Moody Meow

Liberal, lunatic lassie, with mood swings and foot-in-mouth syndrome

The Change has come

Posted on | January 20, 2009 | 1 Comment

I would like to start this post and congratulate my new president. I think that the world will change with him in office. While I believe that there are enormous things to be done in working with our image around the world and how we are perceived, I believe that good deeds can be done in our name again. I think that the last 8 years will be a yoke around his throat, and that it will take great works and good deeds to right the wrongs we have done. I think that our economy is in shambles and unless the people of our country learn to have faith in the system again, we will continue to fail. I think that we have the opportunity to change, and if we have any kind of love for our country and our countrymen, we should change – change how we treat the world we live in, both environmentally and spiritually, change the way we look at the world around us, change how we take responsibility for our own actions. We have as much work to do as he does.

Don’t ever forget that.

In more pedestrian news, news that hits closer to home, both David and I are out of work now. He was laid off the day I got back home from the residency. We have enough money to get by for a couple months, but right now we are going to have to cut all costs and cross our fingers and our toes in trying to get new jobs. Oregon’s unemployment rate is over 9%. And he will not be getting unemployment benefits. He was a contractor. This really puts us in a bind financially and will weigh on me as we both try to work through our projects for school and not fall into despair. But things happen in threes, my friends – we lost our house and had to move suddenly last month, and now David and I are jobless. I think our trials will lessen once both of us get jobs. But the job market is tough here. Tougher than we anticipated, but I also am not sure whether that is a product of our economy or if Portland is just that tough on new arrivals. We have been here almost 2 years…. it’s time for Portland to cut us a break.

Oh, and U-haul sent me to collections over 60 bucks. I paid it, but it’s ridiculous. I will never use them again.

I have a lot of work to due. My entire novel is due for Seton Hill on April 15th and I have months worth of edits to do. I recieved good news from my mentor regarding my future, but I will have to bust my tush to get everything done in time. So while I am unemployed right now, it gives me time to work on things that need to get done. I just hope that I have enough strength of spirit to look beyond my own woes to write the novel that needs to be written.

Tonight, David and I will join the masses in Portland and celebrate the incoming presidency, and raise a glass to a hopeful future. Let’s hope tomorrow is brighter for all of us.

Category: Contemplation, Politics

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One Response to “The Change has come”

  1. Claire
    January 20th, 2009 @ 2:36 pm

    I’m sorry about your hardships but I know things will turn around – they always do! :)

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