thanksgiving prayer by william s burroughs

cheery.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7_MYrVzU-Y

one version of language is a virus

so this is how I first heard of this phrase, from laurie anderson's music, the idea she borrowed from william s burroughs of course. enjoy the fashion of the 80s...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZkjoXyexKk

a different world...

Unemployed for the first time in many years, I am fortunate to have a good support network, a cool dating partner, and my recent open studios gig to ease the transition. Terracotta was a great place to work with awesome people and I learned a lot. It's time to move on, and as I look toward the future I see opportunities for sales and project management perhaps, as I look at my options. If people know of IT sales or other sales opportunities, feel free to email me at keatts at gmail dot com, and if you know of ways to break into project management, whether it be training, jobs, certification, or people you know who would be good to talk to, let me know. I am trying to be open to possibities as I have some time to look around.

I don't think it's going to be fun to look for a job until after the election anyway. It should be better then, he says optimistically.

And I am optimistic. Everything happens for a reason, even if it means hard lessons, which I don't think is the case here. We will see what the future brings.

I sold several pieces at Open Studios, and have some definite ideas for new work. Feel free to share your own positive experiences of survival post-job or job change...

Open Studios in the Mission

This will be my first Open Studios, at my new studio in Art Explosions at 17th and Potrero. The hours are listed here: http://www.theartexplosion.com/Events/Events.php

I will have new work and some older work for discounted prices. I look forward to seeing people there friends and many new people.

What else is new? Although my territory at Terracotta has changed, I am still working with people in Western Europe, the US, and Asia, mainly China, Korea and Japan. In the US I am focused on the Midwest i.e. Illinois, Arkansas, Wisconsin, Texas, etc.

It's a great opportunity and lots of cold-calling. Trying to learn as much as I can from my team and from Sandler and other resources. I am pretty much in awe of the developer talent here and am always interested in what is going to happen next with this technology.

great paul bowles quote from the sheltering sky

I have posted this quote many times in many places. It is probably my favorite quote, aside from the opening lines to Mrs. Dalloway....

Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that is so deeply part of your being that you, that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.

Paul Bowles, the Sheltering Sky