Personal Update: A meditation on warts?

What better way to start than with my weekly horoscope:
Weekly Horoscope
Lewis Thomas was a physician who wrote elegantly about biology in books like The Lives of a Cell. I want to bring your attention to his meditation on warts. "Nothing in the body has so much the look of toughness and permanence as a wart," he wrote. And yet "they can be made to go away by something that can only be called thinking . . . Warts can be ordered off the skin by hypnotic suggestion." (tinyurl.com/3clzc5) Thomas regarded this phenomenon as "absolutely astonishing, more of a surprise than cloning or recombinant DNA." According to my astrological reckoning, Cancerian, you currently have a comparable marvel at your disposal. Using the power of your mind, you can shrink, dissolve, or banish a wart-like vexation.

Man I really can't get enough of this guy. I wonder what kind of drugs he must be taking.

Job Application Update
This past week I applied for 4 jobs and heard back from one more. One was in DC, one was in LA, and the other two were New York based.

I heard back from the government job* by means of a letter telling me when to expect to hear back. That's what I love about the government: full disclosure. I know they will take a month to go through applications and move people to the next level. Every hears back when they've found someone. Yet another way to make me feel less like a insignificant resume in a pile of applications....love it.

Goal for the Next Week
Two more applications, one homemade dinner and a successful first trip to New Orleans for JazzFest! I wonder if Billy Joel is gonna rock as much as I think he will....