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Wednesday, September 29th, 2021AD
It's been a little while since I last wrote here. Work at the high school has begun again for me; I'm happy to be working there.
I just finished this book called _How Everything Can Collapse_ by Pablo Servigne and Raphaël Stevens. It's a pretty terrifying book translated from French to English. The book charts our civilization's eventual collapse due to
At the risk of sounding like a grug-brained smelly libtard hippy -- yeah, all of those things are happening and there's basically no way to stop it. I probably will never have the same level of material prosperity as my parents or grandparents, and there's very little I can do individually (barring go innawoods, which is just running away) to stop any of it. The authors basically say "yeah we're not presenting solutions in this book because we can't; homaro estas je danĝero :DD"
Remember the wildfires I wrote about in summer and how hot it was? Something like 90℉ every day for the months of June and July? This will continue even past the coal and oil being used up.
Pretty sobering.
Not all hope is lost though, and I can't let myself be paralyzed by "anxiety" over decisions made by companies and rich men thousands of miles removed from my life. Amazon still sucks, and Trantor will be in ruins in less than five hundred years, probably.
I interviewed yesterday for an administrative position at a property management company. That job (if I get it) would be really different from what I've done before. It'd be almost all office work, mailings, stuff like that. I could work from home (yay 🦠), and I have an option for benefits, but the work might be mind numbing (oh noes 😜).
I'll probably take the job. Whatever it entails, it will definitely be better than working at the community center like I did over the summer. My former supervisor got fired from there recently -- she stopped showing up and I absolutely cannot blame her.
I sometimes miss being in undergrad, and feel like I took the experience for granted. Because of the extraordinary circumstances I graduated in (coronervirus :DDDD) I feel like college isn't really finished. Sure, I have the degree and am starting to work in "the real world", but there's a sense that I'm not done there yet.
I don't know if I miss the classes, the campus, the roommates, or the classmates. I think it's a combination of all of them. They just disabled my university email account today, which I guess is why I'm thinking about all this again.
I'm still involved in two student groups on campus, though I can feel myself drifting away from both of them. I applied for a job at one of them (which I didn't get), and the other is really aimed more at current students rather than recent grads.
Maybe this means I should
haha consoom :^)