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Yay thank you! I will send you stuff later this week when I get some time to sit with it!

Hahaha! Some days I am tempted! yay!! Thanks!! Thank you!! I give you notice, I intend to return! And then we can share stories about how our summers went!    The doodles are a good suggestion!! I love creamsicles and fudgecicles too!! They’re so much fun!!   I will have to look for del monte popsicles! That sounds good! We eat a lot of outshine? I think that’s what they’re called. Those are good too! 

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After we lost the last of our clowder, we'd planned to start over with 1, leaving an 'emergency spot' for a second. So we started fostering kittens just to have a cat in the house. Our very first pair of fosters, we adopted. 2 litter mates, male and female, because they were so cute together we couldn't bear to think of someone else adopting them separately. Then a single male a year later, because he was sweet and funny Then a single female a year after that because she was the closest we'd met to our 'soul kitty' that we lost the year we started fostering. 🤷‍♀️

Dumbledore once came to visit me at work and snuck up behind me while I was concentrating on something. My desk was in stop where people had to walk behind me a lot, so I was used to ignoring them. Dumbledore leaned over me and said "Boo". I was so startled that I levitated from my chair and hit him in the nose with the top of my head. He tried to look hurt, but he was laughing too hard. 😂   Your situation sounds frustrating on several levels.   Would it help to make a list of things that would make your life better? This could work much like your to-do list from work. Some things would be simple, like buying voice-cancelling headphones. Others would be more  complex, like doing art or getting your bike fixed. Having a list would let you have some small (or bigger) wins every day.

Sticking with AF options when everyone else is drinking is rock star level sobriety, Sal!   I love the husky picture with the bubbles. 😂

In defense of goblin days, sometimes they happen. Dunno the science behind needing the occasional day of your id driving your dietary decisions, but personally I think 1 or 2 days in 30 is a nice balance for me. 🤷‍♂️  

You are absolutely right about a lot happening in the last several weeks. For myself, I'm glad to have this week to keep working on my challenge.     The same things are happening all over. The US academic model is falling apart as the student population plateaus and is projected to decline. Everyone has known for years that the graduate school education model was a Multi-level Marketing scheme. Each professor trains 10-30 graduate students over their career, but there will be only one or two job openings in academia that the new PhDs could fill. Some fields direct their graduates to jobs outside academia, but most pretend that they are preparing students for academic careers. Now there are so many unemployed PhDs around that universities are using them as grunt labor (Adjunct Professors) to teach courses, allowing the administration to get rid of tenured faculty. It has always been a challenge to get tenure, but now that option is just plain disappearing.   There may be some smaller private schools that still hold to the previous model of higher education. Everyone I know in academia is reporting that things are getting worse.    There are still good reasons to get a graduate degree, but an academic career is no longer one of them. I'm not sure what your long term plan is. You may want to consider how the current climate is going to affect it.   I hope you can find a second job that is less stressful and lets you put some of your financial worries to rest.

Starting weight- 239.25lb 26/3 - 240.75lb 2/4 - 240.25lb 9/4 - 237lb 16/4 - 239.25lb 23/4 - 238lb   solid foreword momentum this week. Very happy.