And this is where I’m really overdoing it.
Such a long day, after such a long weekend, and I have so much left to do.
I really just don’t have an idea of how many free hours I’m going to donate this week; I hope that eventually I’ll reap the benefit of it.
Recap of your year month-by-month.
January: wintertime in the new place in Norfolk. I was still working in hell, but I was taking full advantage of the ability to go to and from home on weekdays. at least some of the time. It was incredibly cold, and it snowed a bunch.
February: Sarah’s preparations to leave, and I was digging hard looking for a new job.
March: Sarah came up north, and I continued toiling away in the freezer box where I was.
April: I got fired. I also got a replacement job in pretty short order that’d allow me to work from pretty much anywhere after a week’s training on the sinister coast. It was contract-to-hire until they won the recompete.
May: I moved north. I’d heard nothing from the company who’d hired me about preparations for the training on the west coast, so I started looking for something else. I got an offer on the something else that, while not what I really wanted, would have paid the bills for a bit.
June: After failing to find something different to avoid the job I’d received an offer on, I started there. This was after I’d finally gotten in touch with the recruiter from the west coast thing. Turns out they’d lost the recompete, and were scrambling to figure things out. So I started the job where I’d gotten the offer. For a change, I had my own cubicle. But I wasn’t sure that I was really going to like the work. There was one guy there who I’d worked with before. I was starting to put some of my experience to use when I got a surreptitious email saying something along the lines of, “I’m not supposed to talk to you, but you need to email this guy.” While I was composing the email to that guy, he phoned me, and offered me a job with the company that’d won the recompete. So, eight days after I started at the place I didn’t want to be, I gave notice, and left. June would have also been my first missed Tysabri dose, and I was not feeling well because of it. I did see my neurologist at Georgetown for the first time, a week after I’d missed my scheduled Tysabri dose. The neuro I’m seeing is the lady I’d seen when I came up a couple of years ago looking to be a test subject for whatever MS research they were doing. She was excited to have me after I’d tried, and failed, to get in with the cutting-edge myelin repair work at George Washington.
July: Independence Day saw me getting a round of IV steroids. because of the missed Tysabri. Finally did get the dose two weeks after the round of IV steroids.
August: See my writings from then, please.
September: Finally started to get things straight with my medical stuff.
October: So much work.
And, yeah, this is half-assed. I’m sorry. Or not. My mother is here for Thanksgiving, so I should go be social or something.