The Hunt

Many apologies to the four or five people who read this blog for my short absence.  I was just so darned happy about Barack Obama's inauguration that I proceeded to go on a four day bender, replete with Uncle Sam hat and a vest constructed entirely out of Obama pins.  

But, I'm back and back means back to what I will henceforth refer to as  "The Hunt."

Today (in similar fashion to the past three weeks) I set my alarm clock for a sensible 8 AM wake-up.  The daily routine I've created to add some structure to my relatively amorphous new lifestyle is as such:

1. Wake at 8 AM

2. Perform some light calesthenics

3. Give myself a morality boosting talking-to in the mirror, vigorously repeating a mantra such as "Your destiny awaits you!", "Carpe Diem!" or "Today I will find suitable employment and realize my full potential!"

4. Brew some coffee

5. Dedicate three hours to online job searching and applications

6.  Meditate 

7. Eat a healthy lunch

8. Dedicate a second three hours to online job searching and applications

9. Dedicate one hour to investigating volunteering opportunities that would allow me to utilize some portion of my free time toward the betterment of society

10. Gym

11. Eat a healthy dinner

12. Dedicate one and a half hours to investigating pursuing a higher degree of some sort

13. Call my mother

14. Curl up with a good murder mystery and a warm glass of milk 

15. Fall soundly asleep by 11 PM

I've always been of ambitious ilk.  Unfortunately, I have not quite fully adopted the above itinerary as of yet.  In fact, the actual breakdown of the my day tends to more resemble the following:

1. Alarm goes off at 8 AM.  Hit snooze

2. Alarm goes off at 8:10 AM. Hit snooze

3. Alarm goes off at 8:20 AM. Turn alarm off

4. Wake at 10:30 AM, realize I don't have to be anywhere, fall back to sleep

5. Wake at noon, jump from bed in flurry, loudly berating myself for sleeping in and not following the tenets of my itinerary

6. Look at myself in the mirror and cringe at my pallor and quickly fading youth

7. Brew coffee

8. Check personal email, respond to various personal emails

9. Read a news website to familiarize myself with the current state of the world

10. Realize its half past one, loudly berate myself again for waking so late

11. Eat a slice of pepperoni pizza and a sausage roll from Mike's Pizzeria

12. 2:30 PM Begin looking at online job sites

13. 3:10 PM Become frustrated by sparsity of jobs, end up on FaceBook

14. Freak the fuck out

15. Calm myself down

16. Spend an hour cathartically writing for this blog

17. Set up some sort of social outing with friends for the evening, oftentimes revolving around drinking

18.  Look at the price of one way flights to Italy and France

19. Apply online for the two jobs I found that I was grossly overqualified for

20. Spend one hour customizing cover letters 

21. Accidently delete cover letter template

22. Freak the fuck out, again

23. Forage in kitchen for snack: eat Chinese sesame crackers with chunky peanut butter - dinner done

24. 8:30 PM Shower, dress and head into the city to meet friends at a bar.

25.  9 PM - 10:30 PM engage in light banter with friends, slowly feel my self esteem becoming inflated, continue drinking

26. 11 PM - 1:30 AM  ?

27. 3 AM Ariv hommme f;lakdjf  go t' sliip

Well, there's always tomorrow...  ~P