Ducks in a…

With less than 48 hours until I start the new job I’ve begun frantically tossing things about seeking to get everything together. I’ve melted in my car for multiple hours today running errands and picking things up, dropping things off, faxing things away, etc. I even took a practice run.

Word has begun to spread, I had contact from people at the old job congratulating me on my new job. It’s funny, being unemployed is like an affliction. When you’re unemployed people pity you mostly. “Oh man that sucks. Sorry.” I mean obviously it’s not something positive, but people respond the same to unemployment as they would to hearing that you’re about to undergo surgery. I think if more people knew at church I would have had little old ladies bringing dinner by throughout the week.

I’m just psyched. I’m ready to get going. Overall it’s just very exciting.

Last Sunday I had gone so far as to file unemployment before the burst of activity and the finding of a new job. A woman called me about it this morning and I told her that I had been planning to call them to cancel the filing and she instructed me to write a letter out, include my name and social security number, and fax it in to them as proof that I want it canceled. Little did I recall that the UPS store charged an arm and a leg to fax anything. One page cost me $2.78!

I wonder if I’m the only person who unemployment has cost money. Obviously not, but it’s fun to wonder.

Tomorrow night as I prepare to go to work, I’ll be taking the evening to perform at SAK Comedy Lab in the Lab Rats show. It’s the final show for a dear improv friend so I’m both eager for the show and dreading it as we bid her farewell onto the next leg of her journey.

K got me watching Ewan McGregor‘s documentary, “Long Way Round” about him and a fellow actor named Charley Boorman riding motorcycles from London to New York, crossing Asia and everything in between. It was fascinating stuff and quite drama filled. Well that came out four years ago and they reunited the team to film “Long Way Down” where they go from the top of Scotland down to Capetown, South Africa. It’s quite compelling and great motivation for finding a dream trip of my own and making it happen.

I think my dream trip is to tour the USA and see the sights as well as ride the rides. I’d rent an RV and tour the US’s best roller coasters. Riding them, blogging the experience, probably making videos along the way. It’d be great fun and well worth doing I should think, for the adrenaline junkie that I am.

Tonight I’ve got to film episodes of my Magic the Gathering podcast before my video guy departs on a near month of trips and vacation away from us, so we need to shoot for August and then I’ll be editing the episodes while he’s gone.

It’s busy times, but that’s how I like it. Next time I’ll write about my new financial plan given the new job and an intense desire to stop living paycheck to paycheck.