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[stormdog]

I just got done with my second appointment this week with a temporary staffing service. The person ahead of me was very cute in a timid-geeky sort of way. I was tempted to try to find out whether he was fen by mentioning details of my last job in our sporadic excahnges of speech. Anyway, though the first agency didn't have any openings right now, the second one provided somewhat more concrete assurances. There may be a machine operator job available. It's something like 20 miles away though, and would probably be seven days a week. Not an ideal situation, but I'll see what Andrea thinks.

Doing that sort of light industrial work isn't exactly what I'd planned on when moving out here. On the other hand, after realizing that I can't apply for apprenticeship right now, I didn't really have any solid plans for employment. I'm pretty willing to deal with whatever I need to do, just so I can accumulate a halfway respectable balance in my account (oh yeah, still need to creat a checking account) and then deal with my bill from Parkside. Still a few steps to go through on my way toward ideal (or, at least, mostly enjoyable) employment, but I'm getting there. Slowly.

So I'm in a library in Sterling Heights, the soothing sound of rain on the roof muffling the keystrokes I'm making as I type up another little chunk of my life on a little Dell system in the lobby. The apartment is still without internet access. Hopefully that situation will change on Monday of next week, although with the confusiong about DSL providers in this area, I'll belive it when I see it.

How am I doing? Not too badly. My beloved and I have our apartment. Though it is, at the moment, packed nearly to capacity with boxes and bags that Darren (that would be my dear one's husband for those unfamiliar with the situation. Long and interesting story) keeps hauling over from their old house. I hope he's almost done. Much more of this and you may here of a brand new singularity having been created and sucking in a small apartment complex in Warren Michigan.

I've been very happy. I am very happy. There have been times of worry, times of confusion, times of missing my parents and friends, but in the end I have my raccoon, my magic. Talking to my family on the phone has been interesting. I dial them up and I converse with them as though nothing is really that different, but I become more and more aware that things really aren't going to be the same anymore. As wooisme and I drove out to Ann Arbor for a bowling game with some of the local furs, I found myself thinking back to one of the last times I was with the gaming group at Bob's house in Kenosha and how I sat outside talking to Andrea on the phone until my dad called me in for dinner and I sat with my parents and their friends and listened to the game and talked.... For some reason I was really aware that it will be a long time until I can do that again. Perhaps not never, but a long time. I am so happy here. I can miss my loved ones and still be very happy. I think having access to e-mail and Livejournal and chat at home will make things better. I told all of my family they should get AIM or Yahoo or whatever sort of accounts so I can chat with them as well as my other friends while I'm online, but I haven't been able to be online yet...

I may be back in Kenosha for Thanksgiving. Andrea can't make it, as she has to work that Friday, but she asked me about going back by myself. I was wavering on that for a while but, as I gave it some thought while in line today, I decided that it may be what I want to do. I would feel bad not going to the Thanksgiving Day parade here in Detroit with Andrea and her family (it seems I get to meet her mother before too long by the way, but it would be really good to see people back there again. And we can certainly both be back in Kenosha for Christmas, and probably earlier as well. We're still planning on Furfest in November...

I'm trying to think of any other interesting goings-on to relate. I have another journal entry typed up on my maching back home, but I don't have it to paste in here. Maybe once we have a connection I'll backdate it and post it. At least now you all know I'm still alive out here.

I'm going to start paging through some job sites now, I think. 'Till next time.

*hugs hugs*