College of the Desert had three English Department job openings several weeks ago. I applied once again and, once again, I was rejected with the neutral phrase, "We cannot offer you an interview at this time." They once more suggested that I keep checking with their site for additional openings.
I am not certain anything would change when I suspect that my age is what they really believe bars me from their consideration. I feel I am wasting my time and efforts to keep applying. Filling out their many online forms takes so much time.
While I am slowly recovering from my broken, this latest rejection was just one more disappointment.
So, I continue to watch M*A*S*H episodes, like cuddling with a favorite and familiar stuffed animal as a child. Once BJ and Col. Potter so easily settled in, and then Winchester replaced Burns, the series truly soared for me. Except that Radar did not appear in several episodes without explanation until Season 7 I M*A*S*H actors who are still alive.
In a Christmas episode, at the end, the camera poignantly panned across Stiers, Morgan, Burghoff, Christopher, and Swit, certainly not knowing that in November of 2025, those actors would be gone.
Of course, their fates remind me of my own mortality. Especially with my recovering hand and wrist.
I feel broken. Finding it difficult to see myself back to the person I once was, fully functioning except for the normal frailties of age.
