And the good news continues!

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I have an interview with the Winchester Mystery House tomorrow at 1500. While I am sort of hesitant at going back to a lob I held 13 years ago, it is a place to start over and earn some money while I keep looking for better work...

"Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Winchester Mystery House! The Winchester House is California historical landmark number 868. My name is Doug, and I'll be your guide through this beautiful but bizarre 160 room Victorian mansion.."

Yup. Still got it!

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If you can still do the work, and you're good at it, what's the problem?

Okay, that's a little too glib, but I'm trying to be reassuring. Maybe it's the difference of perspective that comes with acute awareness of one's mortality, but I have less of a problem "marking time"; I've had the same job for the past 9 years now, and spent almost all of them living in the same quad near campus, even though I'm a graduate. I moved out only because I had to take care of my father, and two years later, when he needed to move to a facility where he could get more care, I was able to move right back into the same complex (different unit, though). At the time, the symmetry was pleasing.

The first month or two that I was back, I felt the lack of things I'd become accustomed to - more room, privacy - acutely. But to hold onto those things would have required making changes and sacrifices in other parts of my life (like leaving a job I enjoy, mostly). So instead I have a place that's big enough, a job that pays enough, and the leftover time and money to pursue my interests.

I ramble. Maybe I should just tell you not to put too much meaning on taking what you can get now to sustain you while you consider and perhaps pursue other options. "'Perfect' is the enemy of 'good enough'."