So those of you who have read me for a long time know well of R, my former roommate and close...

So those of you who have read me for a long time know well of R, my former roommate and close friend, my closest friend in Chicago, the epic bluesman.

News of R: he’s moving to California!

Mum is aghast, as there’s not a huge blues scene in California, and she thinks there’s a girl involved; there may be one tangentially involved (his super-abusive ex who he had to get a court action against) but I think really he’s just burned out on his current job and looking for something where he can be his own boss.

I can’t talk a lot about WHY he’s moving to California, but if the business he’s going into takes off, it’ll be good for him. At any rate the reward will be commensurate with the current risk of investing in it, and if he fails, well, R always manages to find a place to land safely. And it’s legal, which is more than can be said for some of his previous employment.

I’ll miss him, of course, but we’ve always been what he calls “ideas friends” – we chatter back and forth via text and rarely see each other in person.
But it definitely is a change, and I’m still working out how to process it.

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So to recap today:

Woke up just barely too sick to run

Scheduled job interview with prestigious east coast institution tomorrow

Best friend in Chicago is moving out of state tomorrow

Almost got called to be a bone marrow donor (false alarm)

Currently running a fever of 100.1

More has happened to me today than usually happens to me in a month. It’s not even all bad or all good, I’m not sure how to process any of it, it just all happened at once and will continue to happen for like, another fifteen hours.

All I need now is for the condo I want to drop its price by twenty grand tomorrow. Go on, universe, you know I can take it. BRING IT. 

(Famous last words.)

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Welp

I was prepared not to take that job interview too seriously because I like where I work and I have yet to find somewhere that pays better. Turns out this job would come with an automatic $7K+ pay raise, which for me is Significant Money, and they named the amount right up front, like BAM, here is our respect for you, let’s not waste anyone’s time. 

SO I guess if I make it past the next interview stage I’m booking myself a trip out to the east coast. 

Everything continues to happen all at once, updates as events warrant. 

I’m still running a fever so I’m gonna like…blow my nose and lie down and listen to podcasts for a while. 

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