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Sweet, Sweet Unemployment (Idle Words)#

07.08.2005

Sweet, Sweet Unemployment

It's now been over two months since I left my job at the Mellon Foundation, and I've only just found the time to return to this website.

People with jobs don't appreciate the terrific time pressures of unemployment. Having replaced a daily grind of drudgery with the ability to do your heart's desire, all day, every day, until the credit lines run out, you find yourself actually having to go out and do that thing, all day, every day. And you get tired. That Russian novel is not going to read itself, the film festival waits for no man, and if it's not four A.M., those bars are still open.