Showing posts with label unemployed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unemployed. Show all posts

November 12, 2008

Things I've Learned from Unemployment

* Staring at the vacuum and using the "power of your mind" will NOT actually make it clean the carpet.

* Checking your email and Facebook every 15 minutes does not encourage people to respond to you faster.

* Season 1 of JAG was pretty good.

* Season 2 of JAG was a little better.

* Season 3 of JAG should be available for pickup from the library shortly.

* David James Elliott (from JAG) is really, really pretty.

* The downstairs neighbor seems to have a good work ethic - at least when it comes to practicing for his audition for American Idol.

* Gray weather and nowhere to be make it difficult to get up in the morning; early afternoon is only slightly easier.

* Approximately half the state is also looking for a job.

* It's depressing when, even with a college degree, you're not actually qualified to do anything (at least, not anything anyone is willing to pay you for). This must be what history majors feel like.

* I wonder what convenience store clerks make.

* Movie soundtracks are fun and a nice way to buy a good mix of music, but they're not terribly valuable when it comes to re-sale.

* Dried "food storage" beans should not be microwaved - it's not dangerous or anything, it just doesn't do much.

* For the first time, I'm reluctant to donate blood - I'm not worried about the needles, but I am painfully aware that I could be selling the plasma instead.

* I'd rather be unemployed in the Bahamas. That way, I'd be jobless with a tan.