Why I need to find a full-time job....

And what poor sap has to total everything up?

“We’ll assign a research assistant or a hapless intern to try to count up most of the tips in the magazine and find some way to quantify for the cover of the magazine,” Mr. Zinczenko said.

That comes out of a story on why magazines feel the need to count up to insanely high numbers on the cover that no reader would ever actually double check. I found it via UnBeige.

While I think having 570+ is a bit obsessive, I am of the mindset that if they put a numbered list on the cover, that's what I want to see in the magazine---listed 1 through X. I can't get enough of them, apparently.

And so, three numbers that would be on my cover had I started a magazine just about me and my crazed job-seeking life.

I think it would be called 'Obsessive'
Tagline: Yes, I will fret unnecessarily over the little things.
Themed Issue: Finding a Job

1. SIX. The total job applications sent out last week in a nervous fit of 'must-find-work-before-recessionITIS'
2. 1500. The total number hours I can work before my 'temp' status is officially up and I become unemployeed.
3. 25. The ever approaching age where I will have to admit I am a quarter of a century old and still not settled down.




Man, I crack myself up. I told two or three friends a month ago they had permission to slap me if I got crazy about this job thing, and I think the slap rule has just come into effect once again. sigh. back to work.