A coworker told me he had to drive his sons to their high school exams because they had to bring their own printers. They are allowed to write the exams on their laptops, but the schools don’t have the facilities to print so many exams out. Ahhhh! That explained the kid lugging a barrel-sized printer onto the bus yesterday. And the other kid, also printer laden,  trundling down the sidewalk in the afternoon.

It’s been a completely shitty month. James lost his job, and though this seems to have been a sort of procedural/political issue, he wasn’t really given any good information on why, largely due to his manager crying the whole time she was firing him.  He is depressed, disappointed, angry, confused.  And all our plans are pretty much screwed. We won’t be moving downtown — that’s the one thing that’s pretty certain at this point. The rest remains to be seen.

And two friends have lost parents this week, which is just so much more devastating. I don’t really have words. It’s petty to talk about the weather, but I actually think if it weren’t for the fact that we have been having 18 hour days, blue skies, and warmth, all of this would be unmanageable. Right now, it’s barely manageable.

Well, that is about all there is to say. Sorry for the gloom.