let go
I bet you're thinking I'll be writing about how much it sucks that I'm fasting and it's Yom Kippur and how I want to eat but all of that is very secondary today because yesterday afternoon I learned my project at work was canceled and thus, I have been "let go" from my job. To say it sucks would be an understatement. I was totally floored by it and didn't see it coming at all. The hardest part was telling Marissa about it because there's no easy way to tell anyone you've lost your job but it definitely feels like you did something wrong even though I know it isn't my fault. Luckily for me, the situation isn't personal here and they are letting me finish out this week and then I get two weeks of severance pay. It could be a lot worse and it's been handled very professionally.
So I'm back on the job hunting band wagon again and I'll be working on my resume today and applying for jobs. Hopefully I'll get a job before my two weeks of severance pay run out and things can work out. As they say, from my lips to God's ears, right?
Aside from my professional career, Marissa and I went to temple last night and it was a nice, albeit different service. I suspect this temple is conservative (whereas I come from a reform background) and the entire service was very different than what I was used to. They did some weird things like read a few lines of a prayer and then skip down to the last two lines or so as well as interjecting a lot of sermon-type speeches between prayers. Again, it was different than what I was used to but it was nice and I felt good after leaving there. Anyway, I hope the rest of my fast goes by quickly and easily.
Song of the Day: Desert Wind - Avinu Malkenu