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So: yesterday I was on the phone with my mom, and she suggested I take up blogging again, in the hopes of eventually producing something publishable. Like a lot of Mom’s well-meant suggestions, this one was based on some sketchy assumptions and ignored some other basic realities. I’ve kept up the blog (though the original one isn’t accessible to her, and come to think of it I think I want to keep it that way.) And the chances of getting anything published these days, when everyone’s on the internet and everyone on the internet has something to say, are slim. (Trust me. I put in a perfectly good pitch to frickin’ cracked.com, and heard nary a word since.) But it did serve to remind me that I’d been meaning to make a daily practice of actually posting something, and preferably something other than JUST complaining.

She also actually had a good suggestion about subject matter. “You could write about your experience and frustrations looking for a job in this economy! Or about your friends--you did say you had some friends in the same position, right? The new Lost Generation…at least, over here they’re calling your cohort a Lost Generation, coming out of university right when the economy crashed…”

(Huh. Cometothinkofit, I’ve effectively come out of uni. right when the economy crashed *twice*: graduating from Williams after the tech. crash of 2000-2001, then finishing Yale right after the Subprime Mortgage/Generalfuckedupness Crash of 2008. It didn’t affect me much on either occasion, but…well, I’ll return to that subject in some later post.)

Anyway. It seems to me that that’s actually a good idea. Because a lot of you *are* that generation (or is it just a cohort in this generation?), one way or the other. You graduated right when the economy crashed, or you went through academia and then wound up doing Something Completely Different. Or both.
Or your trying (and sometimes succeeding, admittedly!) to make a living writing in an age when, like I say, everyone’s trying to do the same thing.*

And in addition to giving me a reason to vent about the state of the economy and our generation in general, this will give me a reason to revisit my series of how we met posts. (Of which, I now realize, only about one ever got published. Hm. Welp, here’s a chance to rectify that.) Which may be a better subtopic in any case, both because it’s more concrete and because most of what I have to say about the economy and so forth has been said better by other people.

So anyway, that’s the plan. Tune in for (hopefully) daily posts.
Meantime, I have yet ANOTHER article on patenting to try to cut down to size, and I should try to find some jobs for which to apply* as well.



*These are probably good blog post topics in and of themselves.

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