Aloha -

It's increasingly evident to me that I do not wish to continue to live in three separate places in a vagabond fashion. I rent a room in San Francisco that I like and the house is owned by a slumlord that does the minimum to keep it up. I hate that part of it, the dirtiness, unkemptness, dark and sad. The plus side is that I park in tohe garage and don't drive the whole week. Yet the place is not mine.

Tonight I drove to my family home on Seaview Ridge. Such a sense of homecoming and peace. Yet I walk in the door and the toilet has a slow leak for a long time o to the floor and the walls are wet from soaking up the (clean) water. So now I have a major reconstruction / remodel on my hands.

Other weekends I must sometimes spend in Sebastopol. So am at neither place I call my own. I really want One Place, a place of ones own as Virginia Wolf wrote.

To to reconcile this separate and disparate state of affairs? Buy a place in San Francisco? Yet my application to Tripler Army Hospital is still extant. My application to the CDC's polio eradication program is going in next week and those are three to four month contracts. I work Monday with the VA's human resources to consider a TDY assignment with the ultimate goal of joining the epidemiology intelligence service - the 'disease hunters'.

David

For now though I am faced with more mundane matters!