Not a bad weekend, except for the fact that it was about 4 days shorter than I would have liked. I simply must find a way to improve the workday-to-weekend ratio. I pass a lot of people holding clipboards and begging for signatures on my daily walks through the Pearl, perhaps one of them can take up this cause and get it on the ballot.

I actually made some headway on the new job front- I scored a phone interview on Saturday for a totally new position (not at an agency, and not for a project management role). Yeah! Then, because I am awesome, I botched the interview. They asked me perfectly reasonable questions, including ones I had anticipated and prepped for, and I responded with a rambling, unrelated assortment of words. It should be noted that the primary task of the position I was interviewing for is to clearly and effectively communicate information to a wide range of people.

I think I am beginning to understand why it is that I have never landed a job that I was truly excited about. Apparently, excitement causes my synapses to fire wildly and destructively, decimating logical thoughts and replacing them with meaningless jibberish. Apathy, by contrast, renders me calm, intelligent and eloquent.

Solution: find a job that piques my interest; prior to the interview, use hypnosis or some form of mind control to convince myself that I would despise the job; after the interview, revert my brain to its initial state of excitement and enthusiasm.

Have another suggestion? I’m all ears…