Throwing in the towel

Well, four months has passed since my last post. I can fill in the blanks pretty quickly. Spent the winter in Buffalo working at Dick's Sporting Goods (so lame), snowboarding for free on Thursday nights with my sister Becky (so great), and lots of good family time. Not necessarily big eventful family stuff. Just the daily life stuff that you don't realize how great it is unless you don't encounter it for a while.

I've also been a busy little bee these past 6 months. I have applied for no less than 135 jobs. While most of these have been in Western NY, some of them have been out West, back up in Alaska, and in various countries like Sweden, Costa Rica, and Korea. And while I don't want to go on record as saying folks who work in Human Resources are inherently evil or without souls, I will say that if I was at a party talking with someone interesting and they mentioned that they worked in HR, I would immediately interrupt with, "Would you excuse me? I cut my foot earlier and my shoe is filling up with blood."

So I'm done. Buffalo and I had a good six month run. I tried to make it work. But I am broke, without the slimmest of job prospects, and itching for some new adventures. So mid-May I'm packing up and heading to Jackson, Wyoming to hang out with my brother for the summer. Oh, and work I suppose. And then quite possibly go to Korea for a year to teach English. But that's 5 months away. I don't want to get ahead of myself. I'll drop a line from the open road...