faulker009

In the Ballad of a Thin Man, the great poet from Minnesota, Robert Zimmerman said that “something is happening here, but you don’t know what it is.” I know he wasn’t talking about me, but those words describe how I’m feeling at the moment. Not in a bad way either. Since joining the unemployed fraternity more than 18 months ago, I’ve experienced more ups and downs than the New York Stock Exchange. I can't really pinpoint why I’m feeling bullish at the moment other than to say, I'm feeling some kind of buzz and thankfully it’s not my vibrating cell phone. It could be because in the last few days, I have spoken with a couple of former colleagues about working on some new projects with them. But that’s really nothing new. Talk is something we have done a lot of in the last year. Maybe what makes this different is that these new talks seem to have had a lot more to them than just, “wouldn’t it be cool if _____.” This time, we’ve put our thoughts on paper. This time, we’ve deve...