2009-01-14
3:15 a.m.

What do unemployment and Grad school have in common (other than the obvious)? 3AM is now sleepytime. But who could sleep when 4 episodes of The Wire are sitting there? Not like I have anywhere to be in the morning.

I think I will be employed very soon though, sadly, at a job I’m not 100% excited about. I want to be, I really want to be excited about it, but I am just not wired to work as a marketing data monkey. This leads to the inevitable early-mid 30’s malaise called “*this* is what I do with most of my time?” I really want to go back to school and turn that Classics minor into a degree and …then…do whatever people with a Classics degree do. What do you do, Classics people? When I knew you, you mostly drank, wore really long scarves, and enjoyed reading out loud from your textbooks while drinking and wearing your scarves. I want to take my knowledge of Greek erotica as seen on the pottery of the golden age and share it with the world. Or at least share it with whatever creepy online community gets off on ancient porn pottery.

But tonight, tonight I look forward to tomorrow where I plan on taking a long bike ride (love the “winter” here), enjoy a long coffee and book at the recently discovered bakery that is run by French people (where I can order pain au chocolate with an accent and not be considered totally pretentious), and perhaps swing by one of the many junk shops and see if I can find some used chairs to go with the horrible/awesome formica table we will be getting soon. I kinda love the freedom of being unemployed, and kind of hate the anxiety.

It is 3:30AM, and I was just about to launch into a long and sad story about HB’s health and deteriorating mental state…but that is too sad and too long a story for right now. Instead I prefer to leave you with dumb jokes about dirty pottery. That is just the kind of guy I am.

A-S