I saw a bumper sticker that said "Free Lance!" and I thought to myself "oh, how thoughtful!"

I’m very excited about several things today. First, I’ve already made like 15 bucks filling out stupid surveys, and two, Associated Content gave me an upfront payment on one of my first articles! Its official, I’m a freelancer. I am a writer! Woo-hoo! Drinks are on me tonight.
Oh, and I’m also excited because it sounds like we are going to get a roof-top poker game going soon. I’m VERY excited about this. We’ll have to come up with a clever name for it. Like, oh I don’t know. I’m not clever. Somebody else come up with one.
I had a rather crappy start to my online-poker day however.

I started with 2 tables and within a couple hands, flopped sets (three of a kind from a pocket-pair) on both tables at the same time. Both of these hands were multi-way pots with a standard pre-flop raise. So this is looking pretty darn good for me.

But this is poker.

Guess what happened? On both tables somebody else had flopped a HIGHER set than mine. Yah, that sucks. Lost two stacks in under a minute. Oh well.

That’s poker.

I made one of them back within another 10 minutes and then took a break to write this.

I only mention this because that is a first for me. To have two sets on simultaneous tables beat by higher sets. And that’s saying a lot as I have played somewhere close to the neighborhood of 1 million hands online now (I can clock 8 thousand hands in a day). But I have seen stranger things on the poker tables, stranger by far. Like flopping an AK high flush, and having some moron call big bets and hitting a runner-runner back door straight flush. That kinda sucked. Or the time me and another guy both flopped sets (I had the higher one though), then the turn gave him quads. Then the river gave ME quads.

Anyways.

I’ve been meaning to give a little more background re: my funemployed status, because the last that many of you heard was that I was establishing a private counseling practice here in Brooklyn. Which I did. I have an office, chairs, a website, business cards and everything.

I even bought a lamp.

This was all last summer, I was excited getting this thing set up. Then sometime in the fall I found out that my supervision hours from Washington were not going to transfer, and therefore I didn’t have enough hours (got a bunch in Colorado, but not enough) to satisfy the licensing requirements for NY.

But I had a back up plan, and that was to get supervision here in NYC through a professional in the community. Then I discovered that that wouldn’t fly either: supervision HAS to be obtained within a clinical setting, as an employee of said clinic for NY state to be happy.

Blah.

Job hunting again. But this time, my job hunting was about as half hearted as one could possibly imagine. And here I am. Trying to figure out if its still worth pursuing. I mean, I still am. Technically. But to be honest, I’m enjoying being at home. And I don’t mind Squeaking By, as I wrote previously. And we aren’t sure what we are going to do when Heather graduates in December. We may move out of country, or stay here, or go back to Washington. So it almost seems silly to invest any more into a practice that may be irrelevant.

So there you have it.

That is how fate guided me to my current profession of freelancing. Which, if none of you caught, is so ridiculously appropriate for me, Lance. Free, lance. Lance free of employment. Hahhaaha.

Anyways...

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