Coming and Going

Well, it seems as though no one else will be commenting on my trenchant piece about Pirates and Ninjas so I'm safe to move on to a new post. I'd love to tell everyone (or anyone?) who is still reading my blog from time to time that I've been busy with my fabulous new job that pays me a ridiculous amount of money to mine my nearly unfathomable creativity, but that would be lies. Bold faced ones. Reality is that I still don't have a job which brings my total time of unemployment up to a whopping 19 months. It actually makes me a little ill to think about. As of this week my community ed courses are all finished so my agenda is absolutely free of real commitments. Sad right? I've gone out of town nearly every other weekend for the past two months. Mostly for camping and hiking.
I had a visit from a friend of mine living in Boston, which was very cool. He saw my apartment and must have noticed all the drawing pads lying about. He asked if I was preparing a portfolio. I think my reply was, "yes.... sort of." This would probably be an adequate description if creating a portfolio was equal in time scale to the polishing of rocks by the flow of water.
This brings me to the real reason that I haven't been blogging lately. Frankly I just haven't had the motivation or the desire. There... I said it. Blogging has all but been relegated to the dustbin of my interests. I'm not quite at the point where I'm going to delete this account, but it seems that my posts are becoming more and more infrequent.
I'm just fed up with the world. This whole job thing is killing me. Apparently, hiring a consumate professional with a college degree, several years of managerial experience, and a brain has never occured to the HR personnel of this region. I'm not suggesting that EMPLOYED people in the Twin Cities are incompetent. I guess I just don't understand why no one is calling me in response to the continuous flow of resumes I put out every day. To sum up, my redoubtability is flagging.