Renewed vigor

Wow. Did I write that last post just yesterday? Well, I took a break today, watched a movie (Vicky Christina Barcelona…which I quite liked), talked a few hours with an old friend on the phone, and…just didn’t think about job hunting for a little bit. Though, actually, my friend did give me suggestions as to where I could look. None of them sounded particularly good, but I’m not much in a position to be picky.

I had started, after the movie, to browse craigslist to see what there was in both jobs and housing if I need to relocate. And, although I saw a few jobs that could possibly work, this restlessness came over me and I got the sudden urge to check again for the international jobs. And whadya know? In spite of my assumption that chances were slim near the end of the summer, there were more jobs that had been posted that were right up my alley.

I applied for one of them tonight already. The other one will take a little more time because I need to prepare an essay, and since it was about 10 PM when I started looking…yeah. I’ll finish that one off tomorrow. And there were still more to investigate.

People keep telling me of the things (in this case the jobs) they found serendipitously. That I shouldn’t try looking so hard for what I want. That I should just go with the flow and accept what I can get. Well, I’m willing to look into that, as I mentioned in my last post.

But here’s the thing. I have never found anything in my life serendipitously, and I’ve found that those who claim to have found things serendipitously did so because they never knew what they wanted in the first place.

Well, it’s after midnight so I guess I wrote the last post two days ago now, and I’ll be working on the other application later today. But first, I sleep.