Stopping the spiral

I’m having one of those periods of time in my life where a lot of things aren’t going as planned for awhile, and I’m having to rethink almost my entire life plan, and it’s hard not to just keep spiraling deeper and deeper down. Occasionally there are things that knock me back up the spiral a bit, like BarCamp this past weekend, but then something else happens to knock me back down.

So I’m working on trying to at least stop the spiral before I hit bottom. Hopefully I can even spiral back up a little bit, but right now I’m working on things at least not getting any worse. I need a second job; a big part of the spiral right now is unexpected bills and expenses that are draining me financially and therefore also draining me mentally and emotionally. The entrepreneurial spirit of many of my BarCamp Philly friends is infectious; I’m working on looking for a job or clients to start freelancing. I’m going to start searching a bunch of sites for projects or potential clients, and update either a page here on my blog or on my other site, melissathiessen.com, as a portfolio/resume type thing.

I can do this. I can stop my life from spiraling down further. And then work on pulling myself back up.

P.S. I missed yesterday’s entry for NanoBloPoMo due to working on a departmental presentation today. This is entry 1 of 2 today to make up for that.