(Thanks to everyone for the condolences on the loss of Rosco.  He was, as they say, a Good Egg.)


On the career side of things, last week I passed the Foreign Service Oral Assessment.  My fellow passers included two Pickering Fellows, a Rangel Fellow, a recent Harvard BA, and a University of Chicago MBA.  I think I was the only one to pass all three sections of the test. I am now the proud possessor of a Conditional Offer of Employment.

So now I wait while the Diplomatic Security Service does their thing and collects as many facts as they can about my past.  Simultaneously, I get a rather complete physical evaluation by the Medical Division.  Then everyone submits their findings to a Final Suitability Review Panel, which decides whether or not to issue me a Class One (worldwide availability) medical clearance and a Top Secret security clearance.  Ver exciting.

Assuming that all goes according to plan, I then go to training at the Foreign Service Institute, and from there to...? Someplace Special, I'm sure.

Most important of all, I am getting close to 100,000 blog views here on teh Spaze.  So, there's that.

Love to y'all.

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