Things to do when you're (f)unemployed

Things I have done:

• Read books in the park
• Watch dogs in the park
• Buy pastels and a sketchbook and randomly make art according to your mood
• Browse bookstores looking longingly at the new books and thinking about the stack of books you haven't read yet sitting on your floor at home
• Read more books in the park
• Laundry!
• Wait 9 hours to get tickets for Shakespeare in the Park, pass out for 2 hours, watch Al Pacino for 3 hours whilst extremely exhausted
• Cook more extensively than you have in the past 6 months
• Actually buy groceries and prepare all your meals for a week rather than eat out
• Be SUPER good and make a big recipe on Sunday that you eat for dinner all week! Who am I?!
• Go for happy hour drinks with people who are employed and have total excuses to be kind of tipsy at 6pm even though you do NOT
• And along those lines, take advantage of all the $3 drink specials in NYC. What is this magical number and why have I never known about it before??
• And then also sort of along those lines, go out for drinks with other unemployed people and feel mildly ashamed when you meet guys at the bar and they start asking about your life. Trump feelings of shame with mild gloating about how you work in the film industry and it is so normal to have periods of unemployment, that's just the renegade lifestyle we lead! [Even if you're basically trying not to have that lifestyle anymore]
• Write poetry and long journal entries
• Actually upload the 600+ pictures you took in Costa Rica, e-mail them to all the people you met there
• Walk ridiculously long distances because what else would you be doing? 50th & 8th Ave to 20th & 1st? Why the hell not?
• Entertain your parents for the day with the NY Transit Museum, walking across the Brooklyn Bridge and Restaurant Week dinner at Megu. Try to appreciate their spastic nature and kind words about your job prospects.
• Play phone tag with your sister who is traipsing around Europe, finally get her on the phone and spend the whole time wallowing in your jealousy of her life
• Do extensive research about free events and volunteer opportunities in NYC and make lists of onces you want to take advantage of. Wait patiently until those events roll around.
• Go see your friend's experimental show where you will pay a dollar to be blindfolded and led through a series of rooms where you'll experience sensations that are supposed to be reiminscent of The Odyssey (I am doing this tonight. I am kind of scared.)
• Write in your blog! Meta!
• Yoga. Lots of yoga. Think long and hard about the way you do yoga and the effect it has on your life and what more you can derive from your practice in regards to your mind, body, and soul.
• Research and make lists of all the classes you want to take once you have a salary and have paid back your parents for your travels to CR and you know, your student loans and rent and food and stuff. 
• Finally figure out how to sell my severely damaged laptop that has been hangin' in the corner of my room for a couple of months. Big chunk of money coming my way! Very exciting. (By big, I mean less than a weekly paycheck from my last job, but all things are relative these days)
• Drag your butt to Pilates on a Sunday morning with your ex-boss and complain to her about your lack of love life and lack of work over brunch immediately after, even though you know she'd hire you in a second
• Finally cave and agree to work for a day on a TV show because WHAT THE HELL you need the money anyway. And maybe you'll meet some cool people. And you're pretty much bored out of your mind and need a little bit of cash so you can continue to eat.

Yes that's right people! I am employed, for a day. Do I get to add this to my resume?  Can I add the part where my old boss BBM'd me saying she's already told the whole office how awesome I am? And the part where I'm mainly super excited because I get to go back to the soundstage where all the guards are hilarious and call me "Meryl"?

In other news, I am super stressed because I am supposed to look at apartments this weekend but at this point there is pretty much zero way how I will afford to live in an apartment past August 20th. Mmhmm. But I am trying to enjoy my (f)unemployment, because ideally, I will hopefully have a real salary job, not a film production job, where I won't get these long breaks anymore and will be on the 2-weeks-vacation train instead. To be honest, the benefits of a salary and health insurance and the whole concept of having a life outside of work would make that completely worth it to me. Because I didn't have any of those things when I was working in production, and that did not make me happy.

In yoga news, I gave myself a break yesterday because my muscles were really unhappy with all the working out I've been doing. Today I'm gonna go to a Foundations class at Sankalpah and see if I can work on my basic yoga poses for a bit to improve the rest of my practice. I am kind of excited by this concept, and hope it kind of shines a light on certain habits I have or ways I can improve. More on this probably tomorrow!