I met a potential employment lead yesterday, at a dinner following a reading at the Harvard Bookstore given by Moorishgirl.com author Laila Lalami. Laila writes beautifully, and reads just as well. Plus, if there was ever a more beautifully alliterative name, I have not heard it– sure, silly alliterative names, but this is a good one. It was a rather odd little collection of people at dinner: three female fiction writers, Bookdwarf, and three guys: me, a software engineer married to one of the fiction writers, and a tech-writing manager married to one of the others. Hooray for continuing gender stereotypes. At any rate, tech-writing-manager guy said he didn’t have any openings at the moment but I should send him my resume just in case. There’s a chance that my skills will match their needs, and a chance that he’ll have budget to add someone. Many chances put together equal employment.
Before that, I cleaned the house and did laundry, and spent two hours at the gym. My non-career goals right now involve developing an intimidating look that can be cleaned up rapidly if I get an interview: lots of gym time, plus strategically groomed stubble.
At first I was afraid of all the effort that strategically groomed stubble would require, but really I can spend up to an hour on it every day, and still be bored and out of things to do by five.
Secretly Ironic 