The Gift of Unemployment

So I was watching Oprah last night, which is always really inspiring. It was a story about this football star dude who got hit by a car, lost his leg, and relearned how to walk. He later became a marathon runner.

Then he got hit by a bus.

He became a quadriplegic. But still somehow managed to get movement back in his arms and legs by not giving up hope.

And he says it was all meant to happen. Because it led him on his journey to spread his message and story and to inspire others. It gave him time to reflect on his life and his purpose. Honestly, I think it's kind of bullshit and it would take a shitload of convincing before I was able to think that becoming a cripple was a good thing. But either way, the story affected me.

I have decided to totally embrace my unemployment. It was meant to happen this way. If I had quit my job, I wouldn't have had this freedom to do whatever I want. I'd be getting no income and stressed out about finding another job.

Right now, I'm receiving checks from the government, I can take my time to sit down and learn about photography, something I've always wanted to do.

So...I've decided that each day I'm going to either learn a new photoshop trick or camera technique. I'm going to finally go out and buy that super expensive digital SLR camera. And maybe by the end of this whole thing when I find a new job I will have picked up a bunch of new useful skills. Or I'll at least be able to take proper headshots.

And of course, I'll watch a lot of TV.

Here's a new layering thing I figured out how to do yesterday. It'll be the cover image for my New York album (coming soon). It's not that cool. But I figured out all the layering shorcuts so that I can do something like this in like 3 minutes when it normally would have taken an hour. Yay.