things i've done while unemployed

today i got a job. just a temp job, but a job nonetheless, so i'll be off the bread lines until january or maybe february, depending on how busy my temp job gets. seems like a familiar atmosphere, as my new job is working at an academic office at a university. while i was interviewing, i thought that i should make a list of all the weird, fun, unproductive & crazy productive things i've done over these past 6 months while unemployed. just as a little reminder.

• interviewed for a job at new school university. didn't get it
• interviewed for a job at an ad firm, working on my dream account. didn't get it.
• interviewed for a job working on the show ugly betty. didn't get it.
• had 3 emergency lunches with my girlfriend, working out how we were going to deal with my new job, after the 3 aforementioned job interviews.
• created, with my 2 best buds, a vegetarian cooking show for the internet.
  
• became intimately acquainted with a website called twitter
• spent entire days at movie theaters
• became such an expert at movie hopping that i can now not only jump from theatre to theatre without having to wait more than 5 minutes for the next show to start, but not only that, can execute such a maneuver while watching the 2-3 movies i plan on seeing in that day in the order in which i want to view them.
• multiplied my previous blog output x 100, at least
• came in 2nd place in my fantasy basketball league, won my fantasy baseball league and am currently a front runner in my fantasy football league
• coincidentally, spent way too much time working on my fantasy sports leagues
• became a much better cook
• coincidentally, got fatter
  
• took my appreciation of fine whiskeys along to include the appreciation on fine gins, rums, vodkas & scotches
• coincidentally, got even fatter
• applied for at least 5,000 jobs, of which i heard back from maybe 5. one of which, a job for the NYC Park Service, sent me a postcard to let me know they'd received my job application via the internet, giving me an even greater understanding of how the state government could get itself into a financial crisis
• was admitted to grad school
• rode a sea-doo for the first time ever.
• of the previous two achievements, it's hard to say which one i'm most proud of.
• became marginally dependent upon my girlfriend and my mother, making 2009 the first time i've been financially dependent upon anyone besides myself since 1994 (i.e., the year after i graduated high school)
• got cable
• after watching step brothers for the 4th time, developed an obsession with making microwave nachos
• coincidentally, got fatter
• moved into the nicest apartment i've ever lived in with my nicest girlfriend i've ever had, and feel pretty good about that
• ate at el compadre in echo park twice in one day
• went on an unprecedented number of weekday day trips
• went to the beach in NYC for the first time, went to Cape Cod for the first time, saw San Jose for the first time since I was 1 year old
• got a job working 1 day a week at a retail clothing store, and surprisingly had a lot of fun while working there
• worked 5 days working with my buddy bradley beesley, and not surprisingly had a lot of fun working with him
• spent a monday guiding my mother & other ladies from oklahoma around canal street area purse shopping
• had my folks over to my house/apartment for a dinner party for the first time ever
• worked every connection i've ever made, begged every friend i have, and generally sniveled up to everyone imaginable trying to find work
• got hooked up with awesome work opportunities, including the best job prospect i've ever had, from a friend...of my girlfriend's
• burned 1 full day watching 7 UP & coke commercials on youtube
• got hit on at union pool by the daughter of a noted nyc family whose family's last name is also the name of the street 2 streets over from the one I live on
• quit playing basketball
• coincidentally, got even fatter
• got really depressed
• felt really great about not having to work & having the time to work on anything i wanted to

this list could be twice as long, believe it or not.