It Sucks to Be Me

So as I was checking my email at the transcription office today to see if I had any more responses to the stem cell research piece I am working on I discovered that the computer book I was five chapters into copyediting has been taken away from me and given to someone who has more technical editing experience.

In all honesty, this is becoming comical. I have now lost more jobs than I can count. I'm talking years of job losses and lately it's just been coming faster and faster.

There's this song in the musical Avenue Q called It Sucks to Be Me (you can find lyrics for it here but you have to do a lot of scrolling) where various and sundry folks around my age sing about how much their life sucks but in the end Gary Coleman ("from TV's Diff'rent Strokes/I made a lotta money/that got stolen by my folks!") wins by having the life that sucks the most.

I feel like Gary Coleman.

I really feel like it's time to throw in the towel in terms of doing any sort of professional work. I want to move to northern NH, go to work at the J. Crew outlet up there, write, hike, and just see what that feels like, because this just isn't working.