A Tree Grows in Brooklyn for Tuesday, October 3, 2006

The title of my post is a take on a book I once read called The Well of Lost Plots, by Jasper Fforde (it's not a typo--that's really his name). The book's a mystery set in a futuristic 1985 and features a detective who solves "literary crimes." It's a good book, and once in a series. Anyways, to get back to the subject of my post, I was wondering: When we write blog entry upon blog entry, and then get lost in the archives of our blogs, do people ever read past entries? For example, after this... Sign in to see full entry.

Yesterday, I felt like shit. Just read over what I wrote. I had no direction, I was grasping at straws, I was feeling helpless and hopeless. I truly loathe getting out there and making the connections that are so necessary when one is searching for a job. But today, even though things haven't improved, I'm still feeling a lot better. I don't know why that is. I guess because I've been training myself NOT to think about this unpleasant subject. I talked to my mom again on the phone. More... Sign in to see full entry.