Friday, January 9, 2009
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
bloated bs
So I found myself wondering when Cheryl was going to leave Larry David as I caught up with season 6 of curb from the library, and I glanced towards my lap and my shirt was curled up over my belly and a glass of wine held loosely in my right hand, truly pathetic. As is Larry David. Have you seen the show? Thoroughly painful but entertaining at the same time. So I thought what are the demographics of this show? Maybe I need to advertise . Then I came to my senses and decided to write about unemployment.
Good interview.
Will know more, it is like $20K< than I made last year. I have supplemental income ideas but I sure don't need to pay $300/month health insurance, no sir.
So my sister sent me a package and it is a book of ready made apologies for 8 years of GW, please find one of the apologies as follows:
_______________x___________________________
The Color Orange
c/o The National gallery of Art
600 Constitution Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20565
Dear Orange,
Once upon a time you were the color of deliciousness and joy.
Now you're the color of imminent terror.
Sorry.
Sincerely,
Unemployed in Des Moines
_____________x__________________x___________________
peace out
Good interview.
Will know more, it is like $20K< than I made last year. I have supplemental income ideas but I sure don't need to pay $300/month health insurance, no sir.
So my sister sent me a package and it is a book of ready made apologies for 8 years of GW, please find one of the apologies as follows:
_______________x___________________________
The Color Orange
c/o The National gallery of Art
600 Constitution Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20565
Dear Orange,
Once upon a time you were the color of deliciousness and joy.
Now you're the color of imminent terror.
Sorry.
Sincerely,
Unemployed in Des Moines
_____________x__________________x___________________
peace out
Monday, January 5, 2009
Sad day at the unemployment office
I thought I had to re-file for unemployment today, in person. So I arrived in person bright and early at 10am but was told I would be able to re-file online WHEW as not only was it hard to find a parking space but inside I was told if I wished to see someone in person it would be a 2-3 hour wait and I glanced all around and there was not a seat to be had. It was nuts. In fact as I was exiting the parking lot a news van pulled in. Sad. Scary and sad. The unemployment office had the potential to look like the overwhelmed hospital in Gaza City looked today on the news.
In better news I have a job interview on Wednesday.
In better news I have a job interview on Wednesday.
Thursday, January 1, 2009
2009 Hope Bowl
I believe it was last February (2008) that the Clinton machine was doing its best to shmear Obama and I said to all my friends 'why do they have to poop in my hope bowl?' Well thankfully we all know how that ended up, but the miso is tainted, not only by the Clintons but by greed, religion, lack of civil rights for gay people, yadayadayada. But I still have hope?
I sure hope I find a decent way to earn a living. I have not been idle about finding a job I've had two interviews, with another next week only one is worth talking about but will do so at another time. I've also been examining my priorities as far as what it takes for me to be comfortable and I am fairly simple when it comes to comfort so that was easy to reconcile with. I realized this morning that despite the economy and being jobless I haven't really had to adjust my lifestyle (except I try not to listen or read about the state of the economy as it has the potential to induce a panic attack and recently someone asked me what I do with all of my time and I said that I vacillate between bong hits and panic attacks, and that person said in what order and I said that it really didn't matter) I guess I don't eat out as often but who cares? I would like some new clothes and to be able to take a trip this year so I just need a decent paying job with health care and a 401k that has set hours. Or I come up with a money making entrepreneurial idea, of which I have a few so we shall see. Graphic design is not one of them.
I awakened feeling full of hope this first day of 2009 and I sure as shit am planning on having a prosperous year or else this blog could turn into my own Grapes of Wrath.
That would suck.
Remember make it a Croc free year.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Marijuana Policy Project
Alison Green
resumes@mpp.org
Greetings Alison, November 13, 2008
Please consider this as my cover letter for the position of Arizona Campaign Manager for the Marijuana Policy Project as seen on idealist.org. After reading the goal of the ballot initiative and the job qualifications and responsibilities contained in the job description, I am confident I would be a great asset to the campaign.
Specifically how might I be an asset? Some of my qualifications are as follows: I have successfully orchestrated signature drives; I have recruited supporters and trained them to become advocates; I have successfully lobbied local, state, and federally elected officials and co-chaired press conferences with elected officials; I understand the importance of coalition building through grassroots and grasstops organizing; I understand the absolute necessity of fundraising; and finally I understand the dedication, hard work and long hours it takes to win a campaign. I am a campaign operative for progressive issues and candidates, with more wins under my belt than losses.
