Rinpoche says we should welcome problems ..

..because through them we work out past karmic issues.  I think maybe I've shaved off the badness of a couple of lifetimes during the past 10 weeks.  Yeah, I fell out of my old job and into a new temp one -- that was supposed to last 3 months and actually lasted 3 weeks.  Then I was hustled by a BUNCH of recruiters, all of whom promised they could get me into another temp job, and all of whom failed to manage that.  I went on one interview in Ohio that a recruiter told me was a slam dunk -- NOT.  Then I got hustled by a surgeon that I know from an internet critical care medicine list, who said "This isn't a guarantee, but it's close enough for government work" on Sunday, and the following Friday said "We've decided not to pursue your application for our position ..." after I made a flying trip to Atlanta.

I gotta learn not to talk about "the Civil War" when I'm below the Mason-Dixon line.

The job that I finally DID get hired for?  I literally said nearly nothing at the interview.

And the thing that's the biggest bummer is that I'm moving 7 1/2 hours south of Deer Park.  I will be closer to an FPMT group, in St. Louis, but I'm giving up the opportunity to profit fully from the teachings at Deer Park this coming spring.  Sigh.

The good news is that I'm volunteering for Liberation Prison Project, another FPMT group, and writing letters to prisoners to encourage their practice of the dharma.  Now I better get my butt in gear and take advantage of my new job (which is 7 days straight of work and then 7 days off) to spend some serious time practicing myself!!!