Another Day, Another Job Search

I encountered resistance to getting out of bed yesterday. Scratch that. I encounter resistance to getting out of bed every day of my life. But yesterday, and especially today, were particularly rough. I haven't been sleeping as well, mostly because I haven't been as active as I would be if I was at school or had a job, both things which are now lacking in my life. So even though I've been sleeping upwards of 8 hours, I wake up tired every morning. 

But today was especially difficult to get up. It's Wednesday already, and even though it was a holiday weekend (therefore I did not job search on Monday), I'm already mentally exhausted by the job search. Yesterday I spent a ton of time on the computer and seemingly got nothing out of it except a massive headache. So today, I was going to get up at 8:30 and get a jumpstart on the job search. Well, I haven't woken up at 8:30 any of the other four mornings my alarm had been set to that time. I don't know why today would be different. So two hours later, I lay there in my bed, looking at my laptop, looking back to my pillow, wondering who would win. The only reason I finally got up was because I had to use the facilities; otherwise, I'd probably still be in my bed. 

I've decided to blog first, search later, because I need some motivation to look. As my aunt says, if it's on my blog, then I will do it. So in terms of job searching today, I have nothing to report, although I did get an updated vacancy list from the State Department. I perused, but most of the positions were for Afghanistan or Iraq (which I have considered applying to these jobs). But I don't have the language skills to cut it, so that went by the wayside. Maybe I should look into taking the Foreign Service Officer test....