still here. well, here is a different here than it was last week, so still alive is probably a better term.

i thought my life was going to end in december, when my job contract ended. well, my job contract, due to problems in relations with my boss, ended last friday. i am now unemployed. that same afternoon i rear-ended a car in grand rapids. if you get an ticket (which i got for 'not allowing a safe distance') in michigan and you have an out-of-state license, they take your license away in lieu of bond. meaning, until you pay your find, your ticket is your license. the officer didn't have much sympathy for the fact that i was moving the next day and couldn't go to the courthouse on monday to pay my ticket. he said i'd have to mail it in, and they'd mail it back. problem is, i had to mail in my ticket. so, i am also currently driver's license-less. i do have a north carolina ID card, though, thanks to the fiasco with that last spring.

the whole unemployment thing is embarassing - fired. by an incompetent boss. who was hyper-critical and (according to my coworkers) felt 'threatened' by my experience and age. whatever. i was told by coworkers, by kids, by teachers, by parents that i did a great job. it's unfair, but what can you do? suck it up. figure it was somehow meant to be. and move on.

with no job and no place to live, i ended up in waterloo, ontario, staying with the guy i am dating. (who's wonderful. :) )...not sure what's next. as shocking as it was to loose my job, it somehow was a relief - now i have plenty of time to figure out what's next.

the future is no place to place your better days....