Unemployed! December 22, 2007

With two weeks to get used to the idea, I’m getting pretty excited about moving on. There are a lot of people that I will miss at my company, but I was being paid so far below my market value (largely because I graduated into a disastrous job market in 2003) that I knew I would have to go eventually.

So I turned in my laptop and my ID and my corporate card on Thursday and took my leave. Now I’m two days into 17 glorious days of Gatito before it’s back to the salt mines! One minor gripe is that it would have been nice to have the time off during an ordinary week, when I could do the regular things like go to library story time and swim class. Of course, time off over the holidays is great, too, but I don’t feel I quite get to pretend that I’m a SAHM for a bit.

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We saw Juno tonight and I cried at so many parts for the pregnant teenager, for the potential adoptive parents. It was sad and very well done. I really thought Jennifer Garner gave a much more nuanced performance than I would have thought her capable of doing. In particular, there is moment where Juno tells her she should be grateful that she’s not pregnant, and Jennifer has this look on her face that perfectly captures her trying to hide the hurt, and I think she just got it exactly right.

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My mom gave me $500 in fun money for Christmas today– no saving or bill paying allowed. I may need some tops for my new job since I have been wearing suits for the past four years and I think the new place is more casual, but I don’t want to spend a lot on clothes given plans for near future. I’d kind of like the iTouch, but then again, don’t really need yet another device and am not sure that would be great for the gym anyway. I have also been hankering after a TiVo because the cable company’s DVR is kind of crap in comparison, from a usability standpoint. What would you do with it?

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