{"id":204,"date":"2004-11-08T22:02:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-08T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=204"},"modified":"2008-11-04T12:31:47","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T17:31:47","slug":"204","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/204\/","title":{"rendered":"The fabric of folly is fallin’ apart at the seams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I’ve been in a mad rush, preparing clips packets to send out to newspapers all over the country. Not having Quark and Acrobat Distiller at home makes everything exponentially more annoying, since I am stuck with the resume and clips I burned to a master disc very quickly last month in the old Sidelines<\/span> office, and I’m not sure they’re my best effort. I don’t have a collection of all my pages, which was careless on my part. They’re lost to the ages. The only consolation I can think of is that most of them weren’t really that good anyway.<\/p>\n

Amber’s situation has got me wondering about how far I should really move away. As much as I would love to flee toward a blue state, I’ve got all these other considerations that factor in to the decision. For one, not many of the blue states have design job openings<\/a> right now. For two, I’m young and my family isn’t, and none of us will get any younger in this dimension. I live two and a half hours from them, but I see them maybe four times a year. If I lived further away, would I ever see them? I’d miss them a lot more than I already do. I don’t want to miss Casey and Patrick growing up. And I’m in my fertile 20s (!), so if Phil and I ever decide to “settle down,” wouldn’t I rather be near the familial unit than thousands of miles away?<\/p>\n

So here’s a short list of the first wave of applications:
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/a>
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Cincinnati Enquirer<\/a>
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Des Moines Register<\/a>
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Memphis Commercial Appeal<\/a>
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St. Petersburg Times<\/a>
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South Florida Sun-Sentinel<\/a>
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Sun News<\/a> (Myrtle Beach, SC)
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Knoxville News Sentinel<\/a>
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Courier Journal<\/a> (Louisville, Ky.)
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Lake City Reporter<\/a> (Florida)
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Sun Journal<\/a> (Lewiston, Maine)
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Free-Lance Star<\/a> (Fredericksburg, Va.)<\/p>\n

I also plan to send a packet to The Tennessean<\/span>, even though they’re not hiring and I doubt Fortuna’s wheel would ever spin that much in my favor. And it’s too bad I don’t have a Master’s degree under my belt, because Syracuse<\/a> is hiring a newspaper design professor.<\/p>\n

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Cheryl<\/a> sent me this the other day. Feel free to snatch it and paste it all over cyberspace if that will help you vent your frustration.
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