Brrrrr. So cold. So very cold. At rowing practice this morning the temperature
must have been well down into the 30s, which when your blood is thinned to Arizona
level is very very damn cold, ya, you betcha. I took a hot shower right away
instead of after reading email as usual, and I'm drinking hot tea and eating
oatmeal, but my hands are still stiff and a little numb. Brr brrr brrrr brrrr
brrrrrr! (Yes, it gets much colder most places. In most of those places, people
don't row all winter.)
It was so cold it apparently affected my brain
cells and I couldn't remember AussieCoach's name all morning. Not that it matters,
since I didn't have to talk to him much and since, anyway, you almost never do use
someone's name while talking directly to them. Still, it was a bit disorienting,
though not as bad as the first time I woke up next to my on-again-off-again-for-
five-years college boyfriend, whom I had already known for almost a year at that
point, and couldn't remember his name. In that case I blame the aftereffects of an
odd and vivid dream. I have been dreaming a lot lately, but I think cold and
stress and incipient senility have more to do with this one.
The
cat's just jumped onto my lap, purring and radiating a little bit of heat. The
latter makes him more welcome than usual when I'm trying to type. What I really
need is to convince one cat to sit on my lap and the other to curl around my
butt.
The latest career perplexity is that yesterday I spoke to a
career counselor. I feel I could really use someone to suggest other fields my
skills and personality might fit into, and other avenues in which to look for
jobs. On the other hand, the word "fee" set off all my scam-detectors. This is a
firm that's been around for quite a while, and seems solid, but I just don't know.
They did a personality test (Myers-Briggs, and I'm an ENTP, but I knew that
already) and promised counseling on my resume and interview skills and on direct
targeting to employers. On the other hand, I've had people look at my resume, I
think my interview skills are OK though not stellar, and the reason I haven't done
more targeted marketing is mostly that I really don't know exactly what I
want to do next. Maybe I just answered my own question. I asked Yosemite Sam about
the counseling firm this morning (he's been a recruiter and is now in HR), and he
told me they're a crock, and that I wouldn't get anything useful from them. He
also kindly offered to look at my resume himself. I'm not sure what to do next,
but I do know not to disdain free help. (After all, advice can always be accepted,
adapted, or rejected as necessary.)