As far as the issue goes I would not be telling the truth if I said it was my life long passion to legalize the possession and cultivation of small amounts of marijuana for patients who have a doctor's recommendation. However it is a cause I believe in. Mandatory sentencing for possession of marijuana is causing our prisons to overflow. As my resume supports I worked on a jail bond referendum campaign to build another prison due to overcrowding and the costs associated with overcrowding to taxpayers. I do understand that the Arizona ballot initiative is not about mandatory sentencing though, it is about palliative care. I have a close friend whose brother was diagnosed with brain cancer at the age of 35, and at the end of a long battle that he waged for two years against the cancer, marijuana was his choice of relief, but not legally.
I believe that legalizing the possession and cultivation of small amounts of marijuana on a state by state basis will lead to a different and sharper focus for the U.S. “war on drugs”. The good people in law enforcement will be able to refocus resources on solving true criminal activity and people can be made more comfortable when they are ill.
It is my belief that marijuana, especially marijuana recommended by a doctor is less harmful than any drug being advertised legally on television today that comes with a disclaimer at the end of the commercial which says and I am paraphrasing “side effects may include lymphoma, boils on your face or bleeding out of ones’ eyeballs”. It is time to change the U.S. drug policy on marijuana.
I am ready to fight the good fight and hope that you will consider me for the position of Campaign Manager.
Thank you for this opportunity.
Sincerely,
I drank my own kool aid, fuck me
Happy Thanksgiving and I hope you all have health insurance
Alison Green
resumes@mpp.org
Greetings Alison, November 13, 2008
Please consider this as my cover letter for the position of Arizona Campaign Manager for the Marijuana Policy Project as seen on idealist.org. After reading the goal of the ballot initiative and the job qualifications and responsibilities contained in the job description, I am confident I would be a great asset to the campaign.
Specifically how might I be an asset? Some of my qualifications are as follows: I have successfully orchestrated signature drives; I have recruited supporters and trained them to become advocates; I have successfully lobbied local, state, and federally elected officials and co-chaired press conferences with elected officials; I understand the importance of coalition building through grassroots and grasstops organizing; I understand the absolute necessity of fundraising; and finally I understand the dedication, hard work and long hours it takes to win a campaign. I am a campaign operative for progressive issues and candidates, with more wins under my belt than losses.
As far as the issue goes I would not be telling the truth if I said it was my life long passion to legalize the possession and cultivation of small amounts of marijuana for patients who have a doctor's recommendation. However it is a cause I believe in. Mandatory sentencing for possession of marijuana is causing our prisons to overflow. As my resume supports I worked on a jail bond referendum campaign to build another prison due to overcrowding and the costs associated with overcrowding to taxpayers. I do understand that the Arizona ballot initiative is not about mandatory sentencing though, it is about palliative care. I have a close friend whose brother was diagnosed with brain cancer at the age of 35, and at the end of a long battle that he waged for two years against the cancer, marijuana was his choice of relief, but not legally.
I believe that legalizing the possession and cultivation of small amounts of marijuana on a state by state basis will lead to a different and sharper focus for the U.S. “war on drugs”. The good people in law enforcement will be able to refocus resources on solving true criminal activity and people can be made more comfortable when they are ill.
It is my belief that marijuana, especially marijuana recommended by a doctor is less harmful than any drug being advertised legally on television today that comes with a disclaimer at the end of the commercial which says and I am paraphrasing “side effects may include lymphoma, boils on your face or bleeding out of ones’ eyeballs”. It is time to change the U.S. drug policy on marijuana.
I am ready to fight the good fight and hope that you will consider me for the position of Campaign Manager.
Thank you for this opportunity.
Sincerely,
I drank my own kool aid, fuck me
Happy Thanksgiving and I hope you all have health insurance
Friday, November 21, 2008
Detroit what were you thinking?
Ok. If there is anything I've learned from this process (looking for a job) is that you show up for the interview prepared. How dare the CEO's from the big three show up in DC without so much as a powerpoint let alone a plan for their requested $25B bailout. Can you imagine going to a bank, without any documents or a business plan, and requesting a loan to save your poorly run business- injecting taxpayer money to continue down the same failed path as before- based upon the fact that you took the time out from your busy job to fly in on your corporate jet to be at the meeting? It was the sense of entitlement that really got me. I loved Tom Friedman's response to Brokaw last Sun. on MTP. Brokaw asked if Obama can look Detroit in the eye and say "drop dead?"
