and now that it is, i find i have nothing of consequence to say. this "having nothing to say" phenomenon could explain the dip in my readership as of late.
sorry, readership!
i find that i am just tired lately. which seems ridiculous, as i am unemployed. but i feel like i'm doing a pretty good job of getting out there, interviewing for jobs, making contacts, trying to get acclimated to DC. and that, friends, is kinda tiring! yesterday i went on two interviews, and then went out with BoyCat, one of his co-workers, and a friend from grad school. a co-worker of grad school friend came along, and she is actually going to help me get in and talk with some people at Media Matters, a great, liberal watchdog group. so, even though i am spent from my long day yesterday, good things happen when i get out and do stuff!
so i need to do that. more stuff. even though i'm tired. i'm off in an hour or so to go downtown and meet a friend of a friend who works for a liberal leadership organization for coffee, and also potentially meet up with another friend's contact who works for NOW.
one of a variety of lessons already learned here in DC: networking is exhausting, but worth it.
i hope.
Good luck with the job hunt!
ReplyDeleteI was always super tired (for the last 3.5 months while I was looking) and now that I am working and getting way less sleep I have more energy. Maybe being bored to death by daytime TV really is harder than work.
Being unemployed is the most tiring job in the world.
ReplyDeleteBTW, if you get a job at Media Matters, you'll *totally* be my hero. I mean, not that you're not already...
networking sucks. I'd like to build a robot to do it for me.
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