12/13/24
Trump fucking won the election again, and the anger I have toward that entire situation and the people who put us into it is, um, intense.
Despite the world being a dumpster fire even more so than usual, there are still some things in my life that are going well and that I appreciate very much.
I love my job, I am blessed and lucky to have found it, and even more so that I’ve fit in so well with the other employees and volunteers.
The above is still true.
December 4th was my first anniversary at my job, and when I went to work that day I gave my boss a card I had written for her, thanking her (again) for hiring me because I love my job so much, and I hope to be happy there for a long time.
A day before that, the third, was my and Bobby’s fifth Chativersary – the anniversary of the day we first started talking, because we never stopped.
Except, you know, for the way too many times that we did stop talking but didn’t really mean it.
We spent Thanksgiving together this year – twice – and are planning to host our first Christmas morning at “our” place. It feels even more like “our” place now that he’s financed our amazing new couch:
Things are hard with Elise right now. Really hard.
I hope that she is getting enough out of the program she is in, but I need to be more proactive about knowing what’s going on, and I need to be more positive about everything in general.
I am still not writing what I want to be writing.
I am not writing a book, or even experimenting with something that could turn into long-term fiction, I’m not submitting anything anywhere, I haven’t made good money on Medium since last spring, and I don’t think I ever will again.
And as much as I love my job, I know that I need to be making a whole lot more money than what my yearly raises might get me.
I have really been enjoying Bluesky and would love it if you joined me over there.
All of this to say – Things aren’t great right now, but they’re not the worst they’ve ever been.
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