MR. TOM FRIEDMAN: "I think he can. He may have to, Tom. You know, Carl Levin, what did he say? He said, "You know, just give us this $25 billion and, and we'll be OK." Tom, if I thought with $25 billion we could save this industry, I'd be for it, OK? But I see no plan right now, no reason to suggest that these people who have driven this industry into a complete ditch have a plan to get it out in the long term and not come back to a six, three months from now, for another $25 billion. Show me that plan.
Remember, what was Detroit's plan two years ago when they, when they confronted this problem? It was to subsidize gasoline at a $1.99 a gallon if you bought a Hummer or Suburban or a big truck--that was their idea of innovation. So, you know, it was like a crack dealer offering subsidized crack rather than, you know, going to a clinic to get--to get off the drug. And, and who is the enabler of that? The enabler of that were the Carl Levins, all the Michigan delegation who didn't go to these people. The outrage of these people, "Now they--we have to save these jobs!" Where was their outrage two years ago, OK, about getting them to be more innovative, to getting them on top of the energy efficiency question? They have been enabling the destruction of this industry. So show me a plan. Show me a plan that says if we give you this $25 billion you're actually going to change. Absent that--remember, Tom, we're going to charge this $25 billion on our kids' Visa cards. This goes on our kids' Visa cards, and we have a moral obligation to make sure this is spent wisely."
Yesterday I found myself in the kitchen early in the morning so I turned on NPR (instead of Today) and it was one "the sky is falling" economic/job related story after another. I was surprised that I wasn't thrown into a full fledged panic attack.
I got a part-time temporary job with UPS.
I haven't posted for awhile due to the fact that I've been focused on submitting writing samples and writing cover letters. I made it to the second round for a campaign manager position in Phoenix, but it was determined that I wasn't a "fit" for the job. Which is a shame because it was for the maryjane policy project. If I don't fit there, do I fit anywhere?
It really sucks that the best thing the lame duck session will produce is an extension for unemployment benefits.
MR. TOM FRIEDMAN: "I think he can. He may have to, Tom. You know, Carl Levin, what did he say? He said, "You know, just give us this $25 billion and, and we'll be OK." Tom, if I thought with $25 billion we could save this industry, I'd be for it, OK? But I see no plan right now, no reason to suggest that these people who have driven this industry into a complete ditch have a plan to get it out in the long term and not come back to a six, three months from now, for another $25 billion. Show me that plan.
Remember, what was Detroit's plan two years ago when they, when they confronted this problem? It was to subsidize gasoline at a $1.99 a gallon if you bought a Hummer or Suburban or a big truck--that was their idea of innovation. So, you know, it was like a crack dealer offering subsidized crack rather than, you know, going to a clinic to get--to get off the drug. And, and who is the enabler of that? The enabler of that were the Carl Levins, all the Michigan delegation who didn't go to these people. The outrage of these people, "Now they--we have to save these jobs!" Where was their outrage two years ago, OK, about getting them to be more innovative, to getting them on top of the energy efficiency question? They have been enabling the destruction of this industry. So show me a plan. Show me a plan that says if we give you this $25 billion you're actually going to change. Absent that--remember, Tom, we're going to charge this $25 billion on our kids' Visa cards. This goes on our kids' Visa cards, and we have a moral obligation to make sure this is spent wisely."
Yesterday I found myself in the kitchen early in the morning so I turned on NPR (instead of Today) and it was one "the sky is falling" economic/job related story after another. I was surprised that I wasn't thrown into a full fledged panic attack.
I got a part-time temporary job with UPS.
I haven't posted for awhile due to the fact that I've been focused on submitting writing samples and writing cover letters. I made it to the second round for a campaign manager position in Phoenix, but it was determined that I wasn't a "fit" for the job. Which is a shame because it was for the maryjane policy project. If I don't fit there, do I fit anywhere?
It really sucks that the best thing the lame duck session will produce is an extension for unemployment benefits.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Now this may help me find a job
"Remember what John Maynard Keynes, the British economist, famously said when he was accused of flip-flopping on his views about government intervention in the markets during the Great Depression: “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?”"
from the NY Times article today about Paulsen's change of focus for the $700B bailout.
Is this trickle down economics?
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