June 2026
June is my last month at this job. I will be done at the end of this week. It's been good having a date for the end of my contract, although that doesn't mean I wasn't both bored and angry the entire time. I'm still bored and angry, like I won't feel free of this job until I'm out the door on Friday.
I thought I might stay unemployed for a bit, the job market being as it is, but a sub-contractor mentioned an interesting job opportunity at his wife's workplace, so we'll see. I would prefer a couple of months of unemployment before I find a new job, but I'll take whatever.
What else happened in June? I read, I think, nineteen books, beating my old record of seventeen. It's getting to a point where I'm starting to think I should read less and watch more films, because of the money this is costing me.
Some writing was also done. Not much. I wrote a short story with which I am not very satisfied, and I kept writing my autobiography and my longer story. Made some slow progress. I was able to write pretty much the whole month, although lately the heat has been stopping me from writing at home.
Can we talk about the heat? I've never seen anything like it. It's not even July yet and we've been through two massive heatwaves. And to think that this is the coldest summer of the rest of our lives...
Anyway so I'll probably still end up unemployed at home this summer, in which case I'll need to find a way to make writing happen regardless of the weather.
