to perform such a job and yet, if pressed, I'd say I'm definitely more qualified than the current holder of said office, so maybe one of these day's I'll actually make good on my constant grumbled threats to run for public office and do it. (Obviously, starting smaller than the presidency.)
Stay safe out there everyone!
