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Employment Acquired!

So. I got a job. Today’s my first day, in fact.

After weeks of applying to one posting after another, tailoring my resume and writing unique cover letters for each one, it turns out it’s really about who you know. And all this time I thought it was about the Hokey Pokey.

Months before we knew anything about moving back, my friend Lizard got a job at a BAMF (big advertising/marketing firm) and told us about it. Her role seemed like only a slightly more complex version of mine at my last job: answer phone, take notes, email notes to people who do real work, take credit for that work the next time the phone rings.

I happen to excel in that area.

Lizard seems to do quite a bit more than that and we have the same title, but I’m sure they’ll let me slide by on the notes thing.

In the mean time, I’ve been enjoying my final week of unemployment. We’ve been having this incredible sunshine and high temperatures, so I installed a Sega Genesis emulator on my computer and played Sonic The Hedgehog 3, Toejam & Earl (the good one, not Panic on Funkatron, obv, what do you take me for), and Batman Forever, which I think is still one of the best fighting sidescrollers ever made. (And if anyone knows, it’s the guy who thinks playing video games today requires a Sega Genesis emulator.)

I’ve also been trying to take a lot of photos, partly because I can’t get enough photos of this city, the best city on the planet, and partly because I accidentally deleted all my others.

Sup wit you.

Life is good. Really, really good.

If I seem giddier than usual these days, it’s not just because I’m enjoying being back in Chicago. (Though I am.)

Today’s not been unusual, and it’s gone like this:

• Wake up at five. Brew excellent coffee in a french press. Make eggs with salame and four cheeses, and granola with fresh cut strawberries and bananas and almond milk.
• Sit-ups, push-ups, and some curls in the gym. Sorry if that sounds bro-ish, but it makes me feel great, so deal.
• See fiancée off to work, do dishes, shower at leisure.
• Go back to bed for a while.
• Restring a guitar. Play it for a few hours.
• Walk around my favorite place on the planet in the sun.
• Journal. Better stuff than usual.
• Get some good news on the job front.
• Meet fiancée after work. This is always really exciting, like we’ve been together a week instead of five years.
• Get an unexpected call from a job prospect I didn’t know existed. Whoa.
• Band practice.
• Dinner and a couple glasses of wine.
• Early to bed and do it all over.

I’m not gloating, I’m just counting my blessings. Sincere thanks to everyone who has helped me and led me here. I still am and always will be an Ohio boy from Akron, and I didn’t do much to earn this.