Full Time - Day 3

Walked to the library in a cold rain. 

Studied chess for six hours and then set up a phone interview for part time work.  I will take the call tomorrow at 11:00am, so if I do go to the library it will be in the afternoon.

Chess material studied :

Read First Steps : Caro Kann (Martin) -

g14 Ivanov/Vladimirov; g15 Gheorghiu/Hort;

subgame - Gligoric/Petriosian (J)

Read How to Learn From Your Defeats (Karpov)

Geller/Karpov 1976; Karpov/Geller 1981(J)

Read Chess Scandals (Edmondson) -

g22 - French (J)

Full Time - Day 2

Today the sky is white, flecked with a bit of gray.  I walked in the cold rain to Harold Washington Library and studied chess for five hours.

Read First Steps : Caro Kann (Martin) -

g12 Karjakin/Mamedyarov; g13 Yifan/Rapport (J)

Chessbomb Random - (J)

GRENKE Chess Classic 2019 round 09

Caruana, Fabiano (USA) - Aronian, Levon (ARM)

Read Chess Scandals (Edmondson) - g21 QGD (J)

It's Your Move, 8-9 (J)

Full Time - Day 1

I will write a daily entry while searching for work. 

I have spent time in warehouses, factories, and offices. I work for years and then quit.

I quit my office job at the Art Institute of Chicago in September, 2018. 

I lived in SE Asia for sixteen weeks from November, 2018 - March, 2019. 

Presently I am living in downtown Chicago with a woman. 

Today I will go to the Harold Washington Library to study the chess reference books...

...This is what I studied while at the library :

Read First Steps : Caro Kann (Martin) -

g9 Ehlvest/Timman; g10 Lenic/Ragger g11 Q/K (J)

Chessbomb Random - (J)

GRENKE Chess Classic 2019 round 08

Svidler, Peter (RUS) - Carlsen, Magnus (NOR)

Read Chess Scandals (Edmondson) -

g20 Caro-Kann (J)

Read How to Learn From Your Defeats (Karpov)

Karpov/Torre 1976; Torre/Karpov 1977(J)

Analyze M's rd's 1-4, B Wright Open (J)

Four Hours

 Walking Home, Kinzie Street

My job at Upton's lasted four hours, and then I resigned.

Of Human Bondage

"Philip was no longer interested in art; it seemed to him that he was able to enjoy beauty with greater force than when he was a boy; but art appeared to him unimportant. He was occupied with the forming of a pattern out of the manifold chaos of life, and the materials with which he worked seemed to make preoccupation with pigments and words very trivial"  - Of Human Bondage

I recently checked out a number of books from Harold Washington Library. Bukowski, Maugham, Steinbeck, Hesse. 

I finished reading Post Office by Bukowski.

I am almost finished with Of Human Bondage. 

Tomorrow I return to the space and time of others. 

Working and Walking

I begin working at Upton's on Monday.

I timed the walking route this morning, sixty three minutes at moderate pace.

I walked on Grand and Hubbard most of the way. When passing a long railway overpass I took in the numerous wall murals.

Transition

Last week I visited the Harold Washington Library to browse the literature section and to begin looking for work. 

I applied to four places and was contacted by Upton's Naturals. I talked to a woman and she asked me to interview with the co-owner later in the afternoon. 

I showered and walked three miles to west Grand Ave, interviewed, and walked home in the rain. The woman wanted my references and the following day I was offered the position, which I accepted. 

I begin working on April 15th.