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No nibbles on my job applications yet. I hope I haven’t been deluding myself; I was convinced that this course was a quick way to get back into the workplace. It’s only been ten days since I passed the certification though, so I refuse to angst just yet.

I’ll save that for next week.

I played with the torch a little more today. A year ago I purchased a mixed lot of colored rods, and while I supplemented them over the Christmas holidays when I was making my Christmas tree beads, I’ve been working my way through the colors I like. I’m pretty much down to the colors I’m not crazy about now, and it’s forcing me to get a little creative. I’ve been playing with two rods in particular, one called “Mermaid” which is a deep blue-green, and one called “Celedan”, which looked like a lighter version of “Mermaid” when before it was fired. I should have taken my cue from the name: “Celedan” fired to a white/green with bluish overtones. It still complements the “Mermaid” beads I made nicely, but didn’t’ come out as expected. I’ll need to take some more pictures and post them one of these days.

I’m also going to have to figure out what I’m doing with a lot of these beads. I need to either now learn some advance jewelry techniques so I can make them into something, find a way to sell them “as is”, or dump them on unsuspecting friends and relations as gifts.

In other news, things are now pretty much finalized for my hernia surgery on June 2nd. One of the immunosuppressants I’m on now delays healing, the docs are switching me back to the immunosuppressant I used to be on before I was diagnosed with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. I’ll be on the old medication for about six weeks total. It makes me a little nervous, since the last time they fooled with my meds I ended up with a rejection incident, but they’re putting me on a fairly whopping dose of the old medication so there should be no problems.

As for the tiny scaly lesions on my upper lip, the derm doctor wants to take a wait and see for the time being. Actually, he offered to freeze them off, but I declined at the moment since I don’t want some honking big sore on my lip if I get an interview. He laughed when I said that, and then talked to me a bit about what kind of job I’d be looking for. He promised to ask around with the people he knows at Big City Hospital, and then took the extra time to assure me he meant it and wasn’t just giving me polite lip service. Have I mentioned I really like my dermatologist?

I’d pulled way back from my duties at the cat shelter while I was taking the pharmacy tech course, an am now trying to take up some of that slack again. I’m doing twice-weekly vet checks again there, and starting to socialize a bit again. One of the volunteers I particularly like and I are going to a local tea room tomorrow to play catch up. While I’m looking forward to seeing her again (it’s been nearly two months) I’ll admit I also want to hit her up about jobs at her workplace (she’s a nurse, in charge of education at a chain of local dialysis clinics). I feel a little guilty, since I went out of my way to get in touch with her before catching up with most of the other volunteers, but only a little. That’s what desperation does to a person.

My birthday is coming up next month. If anybody was wondering what to get me, I want one of these: R2D2 Trash Bin