ACCOZZAGLIA

my best friend found out this morning that she was rejected by the very employer who gave her the solid message that they liked her on Monday when she interviewed in downtown Seattle. this was pretty much her last, big hope for major job leads within her career scope for the next several months. i’m really fucking worried for her.

i got word that i may be taking on an assignment for Microsoft, doing newsletter editing or something along those lines. it sounds encouraging until i add that at most, it’s eight hours a month.

i’m registered with four talent agencies locally (and esteemed highly favourably by three of them), and this is the best and only work they can find. meanwhile, my longtime friend in Houston, registered with two of the same agencies i’m also registered, is drowning in 70 hours of work each week and says she can’t take much more.

anyone doubting how the recession could still be in effect hasn’t been living in the Pacific Northwest — Washington, British Columbia, Oregon and Idaho — lately.

all this is insult to injury in light of today’s news that July’s unemployment rate nationally went down to 6.2 percent. ummm, July just ended in this country EIGHT HOURS AGO. how did they get those numbers out on the first of the month, when they usually get it out around the 4th or 6th during most other months?

anyhow, i have some new cover letters to compose today for openings nationally which complement my professional background and ability. there isn’t much out there.

trouble is, two of them are for two different employers in the backwaters of Lawrenceville, NJ, which is only a few miles between Trenton and Princeton (but not in either). as shimmerydeath made mention last night, one would absolutely need a car to survive in Lawrenceville, which means i’d have to get my car repaired (or sold) if i got a job there.

one of the other openings is for a freelance junior-level designer in the suburbs of Olympia. trouble is, these days, if you’re overqualified, employers will reject you, on account of worrying that they’ll have to overpay for you. plus, it’s part-time freelance, so given its distance from here (about ninety minutes away), the outlay costs of transportation and time may overpower net income.

and the biggest headache of all? i have a storage locker in Minnesota with most of my personal effects and my car contained inside. i have 25 dollars to my name right now. rent is due, and rent is $135. never mind that i can’t afford to buy my meds, which are all plumb out right now (save for one in the three-prescription ensemble) and need renewing with a new doctor locally, even though i don’t have a new doctor locally yet.

* * *

life is so grand. forgive me if i have the propensity to be a little sour and a little joyless right now. it’s almost better just to say nothing than to say what i’m really thinking, cos everything i’m thinking isn’t terribly nice.