no. of jobs i've applied to: 11
no. of calls i've received: 1

you know, the job market is really tough right now. and it took me months to get to this point, to have enough gumption (ding ding ding: word-of-the-day usage!) to even decide that i needed to start looking, so I should be patient. maybe the fact that i subscribe to a word-of-the-day e-mail will intice possible employers to hire me. i'm banking on the fact that it will. i'm goint to start using words like salubrious and abstemious in my cover letters.