Today is the first day of my funemployment.

So far this is feeling like an extended holiday break, but at some point the realization is going to hit me that I no longer work, the paychecks stop coming in, the crappy insurance is gone, the job-hunting gets me down, and I'll never have another job where I just load computers unsupervised day in and day out again.

But I've said my piece about the whole thing. Downsizing's a reasonable excuse these days, I don't want to burn any bridges or dwell negatively on it.

So let me list some of the positive things I can take from not working:
-I can sleep in until noon.
-I don't have to eat out of a paper bag.
-I can play video games for 8 hours straight like the old days.
-I don't have to log in 200 times a day.
-Unemployment benefits!
-I don't have to wear those damn biz-cas shirts.
-I can try to grow a beard every week, only to shave it off when I remember I can't grow a decent beard.
-I don't have to search for a badge that keeps falling off its clip.
-I don't have to go back to being a drifter like in the early 2000s.
-I won't end the day with cut up hands and covered in dust that smells like coffee and burnt PC parts.
-The government gives me free cheese.
-I'll finally have time to avoid working on my short stories and not practice digital airbrushing without something out of my hands taking up my free time.
-I do not have to stare at my alarm clock at 6AM with mindless unbridled hate.
-My family wont ask me to troubleshoot for them and their friends because 'James works in IT and he knows everything'.
-I can start drinking at noon again.
-I can loudly listen to Vixen and nobody who doesn't pay me rent can complain.
-I don't have to wear my long hair up in a futile attempt to not look like a hippy.
-I can skip lunch.
-My alarm clock can shut the hell up because I am done with his smug bullshit.
-I'll finally understand the lyrics to 'Born in the USA'.
-The government will not give me free cheese.
-I can go to doctor or dentist without pretending I wont be picking up most of the tab anyway.

See, and so far those are being mostly optimistic. As for me, it's already 1 in the afternoon; I'm gonna go pour some craisins onto a bowl of dried honey bunches of oats and sit on the couch. Maybe one my readers (or both of them) can comment with a few more ideas.