Writing time

So, I got a job.

For those of you playing at home: I was laid off from my ad writing/marketing job in late 2009. This was fine with me, back in the day. The job had ballooned in proportions that I had not foreseen, and I was not compensated in kind. I worked fourteen hour days, and cried when I got home with the knowledge I had to do it all over again the next day. I gained thirty pounds stress-eating and working through lunch. I was miserable.

Being laid off afforded me unemployment (this was...