So this post is going to be about my intentions for this week, of course. This is a helpful motivational tool for me. I did NOT want to get out of bed today (and seeing as how I'm unemployed, I technically didn't HAVE to). I was feeling rather unmotivated and tired. But after writing my morning pages and mapping out the things I needed to get done today, I willed myself to get out of bed and be productive. YES, it's frustrating to write dozens of job applications and not hear a peep from 99.9% of them. But I told myself that I have to look at this as a game of probability. I can't really engage with how depressing it is while I search, because then I become immobilized and create NO chances for me to work. I have to write many applications in an almost mechanical fashion just so they'll get done. (Admittedly, some days I simply won't do anything. Because it's exhausting and I can't ALWAYS be mechanical. Like yesterday. ALL I did was braid my hair and sit around. But today will be different, Insha'allah.)

OK, here goes.

Intentions For This Week:

♥ Send out revised "Manifesto" for brunch gatherings - Just did this! 9/19/10
♥ Email Phoebe, Cymone and Akeema about Sunday Feminist brunch - Pheebs couldn't make it; I figured Cymone and Keems wouldn't be particularly interested, and I ended up not going anyway!
♥ Attend Sunday Feminist Brunch - see above
♥ Meet with Akeema concerning book project - Productive meeting! This is going to be a fun ride
♥ Send out brunch gathering invite - not done yet
♥ Send Bank of America my claim - umhm. Gotta call these fools 9/20/2010
♥ Update my personal "master plan" (LOL.) - will do next week
♥ Fill out and return Bluestockings volunteer app - done
♥ Contact Nelnet concerning my student loan - not done
♥ Type 50 poems - wasn't particularly motivated to do this one!
♥ Make a collage using the magazines on the floor
♥ Clean my house - eh. not bolding this cuz I could've done a way better job
♥ Refresh my ancestral altar
♥ Determine what would go into an altar for myself
♥ 13-20 hours of job searching - but I did apply to mad jobs on Sunday! MAD. On foot, online
♥ Volunteer with the Audre Lorde Project - aw. next time.
♥ Find out how to join the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
♥ FINISH Pedagogy of the Oppressed - got a few pages left
♥ Go to bed by 2 AM each night - ha!
♥ Do morning yoga/sun salutations 4 times
♥ Drink enough water and eat enough healthy food
♥ Get my eyebrows done
♥ Manicure/pedicure (done by me of course)
♥ Get $50 from SOMEWHERE to make a deposit on my T-Mobile bill by Thurs - thanks Mom
♥ Visit home to pick up items from Mom

ok...off I go to shower, yoga, and job apps!!

~sia