maybe not ANYWHERE is better than here

[derien]

In my continuing hope for a new job I keep a job search agent running on the USAJobs site, trying to turn up things in Portland that would be better than working for the agency I'm in, now. Today it turned up an opening as an Intelligence Research Specialist. Searching for terrorists in Maine.

Mm, I don't think so. That squicks me out.

Comments

[sospan-fach.livejournal.com]

They have terrorists in Maine? o.o What the heck would they do there? Radicalise the lobsters into home rule and throwing off the tyranny of chefs and boiling water?

(Witness my woeful degree of transatlantic ignorance, and also the flogging to death of the one fact I know about Maine, namely the lobsters...)

O/T, but have you read Anita Shreve's 'Body Surfing'? No reason for bringing that up, except of course that it's set in Maine. (It's quite good.)

Seriously, though, I hope your job search goes well and comes up with something more appealing for you!

[derien.livejournal.com]

(Witness my woeful degree of transatlantic ignorance, and also the flogging to death of the one fact I know about Maine, namely the lobsters...)


Hee! :) Really, most people don't know much else. A few vague facts - "Oh, Stephen King lives there, right?"

Eor had to chime in, "Body surfing here usually means falling in the water and freezing to death."