Corinne's Blog

I forgot how terrible being sick can be, especially when a person is looking for a job.

I don’t feel like doing anything but sleeping and I’ve found that I don’t want to go to my house in Brooklyn Park even though I LIVE THERE.

I should be working tonight but my current state puts me in no condition to be handling an infant.

I’m still looking for a steady day job, one that will provide enough money for me to pay back Theta Chi for Summer’s rent and have spending money for things like FOOD and bus fare.

Everyday I wish that I was driving.

It is really hard to be in this situation. Leo and Tom are some of the closest friends I have right now, they have housed me when I needed to be downtown and they are there to talk to me.

Leo was so nice that he even got me the classifieds from The U of M Newspaper.

I’ve filled out a ton of applications to different places and I’ve interviewed but I still have no one responding to me and trying to hire me…IT’S THE HOLIDAYS should finding a job be SO HARD?!

Right now I just want to drug myself to make the aches and soreness go away.

Last night I hung out with Alex Jeffery it was a nice time to relax and playing guitar hero was a good way to get my mind off my coughing.

The illness is seasonal I know, and I know that last year around this time I got really sick too…I haven’t gotten the flu shot but this isn’t the flu.

I’m so out of it that I fell down the stairs, I was wearing socks and the staircase steps were slippery, it was strange hearing Leo laugh instead of ask me if I was alright. I haven’t fallen down stairs in years and it brought back many memories of my old house at 32nd and DuPont which had a similar looking staircase…how I used to remember stepping the first step and then opening my eyes at the bottom having gotten the wind knocked out of me. At least it was the shorter set of the two consisting of five stairs not 10, 11 or 13.

Does the body really fight better when it is hotter? Should I be bundling myself in blankets instead of writing emails on Leo’s computer inquiring about Santa’s Helper positions?

I don’t even know.

After starting that Podcast with Craig I’ve been longing to get a hold of him so we can record another one.
I know that we both weren’t sick the last time and that we are both sick now…him recovering and me just getting ill. I think he passed it onto me.

I’ve been talking to the people I call my friends around me recently…Leo, Tom, Alex and when I talk about things like Baby names and illness or how I am currently doing I often mention things that I’ve written on my blog in the past. Like last night Alex and I got into a conversation about how the name Apple could be a decent name and why unique names are good in my opinion and bad in Alex’s.
I mentioned to Alex that on my blog under the Baby category that I had a list of baby names…then after that Alex went on about how STUPID Blogs were.
I’ve had a similar conversation with Leo were he told me that he was tired of finding blogs while he was trying to do research for projects.

I think Blogs help me while i do projects because they provide different opinions on topics that I’ve never seen before. Yet I think the world of the blog is becoming a little much with websites like Blog Spot making them so easy. I think if they are used properly that they can help people stay connected and I hope to soon be able to do a podcast episode of Distance no Object with Craig about how they have helped our relationship. I think that Blogging is very therapeutic for me and I don’t really care who is reading them. I wrote a blog about how Blogging was therapeutic not so long ago.

I hope people are reading them because I think my friends could learn a lot about me and the way I think if they read them.
Craig a few months ago wanted to Change his blog for the better, and as an internet personality he’s become quite popular with many followers who comment on his work.

I’d like to do the same so I’ve put together some questions and I hope to put together a survey for this site later like Craig did. For now I’ve just thought of some basic questions…
So my questions are these: (To whoever might be reading this while passing through or otherwise)

How do you know that you have an audience on your blog?
How do you Attract and larger Commenting Audience?
What type of information is good to blog about?
How should I improve my blog in the future?

For now I’ll simmer on how I will get myself more healthy and find a job…

I hope that I will be able to find a job to find things to blog about…stories and such.