College Town USA (Article)

I live in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh.  In Oakland are several universities: Carnegie Mellon, Carlow, Catham and the University of Pittsburgh which I graduated from in 2006 with an MFA in writing.

There are other universities in the city, too: Duquesne University, Robert Morris University and Point Park University.    There are several campuses of the Community College of Allegheny County in the city, too.  Pittsburgh is a college town.  That’s why there are so many college students in my flash fiction.

My Life

Sometime yesterday afternoon my gout was nearly gone.  I had no pain and I could walk normal.  So today I went to computer school.  I checked my gmail and yahoo mail.  No job offers.  Wednesday there’s a jobfair at Mellon Arena downtown.  I’ll go to that.

At school I punched up the latest update of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and found out Congress had rejected the 700 Billion Dollar Bailout.  I was hoping the bill would pass and that maybe the Governor would lift the state hiring freeze so that I would get hired.  No such luck.  My eligibility is only good until April.  I’ll have to take another test and go through the entire process all over again.

I was lucky enough to score 95 the first time. 

Wedesday I’m going to start putting in applications at fastfood restaurants. 

GHH

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