Productive So Far
Hopefully it won't get too complicated if I write about what's going on currently in between posts narrating our trip to Small Town.
Not that there's a huge amount of things happening right now; I just don't like the idea of letting more days slip by unremarked. We've made arrangements for the movers to come "survey" our apartments to get a sense of how much work will be involved for them, and I've been by my storage place to reacquaint myself with my junk there. Happily, it's not as bad as I'd remembered; there's a bit of stuff that will need boxing, but the stacks of book boxes are not as high nor as deep as feared.
I also now have a date for my unemployment hearing, which luckily is not during the time I'm going to be out of town next month. Still, I'm feeling sort of daunted by the prospect of it. The purpose of it is to ascertain whether I am indeed available and looking for full-time employment. This promises to be a tricky line for me to argue because while I am in fact doing so, there are a lot of complicating factors. There's the issue of there there not being any jobs in my academic fields right now (the work for which I am credentialed and have experience in), there's the problem of my switching into a career where the same thing tends to apply, and then there's my experience doing clerical-administrative type stuff, which I worry may lead the judge to wonder why I'm not looking for more of the same. Add in the move and the complications that causes (too short-term here in SoCal, not settled enough in economically depressed Small Town and vicinity, having to negotiate two simultaneous sets of searches) and it gets even messier. I'm planning to print out all the searches I've been doing on Monster and CalJobs and Craig's List and several of my writers' sites to demonstrate I've been trying at least, even if I'm not all that successful. I still don't know how I'm going to answer the "why aren't you looking for more office work" question, though. *sigh*
On a happier note, today I went to the local big box electronics store and played with the camera I've been coveting all this time. I can get it online for about $200 cheaper, but it was nice to be able to play with it in person. And, I have to say, doing so only confirmed my decision -- I almost couldn't put it down, and walked back for a couple more tries with it, before I finally left the store. It's still quite expensive, even if I go through the discount folks, but, oh, it made me so happy to hold it, especially after all the frustrations of fighting with my current one over the last few weeks.
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