A late, but heartfelt, "Yay!" for Tim's good lung news.

Hil, I hope tonight's date goes well.

askye, one of the things I do at work is put Coursera courses together (no poetry ones, alas). We get students at all levels, with all kinds of backgrounds. Your perspective on the poetry will be appreciated. I hope you end up finding the course fulfilling. And if you find it doesn't suit you, assuming you're not doing the paid certificate thing, you can always say "to heck with it". I've started dozens of courses just to see how they're constructed and how the content's presented. I think I've finished three.

Steph, such good news about Tim--and I'm glad you guys celebrated appropriately. It's just too awful how hard the lead-up to the good news was. I hope this eases at least some of the tension you've been under for a while.

My first therapy appointment is tomorrow, and while the immediate Code Oh My God What Is Above Red stress has backed off, it's clear that I need to learn some coping skills. I know people don't always click with the first therapist they try, but I'm hoping that might happen here.

I just hope that future appointments won't be so goddamn early.

I hate the idea of having to interview therapists before getting to the work of therapy.

You guys are much more efficient.

I took some Advil and Tylenol and rested a bit, and my ankle is feeling a little better, but I think I'm still going to be working from home today. For the first time in several weeks, I don't have all that much to do -- make slides for the next section of the online course, and answer emails -- so I can work on that from home.

Calli that's really cool.

It's not a certificate class so I won't lose any money from it. I'm trying not to be too intimidated by it.

I'm on a waiting list to get a parking tag for a closer garage. I've been on the waiting list for a year.

When I went to grad school there the parking was crazy, it's a bit better now. There was a 7 year waiting list to get into the old parking garage that was where the music school was located. I was going to be there for 2 years for grad school. I just got a lot of parking tickets.

I work at a good sized university. One of my coworkers use to bike to work, but she recently moved 20 miles away to live with her fiancé, making that difficult. So she went to get a parking permit. Evidently she can't get a permit for a lot under a mile away. And they want to charge her an ungodly amount for it. How does paying for the privilege of coming to work make sense?

Have fun on your date, Hil! That sucks about the parking and work situation; unfortunately it sounds like they aren't taking your needs very seriously.

askye, I hope you enjoy your class!

sj, I'm sorry you feel so bad today. Wish I could figure out, myself, why some days are so bad for no apparent reason.

When I worked at Rutgers, I had to park way far away and walk through construction zones to get to work. At the interview, I was told I would have assigned parking and it was heavily implied that would be in the parking garage next door to my building. But then, they lied to me about a lot of things, including my salary.

That sucks about the parking and work situation; unfortunately it sounds like they aren't taking your needs very seriously.

Well, I haven't really tried to get anything done specifically for accessibility -- to park in the disabled spaces on campus, you need both a state disabled tag and a university disabled tag, but you can't get the university one unless you have the state one, and you can't get the state one without a note from a doctor, and I couldn't get an appointment with the doctor until December, and, well. The distance from the garage to my office is about a five-minute walk on a day when I'm feeling OK, so I'm mostly fine with it, but on days when I'm hurting, it feels like a lot.