Unemployment Benefits :: January 14th, 2002 ::
So in Wednesday it will have been two weeks since I was laid off. People I talk to are still asking me if I’m OK, and I think they might expecting me to go through an emotional crisis at some point soon. But I still don’t see it coming. I’m looking for work, I’m not broke, and I’ve been doing all the things that I simply could not do when I was sitting in the office.
Today, I walked to get some cash, then went to get some postcards. It was cold enough outside, and far enough from the drug store (where the cash machine is) and the coffee shop (where the postcards are), that upon arriving to the coffee shop, my glasses fogged over completely. What a frustrating, poorly-timed lesson in condensation.
Here’s some things I’ve been doing:
- Relearning MySQL, working again with PHP
- Listening to a lot of streaming audio
- Writing postcards
- Walking to the post office to mail them
- Going to the library
- Walking to the post office
- Reading what I want to, when I want to
- Staying up until 3 a.m.
- Doing everything before item 8 until 3.a.m
Not bad. And tomorrow I have an "information interview" with a local marketing/public relations firm. It will be interesting to see how my getting laid off will affect my professional interactions from now on.
Because with all this time off, I’ve definitely come to understand that things are different again.
