GRABBINGSAND

okay. i have heard your complaints. if you have any more, please give them to rusty the bailiff and he will mark them as further evidence. so i have had an extended recess from the webpage. please forgive me.

you would think that being home and looking for work would leave me with fistfuls of time. plenty of opportunity to release pent-up creativity and write that great american novel, or at least that not-yet-published philosophical tract. but neither have occured. not yet. perhaps when the only wordsyou are truly pondering are those in your cover letters and resume, the creative process grinds to a halt. stunted by the practicality and the waiting involved.

looking for a job is different now. the internet has eliminated the old school way of scanning the tiny black print of the newspaper classifieds. now you can scan the 12-point Arial font of scores of posting-based websites. and they all profess to make the process easier because they will be happy to take your resume and plaster it for all to see. kind of like a lost & found bulletin board in a train station.

and it sometimes works. you get some phone calls…

other things going on.

i have found myself playing a few online games, thanks to free time and DSL. counter-strike, a modification for half-life. no doubt the explosions and gunfire have been a source of head pain for my roommate. i try to keep the carnage to a minimum when he is studying. i am trying to determine the source of my fascination. the games are quick, rather realistic and frequently brutal. played online, i am typically linking into servers at georgia tech or emory. no doubt, this will lessen with the reintroduction of a worker’s schedule.

saw a few movies recently. unbreakable. charlie’s angels. the grinch. i have things to say about all of them, but maybe later.

buying a few christmas gifts, watching the old bank account.

now i am waiting for that phonecall. did the interview last week work? did i impress? was the tie the right color? did i stutter? did they notice the slight dryness in my speech? was i witty, without being too familiar?

the trials of an involuntary vacation.