Cupid Draw Back Your Bow

Work has been insufferable this week.
There is no good reason for my weekly To Do list to not be To Done, save for the great heaping pile of microaggressions mixed in with a general Post-Vacation Brain Cloud.

And speaking of vacation, let's talk about that briefly:

It was exactly what I needed.

I needed to swim in warm ocean water and explore tidal pools and eat way too much Gallo Pinto and sleep late and drink fruity drinks with tiny paper umbrellas. I just...needed that.
Bottom line and financial net worth be damned. I needed that.

So now I'm back with a slightly greater sense of purpose.
Oh don't get me wrong, I still feel anxious to the nth degree about how adulthood is NOTHING like it said on the tin, but at least instead of standing still and worrying...I'm moving somewhere and worrying.

Well "moving somewhere" might be a bit of a misnomer. I've signed on to stay at the New Place for another year. And yes, it'll be the New Place until such time as I've lived there longer than the Old Place. I don't foresee that happening, but seeing as I didn't foresee it happening last time...I really shouldn't comment further.

With the staying for another year comes the project of getting myself out of debt/rebuilding my savings that must also occur. So that's an ongoing project that would be slightly less ongoing if I didn't insist on traveling so much.

Like say, to San Diego for Comic Con. Which I am again attending this year. Not that I've gotten airfare yet, but that's on my current To Do list.

Yesterday I called Harvard's Extension school to inquire about the expiration date of my credits there. This morning my Academic Advisor called me back: Ten years. My credits are good for ten years.
This is awesome for a couple of reasons, the biggest of which being that I thought they expired in 5 years, or...you know, this fall. Hooray!

I am two classes towards a Masters in Biology, and come next Monday I'll be having a phone conversation with my Academic Advisor. I have to say it one more time: I have an Academic Advisor. So weird.

I also have a Career Counselor, who I'll be meeting for the first time next week. That...would be the other phone call I made yesterday. Originally I was supposed to meet with a career counselor back in February, but that was a month filled with snow and snot and other things that just suck shit through cheesecloth, so now it's next week.

I majorly need help with a resume, and maybe a career path. Or even a job street, since I think career path might be beyond me.

Let's see, what else is news while it is news:

I finished a scarf for my mother that I'd put off finishing for the last year or so. Right as it's starting to get warmer in the greater New England area. That's...strangely fitting for some reason. I'd kind of forgotten how horribly stressful/relaxing knitting can be. Maybe this will finally be the year I break out the Hat W/ Ear Flaps kit that was gifted to me oh so many moons ago.

Though I do intend on breaking out the sewing machine as well at some point. If for no other reason than the living room drapes could use a hem, and the fabric on the chaise lounger in the living room could do with some tidying up.

So yeah.
Things and stuff.
Forward progress...I think?