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Sweet, Sweet Unemployment (Idle Words)

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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. Frequent Topics Greatest Hits Every Damn Thing Your Host Maciej Cegłowski maciej @ ceglowski.com Threat Please ask permission before reprinting full-text posts or I will crush you.

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…

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