And on the third day, he blogged.

On the evening of January 5^th, 2009, I sat down in front of my computer and remembered something funny I had thought of early that morning, during that time when I was falling asleep and pretty much everything I think of is funny.  I decided to make it a reality—to spend a measly ten bucks on a domain name that probably no one would want and which is probably too long to remember.  But it made me laugh—really really hard.

The next day, I unexpectedly found myself unemployed.  And I say “unexpectedly” to let you know that, although in some ways I was quite prepared for it, it was still a bit of a surprise.  I also say that to let you fully appreciate the irony in me buying a website entitled www.incaseyouhadntnoticedweareinaneconomiccrisishere.com on the eve of me becoming unemployed because of said economic crisis.  You should also probably appreciate the irony in the fact that that $10 probably could feed me and my cats for three or four whole days (now you are probably appreciating the irony that children in Africa can survive on a tenth as much—but that’s the subject for another blog.).

So, I’m here, I’m jobless, and I’m planning on telling you all about it.  I can’t promise it’s going to be interesting—if I recall correctly, being unemployed usually involves a lot of printing your resume and sending e-mails and watching Ellen and playing video games—and I can’t promise that I will be able to keep it up forever (after all, being unemployed usually ends in, well, employment).  I can’t even promise that what I am going to write will be in any way related to unemployment, or that it’s going to be so insightful and socially and politically charged that Barack Obama makes me his Unemployment Czar (though I am still in the running for Mario Kart Czar).  I do promise to at least write something daily, though, even if it’s just a funny story about something that I said at lunch.

…Not that I don’t have enough time on my hands to come up with something more creative than that.