Annoying Autobiographical Pause
I am writing this today because I have writer’s block. Or it could be I have too much to say and I’m afraid I will explode, leaving dripping bits of Newscoma all over the place and dangling off the walls.
On Monday, I am going to get me in the post-employment routine that I will need. I will be more aggressively blogging at NewsTechZilla as well as here. Just warning you. I will need to do that for my own sanity. As for this past week, I have been so immersed in the events that have happened that I’ve had a huge lack of focus.
People keep telling me I’m going to be ok. I met with my former boss from a few years back and he was very supportive. I needed, I guess, to hear that I was going to be all right from someone who thought I did moderately well for him. Folks keep saying to me that I will continue to do well, that this is just a speed bump, but I haven’t gotten to the point of feeling their confidence right now. I’m too raw and I feel a bit invisible. My former boss, the one from the job before this one, was most excellent. I didn’t realize that I needed to hear some of the things he said, but I did apparently.
I don’t know where to even start on this new journey. And, these feeling, well they will pass. I’ve been around the block a time or two, so I know that sometimes you just have to get through the rough patches, find your mojo and move like an alligator is chasing you.
Next week, I will talk to you about Bratfest and the Memphis Pub Crawl with my blogger buddies. I will tell you about meeting Ward Cammack at the tech school in Paris and I will write about how Squirrel Queen has dragged me out in public during times I did not want to see anyone. She, and Homer, have told me to blog despite the fact that I’ve stared warily at this computer that Michael has lent me.
I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up from this one. And, of course, I don’t know what to say right now. I’ve never filed for unemployment before. I guess it won’t be hard. I haven’t done a resume in a long time. Do I add my online work?
I guess I’m open for anything.
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‘Coma, don’t just add your online work — feature it prominently.
Much love and many hugs.
What he said. I’ve found that, at least for me, my online resume is much more important than my real-world jobs. Then again, my real-world jobs are all boring.
I’m not really sure how to express what I want to say to you here, but I’ll give it a shot: I am always glad that you write the way that you do . . . honest, open, real. I am glad that you are writing about this experience, even tho I am bummed that you have to write about it at all. There are a lot of people where you are right now (or people like me, who are a heartbeat away from it) who can’t put the experience and emotions into words and process it…but you can, and you do. So that’s a really special gift you give to people, I think. If this is writer’s block, well, stay blocked awhile. It’s useful. May turn out to be your finest work yet . . .
I have enjoyed reading many of your postings, and I wish you all the best wishes I can in overcoming your temporary financial setbacks, so to speak, as quickly as possible.
Also, I am interested in listening to Ward Cammack speak sometime. I live in the Tri-Cities area though, and I am unaware of any public appearances he has planned in my area.
I have gone to his web site and asked if he had any appearances planned, but I have not received an answer. Of course I understand he or his staff cannot answer every question.
I hope that you can share any public appearances he may eventually have in the Tri-Cities area, if you know of any.
Thank you, and I trust your rain clouds will go away very soon.