Temporary work

I'm still in a state of waiting on a number of opportunities. As a quick summary, I'm waiting on

-One final interview
-One post-testing-but-maybe-not-"final" interview
-One response from an interview
-Two first interviews
-Four responses to directed-strike style job applications that I sent in last week or the week before (I have no reason to believe that these four companies will ever get back to me beyond by own belief that I'm a very good fit and I wrote really good cover letters).

To alleviate the financial stress I'm feeling due to unemployment, I've started looking at temporary technical work, which I'd never really given much thought to. I've posted ads on a few sites as a tutor/freelance programmer. It felt really good to do that, and I realized that if I were getting money in any fashion right now it would really change the mood of the times.

So far, nothing has come of these ads, but I have found possible temporary work as a scientific paper editor for a Japanese company and a part-time programmer for a lab at Northwestern. I interviewed for the programming position today and did pretty well. The Japanese paper-editing people are supposed to send me a sample to edit soon.