Packing up.

I leave NorCal the day after tomorrow. I'll be heading back to the Midwest, which I'll be treating as home base to recover from this 13 month detour. I hope to keep busy until September, when I start grad school. Some people tell me I should travel, but I feel it would be more important to fill this five month gap between now and school with professional work, paid or not.

Gaps on resumes evoke suspicion from prospective employers. They assume the worst. If you have been unemployed for more than several months, the professional world assumes you've given up on being responsible, taken up some form of low-grade heroin and therefore cannot cooperate in an office environment. So the trick is to find something to do that will make you look busy.

Right now I'm packing up books, clothes and other curiosa to ship back to my family.

Last week, my Dad and I did a small west coast road trip, going from San Simeon all the way up to Arcata. We got ten miles before the Oregonian border and then turned back, unaware that we could have turned the trip into a multi-state experience.

California is an amazing place if you do not have to work for a living. No wonder so many wealthy people live out here. If you work a full time job it's less exciting, and if you're unemployed it's about as shitty as the rest of the country.

This is turning into a thought stream, so I'll leave it at that.