O.U.! Officially Unemployed!

As of June 17th, I am officially unemployed! Woohoo! So much to do in this transition time: fix up the apartment, soul-search, figure out what I "really want to do" with my life, read all those books piled up on my nightstand! Work on my writing!

This time -- THIS time I will enjoy my time off BUT I will NOT get lazy. No, I will NOT sleep in, every day must be a nine-to-five work day. Ok, for the first two weeks I can sleep in a little, but after that I must be showered and ready to work by 9:00am! Out of the house! Down the street to Starbucks with me handy olde laptop!

Ah, finally I can be with those people I envied, those people who seem to do their work out of Starbucks. "Lucky people" I would say to myself, they don't have to be desk drones in miserable offices! They get to be among people. Who are these Starbucks laptop-toting, cellphone-talking people? Is the coffee shop their virtual office? How long do they stay before the baristas ask them to leave? Well now I get to find out! As soon as fedex delivers my laptop of course (as soon as -- that is a dangerous procrastinating phrase, must minimize its use during this time).

I feel like my brain started working more slowly once I became O.U. - is that possible? My friend Kim, who quit her job a few months ago, assured me that this is normal, she too is in slow motion. I asked if this slow-down in cognitive function was a temporary reaction, only to abate when the brain "snaps back" to its regular pace of thinking.

"There is no snapping" she assued me, cheerfully. The lack of snapping does not seem to bother her - perhaps I should screen my Kim calls, methinks she might be a bad influence.

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