Don't invite your friend to something and then YOU bail. Shit. Oh well, at least I got to see Suzane... *Googles* Senna talk about her time at a local Dallas station, E! Entertainment, Fox News, and The Onion. She has a coaching business now I guess. Good for her.
I also went to a career fair on the university campus I used to teach at. A former student gave me name tag advice. Many people I talked with thought I was a student or openly commented I looked too young to have been a professor. Wow! Fuck people! Despite the awkwardness, it may have given me a couple good leads though, so I have that going for me.
Otherwise, I'm still watching 2 episodes of The Wire every night this week to finish season 5 by Friday. There are other things I could be doing, but nope. This.
Well, I have to wake up stupid early to run, so good night.
The ageism is annoying.
I guess I can't get too mad at being mistaken for being younger, but every time it happens it's as if all the work I did on that Master's, the two and a half years of teaching at a university, etc. is just gone and I'm reduced to a kid in the eyes of someone MAYBE 3 years my senior (hell, sometimes 3 years my junior and looks older), and I just don't see 28/29 as all that different from 31/32. *Sigh*
I just had someone ask me if I was retired or not today. What the? I'm already feeling too old to switch careers, Thoughts like that don't help. I don't think I look that old either. Maybe I should dye my hair.
Ah the age old you look younger rather than you respect.
I keep being told these literally boyish looks will come in handy somehow ... still waiting.
It will most likely come in handy in your 40s and beyond. For now just be confident of your skills. I hope you find something.
Here's my review of GRIS, by the way.
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