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Well, we won. In a technical sense, we didn't win, but the verdict against us was so small (considering what was at stake) that it counts as a win. I try to explain this, and everyone tells me just to call it a win, out team is jubilant, and probably in the process of getting drunk. I'm pleased, but in a curiously quiet way - I guess I'm just glad that everything is over and put to rest.
In other news, I'm still grading, and I finished my Pension and Other Benefits course, just about scraping by with an A (I think, based on my scores, I haven't got official confirmation yet. And the gastroenterologist has confirmed that I do not have cancer or hepatitis, although I am high risk for the former (based on genetics) and he wants me to get immunized for the latter, with a few ongoing blood tests and no alcohol to make sure my liver is healthy.
Since it ended, it's been a white time for me - I've avoided making too many commitments, although I am contemplating many. I need three more courses for my Financial Planning Certificate, and I'm thinking of taking two at once. If things remain slow at work, I may also take on some pro bono work. I haven't started up dance or fighting or training again, although I need to - and I have to get to some applications as well, now that I have no excuse not to. Oh, and I've planned practically every weekend though Christmas already, but that's par for the course, with me -it's Faire season, after all, and I have parents visiting, etc.
Speaking of parents, my father did visit, we did get everything moved (not without some exhaustion and despair on my part, as I was post trial and suffering from a bad cold). I turned in my keys yesterday morning with a clean inventory, and I hope to see most of my security deposit soon. We also discussed difficult issues like my plans for the future, and I'll have to discuss this further with my mother when she visits. But, I do have a plan, little changed by recent events, and I think I know where I want to go next, and what I'll do if some things work, but other things don't. I do my best to anticipate as many outcomes as possible.
In the meantime, I have several books I have bought but haven't read, a number of friends I want to catch up with, whether by letter, telephone or in person, and still more thinking to do about those larger questions in life. I sometimes wonder if I make my life too difficult by expecting too much, pushing myself too hard, by being unwilling or unable just to do nothing and enjoy it. (I can do nothing, but I find it frustrating and unsatisfying, a failure of sorts.) As I was, once long ago, I find that I am often content, but rarely happy - then again, I am rarely unhappy. Anyway, there it is.
In other news, I'm still grading, and I finished my Pension and Other Benefits course, just about scraping by with an A (I think, based on my scores, I haven't got official confirmation yet. And the gastroenterologist has confirmed that I do not have cancer or hepatitis, although I am high risk for the former (based on genetics) and he wants me to get immunized for the latter, with a few ongoing blood tests and no alcohol to make sure my liver is healthy.
Since it ended, it's been a white time for me - I've avoided making too many commitments, although I am contemplating many. I need three more courses for my Financial Planning Certificate, and I'm thinking of taking two at once. If things remain slow at work, I may also take on some pro bono work. I haven't started up dance or fighting or training again, although I need to - and I have to get to some applications as well, now that I have no excuse not to. Oh, and I've planned practically every weekend though Christmas already, but that's par for the course, with me -it's Faire season, after all, and I have parents visiting, etc.
Speaking of parents, my father did visit, we did get everything moved (not without some exhaustion and despair on my part, as I was post trial and suffering from a bad cold). I turned in my keys yesterday morning with a clean inventory, and I hope to see most of my security deposit soon. We also discussed difficult issues like my plans for the future, and I'll have to discuss this further with my mother when she visits. But, I do have a plan, little changed by recent events, and I think I know where I want to go next, and what I'll do if some things work, but other things don't. I do my best to anticipate as many outcomes as possible.
In the meantime, I have several books I have bought but haven't read, a number of friends I want to catch up with, whether by letter, telephone or in person, and still more thinking to do about those larger questions in life. I sometimes wonder if I make my life too difficult by expecting too much, pushing myself too hard, by being unwilling or unable just to do nothing and enjoy it. (I can do nothing, but I find it frustrating and unsatisfying, a failure of sorts.) As I was, once long ago, I find that I am often content, but rarely happy - then again, I am rarely unhappy. Anyway, there it is.
