Taking an "un-" out of my self definition

There are ways of describing myself that are most accurate in the negative. I'm what my friend Peggy Tatyana calls a Failthful Unbeliever. My political beliefs are unAmerican, if you listen to Ann Coulter. But apparently, I am no longer unemployed.

This may seem odd, but I find this a bit frightening. For a long time, I've had nothing going on but looking for work, home stuff, and school. School was going well, home stuff is...eh, what can you say about housework. I failed and failed and failed at looking for work. I only had one or two interviews that went at all well, and in both cases someone else was hired - for one of those, I didn't even get a second interview. But now, something has happened, out of the blue, just on a whim, because of networking. It's not a job, per se, but a consulting gig. I'm going to give it a go and see how I do. I like to think I am very motivated to succeed at this, because we need the money and the situation is just ideal - work from home, learning new things, in an area I'm very good at.

In any case, today feels much like yesterday, except now when people say "what do you do?" I'll say "I'm a database consultant" instead of "I'm unemployed." And that's frightening. Because I have to produce.

Remember my post on meta? Well, yesterday, in my phone conversation with the managing partner (an old friend) he mentioned metadata. I so wanted to tell him about my meta hat.