THE YEAR OF JOE?????

In a previous encarnation, I had written that 2006 was going to be a banner year. I was going to put the pieces together and good things were going to happen and everything I was working on would start showing some fruit. Yes, I was looking for good fruit from my labors. WELL, my dear friends, let me tell you a story. I was at a job fair yesterday. Actually, I was more like whoreing myself to a bunch of recruiters who probably won't hire me because I am tooooo educated. Anyhoo, I will go anywhere within a 3 hour travel to Chicagoland. The city of Danville had a booth, and I figured what the hell! I have friends in Champaign. I can live in a middle town there quite comfortably. I can even go into Indiana easily if I wanted to torture myself!!!! So, I sat down. She liked the fact I went to the University of Illinois. We got on the subject of the Marching Illini. She told me her mother was in the hospital cheering the basketball team on in the tournament. "They are her boys," she said. I said, "Yes, but I'm concerned." I had a right to be. The bastards up and lost yesterday to Washington to not advance to the sweet sixteen... Anyway, she starts looking at my resume. "Oh, I could use you anywhere," she said. And, she can. And, we begin the process of chit chat that would have led to me wowing her with my great abilities. AND, then her phone rings. "I have to take this," she said. Within seconds, "I have to go. My mother....".... "I'm sorry," I said. "She's in God's hands," said the lady. With that, she up and left. What am I supposed to make of that? What is the message when the recruiter gets a phone call annoucing that her mother had died of a heart attack..... To you Danville Recruiter, my sympathies... To my life? What the fuck!?!?! YEAR OF JOE, my ass.