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crossroads Saturday January 15

utah phillips noted that things don't just happen in a year, or in a decade, and that we merely package time as a convenience. i agree with that, but after a full year where things didn't necessarily turn out too well, i think that my life is finally coming around.

monika has officially accepted the position in campus development, and i had a meeting/interview (and that is what they termed it, slash and all) last thursday to act as visiting auditorium manager while an official search is conducted. there would be a lot of responsibility in her job; i would manage the staff (people who are now my co-workers), run events, and plan events with student groups and academic departments. i will find out early next week what they've decided to do. it is very likely that i will be fully employed with benefits, and i will try to save a lot of money this spring.

oh, heck. let's just do the laundry list of items that indicate mark's life is on the upswing:

• there is a high potentiality that i will be fully employed in a month.
• i walked back into espresso today and began to feel like i owned it again. lost my turf for a little while; starting to regain ground.
• wilco's coming to foellinger again, and that's monika's last event. i'm glad she's running it, though, because that will leave me free to, uhm, watch it.
• now i have two merry ann's t-shirts. the first one i will keep, the second one goes to justin when it's a little more worn out.
• justin is no longer in iraq*, and i will see justin on february 5th.
• nate and ashley. need i say more. apparently everyone who wants a speech gets one!
• i mailed out another japan program application. this one costs money rather than paying it, but i need options, people. if JET fell through, i'm going hook-or-crook.
• i have a great group of friends down here now. surprised i never hung out with those kids before. monika said that if i get the new job, i will need to curtail some of my activities with these kids, and i know she's right. sad day. but sacrifice is the key to success, and i know that.
• i just moved in with a bigger food and drink snob than myself: plinko. i just introduced him to the above-mentioned friends. i was happy that everyone liked each other and got along.
• yerba mahte. end of story.

* justin said to me a week or so ago, "i'm leaving iraq in a week". i don't know where he is exactly, or if he is in roscoe.