Little Victories
I've been job hunting a lot lately. I like my job at the group home just fine, but I need a second job. My freelancing gig at the local paper is still in play, but I'm on such a dry spell that it is not even funny. I have to find my own subjects for interviews, and for the past few weeks, I have had no takers.

So I applied for a job with a newspaper in a town not very far from here. It's a small town, and the paper is small too. But they've been around for 120 years or so, and it's a pretty good paper. I could definitely see myself working there and liking it.

I went in for an interview today. I think it went well, but we'll see. Hey, just the fact that they liked my writing enough to give me an interview is a victory.

Another victory for today: I figured out how to use my iPod. I loaded it up with music and listened to it for about an hour.

What's on the pod, you ask? Well, it's sort of spring 'round these parts and in the spring, I'm all about Van Morrison. So that's what I've been listening to. I went to the library and checked out all the Van Morrison CDs I could find and I put all of them on the iPod.

I won't burn any of the music onto CD's though. I'm just borrowing the music, not stealing it. In a couple of weeks, when I'm through this Van Morrisoon phase, I'll just delete the songs on the pod and delete them from my puter.

But until then, I'm listening to one of my favorite singers in the whole world -- and I have about five hours of his music to choose from.

That doesn't suck.

Someday, I'm going to own the discography of Van Morrison -- every song he's ever recorded. But first, someone will have to compile it al.l.