Trials of an unemployed recent grad

Hello! I've decided to resume blogging, however brief this may be. You may recall I experimented with a different host for a while...I guess I lost all of those posts. Luckily they weren't about anything important anyway. So for now I'm just going to complain a little bit about how life is kicking me in the butt. 1. I still don't have a job. It's been a little over three months since I graduated, and despite the fact that I have a near perfect GPA, was editor-in-chief of my college newspaper, and am a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Mensa, I still have no offers. Now this wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that I want to return to business school ASAP, but I can't get in unless I get some awesome job experience under my belt. We are, after all, in a terrible economy. Oh and there's this little factor of embarrassment. Back in high school, I was voted most likely to succeed. FUNNY. I'm succeeding just great from the couch in my living room. 2. Hurricane Irene came whirling through my town, leaving it completely flooded. Oh, ok, no big deal you're probably thinking. I live on a hill. A great, big, giant, enormous hill -- no prob, we won't get flooded. FALSE. Because you know what happened? My sister was learning to drive on the car I drive (I don't own it or I'd be super pissed) and hit a rock. We then had the car towed to a shop downtown, which promptly flooded to four feet in the wake of Hurricane Irene. Screw you, Irene. So now the car I drive is dead and will be scrapped for metal. We took off the plates today. Farewell, Subaru. You were a dear friend. 3. Couples. I hate them. Every time I see a new unlikely couple get together I facepalm. No joke. It's probably going to leave a mark soon. So maybe I'll just become a humorist and satirist instead. Sound good? Good.

returned

Well, I am back from the fabulous NYC, and luckily, I've reunited with my laptop. It's been just about 48 hours since I had Internet access. It was liberating, but at the same time, very frightening. I'm glad to be back with my laptop.

I just placed my laptop on my lap (where it belongs in theory) and it burned my thighs! That's when you know things are getting bad. Or, our relationship is getting hot and heavy. HAHA.

I guess to go over the highlights of my NY trip...

1. Arrived in Port Authority/Times Square Sunday around 3:30.
2. Lugged a large bag around, looking for the Paramount Hotel. Settled for finding a Starbucks where some of the staffers were chilling. + tall iced coffee.
3. Dinner at Ruby Foo's.
4. Walked around, hoping to see a comedy show, but shut down.
5. Scone and coffee at Dean & DeLuca's.
6. Journalism conference sessions.......................
7. Lunch at Sbarro's by my lonesome. + a large Starbucks cappuccino.
8. Sessssionsss...Internship Interview.
9. Dinner at Tony's before student rush for "Next to Normal."
10. Another coffee.
11. "Next to Normal."
12. Pie (late for pi day, but pie nevertheless).
13. Museum of Natural History
14. Home

So all in all it was a good trip. Note to self: Never drink that much coffee over two days again.

Mor(t)ality

Have you ever contemplated the single letter difference between morality and mortality? They're both subjects quite interesting to ponder.

Before I go to sleep every night, both of these ideas percolate in my mind for no real reason. They just do.

I'd like to think objective standards of right and wrong exist, and I'd like to believe that everyone can see and abide by them. But more and more, I'm believing that truth is indeed fragmented and subjective.

Morality, likewise, is perplexing. It's disturbing to me, even though I see the cycle of life in motion each day. Somebody's somebody is being born. Somebody's somebody is dying.

Actually, this is an ongoing discussion in my mind that is only enhanced by the capstone course I'm taking. You know, maybe the capstone is useful after all. It's entitled law and literature, but it really extends way beyond that realm. We examine the fictions of representation and the artifice of law.

At the moment, I'm convinced that the past does not exist, but I know that this point of view is unsustainable. At some point, we must come to terms to reach some sort of agreement of reality, I think.

things I am excited about today

1. Issue 3 of the Bucknellian! Much love!
2. Choice Dance Party
3. Studying all weekend!
4. Fun notes from friends!
5. The chai tea latte I'm going to get myself after I'm done with tomorrow's math homework.

thoughts

You know, I had forgotten how much fun it was to blog...

But anyway, recently I've realized the importance of good posture. It's becoming an issue ever increasing in importance since I realized that poor posture often makes a person look terrible in photos.

And a picture is worth a thousand words...oh, and everyone sees them on Facebook. You can hide nothing from the Internet.

Oh, and my back hurts. So, note to self: sit up/stand up straight.

Ok I'm back.

I tried to blog last week, but then I ended up staying up until just around 4 a.m. because of the newspaper. I got really distracted.

So I'm going to complete a two-minute blog. Clocking in...now.

So, life at BU is quite stressful, what with my three jobs and my non-paid job at the newspaper. We're going to rectify that next year. I do assure you.

I have virtually no free time, aside from right now when I just finished re-reading some more texts on the nature of law and history for my seminar. The seminar is very long and dull when no one participates. Last week I was completely incoherent due to lack of sleep, but now I'm ready for it. I might even take a nap after dinner to prepare myself for the very long night ahead at the newspaper.

This week I had three interviews with potential employers. I think they went well, and I'm glad I went through the process. It's a learning experience. We all must start somewhere.

Yesterday I also attended a reception to introduce post-baccalaureate fellowships. I think I'm going to apply to them because...really, if you're not in it, then you can't win it. So here it goes.

Other than that, I'm very tired, very busy. Story of my life. End.

Probably bye for a while

I lost touch with blogging.