Wednesday blathering

Happy Wednesday.  I don't have much to report on today so you'll just get some general blathering.  

I have had a very low-key week.  It still feels so odd not to have a set schedule.  I'm still making my to do lists for the day but the number of items on it is really puny.  Today I'm actually getting out of the house.  I'm meeting my old team for a hike in the morning (seeing as how we are all currently unemployed…) and then in the afternoon I have a meeting scheduled with a career counselor.   It's all part of the severance package – four months of career counseling.  

I had a phone interview with a recruiter today which went well.  It's for a consulting firm and she will be sending on my resume to the hiring team and hopefully they'll like what I have to offer and want to interview me.  If I get past the phone interview stage then they'll fly me to New Jersey for an in person interview.  

Interviewing – Yikes!  I am terrible about selling myself.  It just does not come naturally to me.  Plus they are going to want to see some of my previous work (I'm a training developer, if I haven't mentioned it before) but because all of the training I did for my previous employer is proprietary I can't show them that.  So I'm going to have to come up with a portfolio that I can share.  

Abrupt topic switch.

It's probably time for me to really focus on my Halloween costume.  I have this great idea but I need one component to it which I haven't been able to find just yet.  Admittedly I haven't looked all that hard but I think that's what I'll work on this week.  It would be nice to get that dialed in because the Halloween party is 11 days away!

The weather here in my corner of the universe has been spectacularly nice.  It was 80 degrees and clear blue skies here yesterday.  Today promises to be more of the same.  The roses are still going nuts.  Although the blooms are smaller and the stems are shorter.  

I'll keep enjoying them while I can.