I’m in a different spot today than I was yesterday.
Brian may have a contract-based job after a lunch meeting
this afternoon. It is because I heard a business description at a networking event and took action to
get contact information for him to follow up on. Now, he may be on track to at
least part-time income, with an interview with a temp agency next week to
possibly fill in the gaps.
We are scheduled to go to Alabama this weekend for an aikido
seminar. I have never been to Alabama, and it has been a long time since I have
been on the road for more than three hours. I am excited to travel somewhere
new, even though everyone I talk to about it says it won’t be exciting.
I’m trying to stay on top of things at work, but something
has happened where the people I need to talk to are all unavailable until
Thursday (tomorrow), and all my deadlines start next week.
My lead story hasn’t gotten any of my attention until today,
when I realized I hadn’t worked on it at all so far. I’ve sent an email and
gathered some phone numbers, but am hesitant to make any calls until I get some
response from the three or so places I’ve left messages for this afternoon.
The two pages of nonprofit organizations I have to fact
check unveiled a nice surprise when I actually started making calls earlier:
nine of them are for the same organization, just different Austin branches. If
their media person would just call me back, I’d have more than half of this
assignment knocked out today. But I’m unsure that they have gotten the message.
May have to call them again this afternoon or tomorrow.
All in all, I feel a bit more optimistic about things now
that opportunities are panning out for Brian. Being the breadwinner has been a
little stressful on me (and my bank account), but I know he’s been stressed
without work too.
If I could just get myself in gear with focusing on things,
life would be just rosy.
