{"id":2310,"date":"2009-11-26T09:26:59","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T16:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=2310"},"modified":"2009-11-26T10:16:13","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T17:16:13","slug":"thank-you-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/26\/thank-you-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You"},"content":{"rendered":"

This has been kind of a crappy year.<\/strong> Work has been scarce and what I’ve found has been less than ideal. I spent the early part of the year in a job that I was so ill-suited for that I cried almost every morning at breakfast. When I was laid off, I was so relieved, but also, more than a little anxious, given the terrible state of the US economy. In May, J. left for Austria for six months and I spent the early part of summer in a black hole. My furnace was given a do not resuscitate order by the inspector in July. Because of the unfortunate economy and my underemployment in the early part of the year, my loan applications for home improvement were declined. In the midst of the blackest part of it all, I missed a flight for a hosted trip to Cozumel and then, came down with some weird flu. It’s been a real Book of Job year in some ways, a year in which I have boomeranged between shaking my fists at the sky and sitting on the couch in my jammies eating cookies while staring dully into space. I have squandered so much of this year feeling like a victim of circumstance, feeling like I am someone else, some depressed single 40 something female, short only a cat or two.
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But it’s not entirely true to say the year has been a complete wash. In addition to the terrible black hole days, there have been some real stunners.<\/p>\n