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Well, I am sitting in my office in jeans and a sweater to start cleaning things up and organizing in case they ever want to hire someone else for a few months so they can lay them off when they run out of money. I have 8 more days of work, and I have no idea how to tell my parents. None. I am totally seeing this as an opportunity, and I know I am going to be just fine, but they are going to blame me for this and tell me how much I suck. I just don't want to deal with it.

I don't suck. My boss reiterated 1,000 times that this was not performance-related and that she hated to do it. I know I don't suck. This probably just wasn't the best job for me. But I learned a lot of things I can take on to the next job, and isn't that the point? And I can't get where I need to go here. I have a master career plan that everyone says kicks ass, so why would I stay here and not realize my hopes and dreams? That's just silly. I talked to my financial advisor and he recommended that I free up some of the money that I've invested and that'll be enough to live on with my unemployment for 6 months. And I am positive I can find a job in the next 6 months. In the last week I've sent out at least a dozen resumes, and I have three more sitting on my desk at home. Aside from one -- what I hope was a form letter -- rejection, I still have lots of options. And once I get to Nashville I can make the rounds doing informational interviews at PR firms and getting my resume to every temp agency and search firm in town. While it'll be an expense I probably shouldn't have right now, I will probably join the Nashville chapter of PRSA and start networking there too. And if I start running out of money I'll just get a job somewhere doing something. Honestly, it's no big deal. I have a plan and I'm not worried.

I'm still doing great on the diet and according to the scale at home I am losing. Now, I don't trust the scale at home and the only accurate way to see how you're doing is to weigh yourself once a week on the same scale at the same time, which is why I love TOPS so much. But I just wanted to make sure that I am on the right track, and I am. However, last night, I got a blister on the bottom of my foot. I was doing a great job at the gym, really trying to build up my endurance and I had to call it quits early. I could feel a blister forming on the bottom of my foot and best to call it quits before it got too bad. On the plus side if it hadn't been for the blister I could've easily gone the mile or so that I cut my workout short. So, today I can barely walk (but I'm going to try to squeak out a mile on my walking DVD) but I am pretty happy that not only am I back on track, but I know my limits and when to listen to my body. After you've had an eating disorder in the past, that's a very good thing...

My girlfriends and I are going for a little girls' weekend in June to Vegas. We started planning it last night, and I am pretty excited. One of them has never been to Vegas, and I love that town and can't wait to show her around. And then I realized that I can show them the church where I'll get married if I can ever find a man silly enough to ask me. That's pretty cool, too.

I am not sure how often I'll be posting while my computer's in the shop. Last night I used Dad's for a little bit, but it is very slow. And you have to stay in one place, which sucked when I wanted to watch what was going on with those miners in WV. I might blog on that whole media melee at some point. We'll see. While my heart completely and totally aches for those families, I always have something to say about how journalists race to be first with the story and act completely and totally irresponsibly, resulting in things like the Governor of West Virginia having a press conference at 4 a.m. to cover his ass when it should not have been exposed. I love being a journalist but there's a reason I don't specialize in "breaking news." I have seen way too many people get hurt because someone rushed to get an innacurate story on the air.

I'm going to close with some news from Fred Savage, who I've had a crush on since 1988. Fred's getting a new TV show. He looks cute in the picture. I can't wait. I think I was the only person in America who actually liked that show "Working" he was on.

posted by Laura at 9:02 AM