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Wednesday, December 05, 2007
 Freelancing 
There's no excuse for the lack of posts lately, now that I'm "freelancing", a creative term someone used recently to describe those of us without steady work. After leaving the bike shop last month I've managed to get by on savings and a few unusual work opportunities: publishing an article in the Washington Post, With Hot Lanes Must Come Bike Lanes for which I was paid $75. I also participated in a web site usability study, collecting another $100. Then there was the textbook publisher who wanted to use a photo taken in 2000 along the Icefields Parkway during a bike tour from Banff to Jasper. That earned another $100.

Anyway, there should be plenty of time to post but there is always the internal pressure to do something "productive" when not working, and blogging doesn't usually qualify. You need to be unemployed to understand. So the bathroom gets painted, advocacy letters get written, and other volunteer activities take the rest of the time. Better get back to checking out jobs and gigs on craigslist...


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