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Well, I had a career highlight and a career low yesterday.  I didn’t get the job I was vying for, and it was a real disapointment. So I’m staying doing advertising for a realtor.  But it’s a bit of an ego blow.  One month, I have an assistant.  The next month, I am an assistant.  I think to myself in a whirl of self pity and identity woes: Why did I get a Master’s degree?  To photocopy for someone?

Not that being an assistant isn’t a valuable profession – but it’s not my career aspiration.  If the kids were here, it would be easier to swallow my loss of professional identity, since my previous title would be replaced by “Mother.”  BUT, for now, this will do.  And it is nice being able to be honest about the kids coming.

On a totally different note, I GOT TO INTERVIEW STEPHEN LEWIS YESTERDAY for a magazine article I’m writing.  Thank you so much, my friend L, who got me in.  Talk about a career highlight… and for my first major feature article, too!  Mr. Lewis was very kind on the phone (which I was a little worried about since he was kind of tired and crusty the first time I met him) and answered all my questions wonderfully.  Now I just have to write a killer article and jump start my writing career!

Dazed, confused and wondering where this path is taking me;

Nicky