Unemployment
Tonight I wanted to celebrate. I had a LONG awaited interview with a company I have coveted for some time. It was a huge success, although I still have no employer. Yet! It was as if it were a cocktail party and I was the most fabulous person there. I loved her, she loved me we talked and laughed and called it an interview. Even if I do not get the job I will add her to my E-mail list.
While I do ask for your positive thoughts on this matter I will say that unemployment has its rewards. The foot note to this is my VERY liquidated portfolio (Do not tell my brother the CPA...) Anyway, I live well and work for myself. So the time off requests are easy to get approved. Travel has been fun, San Francisco where I saw Phoebe and her house. We saw "Beach Blanket Babylon" a SF urban legend of 30 years. "If you ever can, see the show!" It is good for the soul and what ails you. I first saw the show 15 years ago. It changed my life. The younger man I was became a new more worldly curious person. Somehow I wondered about the whole huge world around me. Most of it I'd never seen. Years later, now more traveled, with Phoebe, Tyler and Barkley I realized it was not so much the fantastic show. However my fascination is the people in the show. And how I longed to be like them! The magic created on stage, the courage it takes to perform. The costumes the lunacy of everything it represents. I adore it and embrace how it changed me. Thank God, the UCP, (See my last TWIMC) I am all the better for it and to now, know it. I would have missed all this if I had been at work that day.
It is not so much that I want to be a STAR! Just the supper star of my own life. I took that with me today to that interview. I wanted this job and sought after it. And, 2 months and 22 days later...
Maybe I will not get the job, or OH GOD WHAT IF I GET THE JOB! Either way it has been a great career, the past 15 hours. I could retire now and garden with my Father. Or go to work.
The celebration was as usual, food, wine and cigarettes. We (the usual suspects) toasted life in all of our varied stations. Angie aka "Let's have one more drink Angie" offered that invitation. I obliged. Two places later we where upon the Red Lounge. A stylish and groovy bar/place to eat but mostly drink and pose. Where upon we encountered new friends. Tom and Slade. While Tom is a sexy, handsome endlessly entertaining man that somehow makes you want to sing show tunes naked in a stranger’s hot tub kinda guy: Slade took Angie's fantasy. He is a beautiful man of classic good looks. Rugged and masculine yet graceful. He has an economy of movement that says "I am strong and wise". (I think Daniel Steel just spoke through my keyboard)
All the same, we enjoyed their company and hope to enjoy their acquaintance again soon.
Our drive home included discussion of the two men and their respective attributes. To include why we find anyone sexy. Is it pheromones or testosterone? A wide pair of shoulders that fill out his blue sweeter like post and beam construction. A master’s degree or dreams of opening a cabaret bar in the basement. I like to think it is their courageous spirit to relocate to Louisville and open a business and start new lives there-in they star their own leading roles. I welcome both of you to Louisville and say "BRAVO!"
I am grateful to know people like them. I can now see in myself the spirit I saw on stage in San Francisco and in the faces at the Red Lounge. All it took was some time off work!
Sincerely, Leland
While I do ask for your positive thoughts on this matter I will say that unemployment has its rewards. The foot note to this is my VERY liquidated portfolio (Do not tell my brother the CPA...) Anyway, I live well and work for myself. So the time off requests are easy to get approved. Travel has been fun, San Francisco where I saw Phoebe and her house. We saw "Beach Blanket Babylon" a SF urban legend of 30 years. "If you ever can, see the show!" It is good for the soul and what ails you. I first saw the show 15 years ago. It changed my life. The younger man I was became a new more worldly curious person. Somehow I wondered about the whole huge world around me. Most of it I'd never seen. Years later, now more traveled, with Phoebe, Tyler and Barkley I realized it was not so much the fantastic show. However my fascination is the people in the show. And how I longed to be like them! The magic created on stage, the courage it takes to perform. The costumes the lunacy of everything it represents. I adore it and embrace how it changed me. Thank God, the UCP, (See my last TWIMC) I am all the better for it and to now, know it. I would have missed all this if I had been at work that day.
It is not so much that I want to be a STAR! Just the supper star of my own life. I took that with me today to that interview. I wanted this job and sought after it. And, 2 months and 22 days later...
Maybe I will not get the job, or OH GOD WHAT IF I GET THE JOB! Either way it has been a great career, the past 15 hours. I could retire now and garden with my Father. Or go to work.
The celebration was as usual, food, wine and cigarettes. We (the usual suspects) toasted life in all of our varied stations. Angie aka "Let's have one more drink Angie" offered that invitation. I obliged. Two places later we where upon the Red Lounge. A stylish and groovy bar/place to eat but mostly drink and pose. Where upon we encountered new friends. Tom and Slade. While Tom is a sexy, handsome endlessly entertaining man that somehow makes you want to sing show tunes naked in a stranger’s hot tub kinda guy: Slade took Angie's fantasy. He is a beautiful man of classic good looks. Rugged and masculine yet graceful. He has an economy of movement that says "I am strong and wise". (I think Daniel Steel just spoke through my keyboard)
All the same, we enjoyed their company and hope to enjoy their acquaintance again soon.
Our drive home included discussion of the two men and their respective attributes. To include why we find anyone sexy. Is it pheromones or testosterone? A wide pair of shoulders that fill out his blue sweeter like post and beam construction. A master’s degree or dreams of opening a cabaret bar in the basement. I like to think it is their courageous spirit to relocate to Louisville and open a business and start new lives there-in they star their own leading roles. I welcome both of you to Louisville and say "BRAVO!"
I am grateful to know people like them. I can now see in myself the spirit I saw on stage in San Francisco and in the faces at the Red Lounge. All it took was some time off work!
Sincerely, Leland
posted by Leland at 3:52 PM
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