a small update

[novapsyche]

I worked today! One of the temp agencies was able to find me a 2-day assignment, which isn't much, but it was good. I enjoyed it, tired as I was. Being out of work for a year is very strange. Even if I go another month without work, these two days will be very good for me.

I've submitted resumes and poems online quite a bit this week. All of them, creative endeavors? We'll see. One lady I sent my resume to said she couldn't use me, but her daughter, a manager of a mortgage company on the East Coast, could use someone with my abilities, could she forward my resume? But of course! I don't know anyone in the Washington, D.C. area, but if it's a job, in this economy, it's a job. [I don't want to leave my parents, but I could send them money. Hell, I could move them out of where we're living now (which is not the best of neighborhoods). I could, that is, with a good enough job.]

The poems I've sent through snail mail have, so far, all come back rejected (which was what I expected!). It's the waiting I hate. Even if I continue to be rejected online, at least I'll know sooner.

Comments

[missprune.livejournal.com]

Having read a few of your poems, I just find it so hard to understand why you aren't being accepted and published all over the place! Just keep at it -- you are good. And to be as good as you are while still young... well, that's really wonderful!

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

It's all a process. My ego doesn't bruise nearly as easily as my body does. I'll get published when the right poem comes at the right time (and I get it into the right hands).