Sara and I are settled with a friend of my mom's (she's awesome, and another teacher at the Friends School here). It's weird, because I don't know her very well at all, but she's lovely and has three cats (Charlie, Iris, and June) and we have our own rooms and bathroom. It's going to be a good place to regroup.

Ben is with his best friend here in town (another awesome family) and Stephen and Jake are, unfortunately, back in Fulton for the time being. I'm looking for a job and looking into some other counseling-shaped things and starting to think about the future, which is, frankly, terrifying right now. Big changes. Not sure which might be for the best, unexpectedly. Thank you for asking!

(OTOH, I actually friended shrift on FB because she had a pink gingham avatar, but had no idea at all who she was and finally had to ask Hec who the hell I'd friended. However, it's an established fact that shrift's birth name is in no way her real name except by accident of birth and legal identity, and that for all actual purposes of selfhood she is shrift.)

Ha ha, yeah. Even Dana calls me shrift. (If anyone can't make the connection, the most recent picture I posted was of beer.) I answer to both, although when I'm with fannish people, I answer more readily to shrift.

I tend to associate people with whatever name I first know them by (kind of like the first role I saw an actor in), so it's a mix of real names and fannish names.

Lots of get settled~, get the job~ma to you and the family, Amy. That's a tough row to hoe.

I've been thinking about you, but then there was that other stuff.

I certainly understand how thinking about the future can be terrifying. I find thinking about mine terrifying.

I certainly understand how thinking about the future can be terrifying.

For me, it's the first time thinking about doing it on my own. And if that's something I actually might want. Terrifying is an understatement.

We can be terrified together?

Amy, forgive me for asking, but -- are things not good with Stephen?

t edit I'm sorry to be intrusive. I wasn't asking out of bystander curiosity, but because I care about you and want to support you the best way possible.

I hope you can figure something out, Amy. The future is always unknown and scary, but sometimes it is even moreso. I'm glad you have a good place to be for now.

I always think of it as "A sky"

This is how I think of it.

Ha ha, yeah. Even Dana calls me shrift. (If anyone can't make the connection, the most recent picture I posted was of beer.) I answer to both, although when I'm with fannish people, I answer more readily to shrift.

I will always remember your legal name, because it weirds me out. It sounds like a character name.

Off topic. I am trying to decide whether to keep doing karate.

Pros: exercise, scheduled, like the teacher, self defense

Cons: kinda far away, no class for beginners, money.

I have already decide the budget needs a once over, so I am going through it. Already cancelled on thing which was a monthly charge. The dunkin budget is what I must cut next. Must start back with coffee at work. That will no joke cover the cost of karate.