Thankfully, I do. I'm also being proactive about finding a job that will sustain me and keep my creditors off my back until the possibility of my being a pastor again comes back around next summer. These are all problems with solutions, and I'm pursuing those; I'm just a bit wounded at the moment.

Yeah—and she seems so very happy with this new guy, which I love for her. Just hurts to be totally ignored because she's suddenly getting her emotional needs met somewhere else. And the work stuff is also a spiritual problem, a housing problem, and an academic problem. So, yes, quite a lot. 🫠

Thanks, genuinely.

My professional and academic lives are kind of falling apart right now? And a friend whom I really love has sort of vanished on me because she's started dating someone and doesn't care to talk to me anymore, which has me feeling somewhat used.

This villain will be apprehended, just as soon as I can get myself out of bed and forget that dating and jobs exist

Hopes of a relationship dashed to pieces? Check! Lose my job? Why not! Destroy my academic progress? Sure! Housing insecurity? Bring it on!

Unbelievably so; at least their dogs were cool about it all after the TSA boys couldn't find any of that cocaine they kept banging on about

Okay, so, bad news: The gate agents at this so-called "airport" get real touchy when I can't show them a ticket and try to get in their precious little airplane anyway. I said surely Grady over there could just have his luggage lost and they'd still make weight, but noooo