It seems as though it's been a lifetime since the last time I wrote a post. So much has happened to me in the past six months as life's tumultuous journey has led me to a place where I am so utterly happy I can hardly contain my delight! In May, wedding bells rang loud as I married my best friend. And although it's probably cliché to say that my wedding day was one of the best days of my life, it was. My cheeks hurt so much from grinning ear-to-ear that the next morning I could barely open my mouth wide enough to enjoy the breakfast spread at the American Club in Kohler, WI. But alas all self-control and humility was thrown out the window when I was presented with a mouth-watering buffet (the same reason my husband has officially banned me from OCB), and I miraculously managed to devour waffles through the pain.
Since then, things have changed drastically for me. I moved to San Francisco and haven't looked back. Although if this were a perfect world, I'd have my Midwestern family out here with me, but c'est la vie. The month after the move was difficult, however. My husband had a job lined up and was working by mid-July. A different story for me, I was sending out what seemed like millions of resumes. I was depressed, angry and feeling inadequate as the rejections continued to roll in. Long story short, however, after a rather depressing first month in SF, I did find a job. I had been so frustrated just sitting behind a computer that I put up a listing on craigslist for French tutoring. A private junior high/high school contacted me and said they were hiring teachers and I should apply. I did, and got an interview the next day. Turns out, the director had gone to the same college as me and his son had been a student at the school I had been previously working at in Chicago. It was all very serendipitous, but I can only interpret it as a deus ex machina. When God helped me untangle a badly snarled plot of my unemployed life. And the reason I know this term, deus ex machina, is thanks to a section on Greek tragedy that I'm now teaching. Hooray for a job as an English (and French) teacher! I now get paid to read!
So, put your faith into something, because good things will, and do, come. But remember, you also need to put yourself out there, too. It's easy to get into a slump, but life's too short to let it get you down because deep down, we all have the ability to evoke something comparable to the works of one of the great Greek tragedians.
Recommendation: The works of Aeschylus, Sophocles or Euripides
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