Timelies all!

We may have a place for preschool for Mr. S in the fall. A space has come available for Sept. 1 in one of the on-campus childcare centers where I work. We need to find out child:teacher ratio, and how equipped they are to deal with "special needs" kids.(On the upside, they've worked with the county PEP program to have someone on site.) We have to make a decision by Monday morning.

I hope that works out, Sheryl, sounds like it would be convenient for you.

So I'm looking at things to do in Atlanta, because I'll be there a couple days next week (on my way to visit my family in South Carolina), and I found out there's a museum at the CDC, and I'm totally going to go, but then on the website I found out they have a "Disease Detective" summer camp and man, I wish I could've gone to that as a high schooler! ...I'm a huge dork.

That sounds fun, though!

So I'm in the middle of hiring someone and have three internal candidates (from outside my department). I've had them all do a writing exercise and now I'm trying to rank them (blindly) and they are all pretty good! This is not helping me pick my finalists at all. Which is actually fine, really, since I basically know who I want to hire. I guess it's good that none of the exercises are terrible!

I'm going back for a second interview for the 'driver' position at the assisted living. (Maybe I'll suggest that they advertise it as Transportation Coordinator in future up-market ads. Or at least get a title upgrade for myself, if I get the job.)

Good luck, Theo!

Good luck, Theo!

Good luck Theo and Dana and everyone having job issues!

As people may have seen on FB, I was in B'more and I've made the decision to move there hopefully in the next 9-12 months (barring anything bad happening - more on that later).

Ideally I will be able to shift over to a role with my current company and work remotely. I should be having conversations with my boss and his boss in the next 2-3 weeks.

In 2 weeks, I am having a garage sale with a friend who just moved and am super motivated right now, so I am planning on going room by room and culling about 1/3 of my stuff including furniture.

Now the hard part, mac is not rising to the occasion of becoming independent and making good choices. Almost 100% sure that he no longer has a job. He had someone with a pet over to the house while I was gone. He also did not clean any dishes for the week and left food out and open in his room. He has stopped communicating with me if I ask him anything, taking 12+ hours at least to answer even yes/no questions as basic as "are you ok?" I do not know where he is day to day and never know when he will be coming or going fro. The house. So today I sent a text to him explaining that this was not how I would continue to live my life and that he will need to be out of the house in 5 weeks.

I expect August to be an emotional minefield, but this too shall pass.