Swelter

Have you all been having a good summer?

I hope so.

This will go down as one of the busiest work summers I've had. I thought summer was supposed to be lighter, quiet. It's so hot that you get slower. Tons of people go on vacation, making working challenging. But, nooooo.....this has been the workaholic summer of no love for me.

I've been on several dates lately. Some 2nd-3rd dates in some cases. I like one person, shocking, right? Haha! However, as my luck would have it, it's never easy, smooth or clear. Weird random things happen, travel happens and timing gets complicated.

*sigh*

Over the weekend, Cuz P and I were hanging out by the pool at my parents house. She is interviewing for new jobs. She talked about how exhausting, frustrating and timing play into looking for a new job. Opportunities that she thought were great, disappeared. She'd go on an interview with positive experience and feedback only to get no response for weeks. People don't call back. Emails and messages seem to go into a black hole of the recruiter.

It occurred to me that it was strangely similar to dating. Especially in NYC or perhaps it's just a sign of the times or season? A friend of mine stated at the start of the summer, after breaking up with someone that summer was just not "her season" b/c she found it hard to keep consistency of dating when everyone flees the city.

The parallel of dating and job searching are obviously similar. You are looking for that good match. To find a job where you know you can do the work and hopefully that you want to do....in an environment that you want to do it in. Just like looking for a date, relationship or mate.

So, we sit and wait. Trying to be patient. Continue to be optimistic..in this sweltering, swampy summer heat.

Oh....awkward moment. Recently, I was getting on the subway. The doors opened, puff of nice ice cold a/c coated me (whew!) and there were like 2 people on the whole train. One of them it turns out was Poutine Guy. He looked up from his book and we just stared at each other. I had pretty much just disappeared after he was sending me IM's during the day while I was overwhelmed at work and then at night would send me texts letting me know he had texted me.

Anyway, he invited me to sit beside him on the empty train. Luckily the only other guy was practically asleep. I tried to keep it light. I asked him what he was doing on this line b/c he lives in the opposite direction. He talked about his trip home recently and then.....OH LOOK....we pulled into the next station! I was getting off b/c I had to transfer to a different line, which I was suddenly grateful for! Told him it was nice to see him and to have a good night and jumped off.

I supposed if we didn't have closure, we had it now. :-)