Common Decency

Most who know me know I am obsessed with Kurt Vonnegut.  As an author, and a person.  I wish I could have been his best friend.  I hate that he died before getting to see GW's reign of terror end.  I agree with everything he has ever said, and wish I had the talent to say things as perfectly as he did.

He has a quote, from the prologue of Slapstick, that I've always remembered for whatever reason:  "I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, "Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency.""

I didn't get the video game tester job.  I called and emailed the contact person several times, and never got a reply.  I wish for a little more common decency from people who are supposed to be professionals.  And, I wasn't expecting to get the job for no good reason either.  I was told, by the person who interviewed me, to email this other person and tell them "Leesa has approved me for training and I am available to start at any time."  To me, this basically means I have the job.  To them, it means nothing.  Jerks.

This whole economy situation makes me feel so weird.  Like, I NEVER expected this is where I would be, nearly one year after graduating from law school WITH HONORS.  But then, there are so many other people in this boat with me...it is so weird.  It is weird for me to have a problem that I don't have an answer to.  It is weird for me to wrap my head around the fact that working crazily hard and doing everything I'm supposed to do hasn't worked out - and tons of people are going through the same thing.  But then I think, maybe it is weird to expect things to be exactly as I envisioned them in ONLY one year - is one year really that long?  I don't know.  I've never done this before. 

I'm with the alcoholics on this one, taking it one day at a time.  "Hi ho."