Hoop Jumping

Hello Everyone:

I feel a little better today.  My hip is still sore and I have to be careful about putting any weight on it.  I should be fine by the weekend, I hope.  So what's life like without mum?  Very quiet and less drama-filled.  Honestly, I'm enjoying it.  I'm not in any rush to let another person share my space, unless it's the Brit BF.  I already decided that a few years ago.  Mum was never happy with because he's not Jewish and Afro-English.  You know what I don't care, never did.  I just know that he is the one for me.  One thing I absolutely don't miss is the revolving door of people.  It was too much and I was getting very little done for myself because I spent so much time dealing with people who didn't live with me.  This brings up the question, now what?  I'm still trying to figure that one out.  In the meantime a good opportunity landed in my inbox for a job with the state government in the Bay Area.  I'm not too worried about getting hired immediately because it's with the state Department of Transportation and any government job takes forever and a day.  Like any government job, it involves a certain amount of hoop jumping that just has to be gotten through.  I think the hoop jumping is part of the testing process: "Let's see who's a serious candidate by making them fill out endless form."  I'm game.  It beats filling out forms for the Department of Motor Vehicles or purgatory.  Whatever, it's something I'm doing for myself.