Advice for Day 99: Unemployment is a state of mind

My 100 days are up. I'm officially living in that scary world of no health insurance with only the faint Obama-colored glimmer of hope for universal health care in my future.

But honestly my lack of health insurance isn't what is freaking me out. It is my lack of life insurance; lack of foresight about what I want my life to look like.

100 days ago i told myself i just needed a gulp of faith to wash away the shiver of fear. That gulp of faith fueled my way to Chicago but I'm afraid, I'm not sure if I have enough of the magic confidence elixir left to get me through actually living a life in Chicago.

But then again i remember my journalism yoda telling me to just fake confidence like it's my job, because right now it is. Unemployment is really just a state of mind that only influences the real world if you let it.

So my red hair may be fading, my confidence a little weak but my hair still glows in the red and a stiff drink of faith is lined up at the bar around the corner.

To see me tackle unemployment in the "big city," check out my new blog at www.bigchitownliving.blogspot.com.