My clinic is open again, though I'll be unavailable for after-hour emergencies that can't wait long enough for me to drive there. I will not return to live in that apartment. And there is something very satisfying in feeling the pieces of my life return to a state much as they were before things happened. Getting back into a routine, in all aspects ( Read more... )

I believe this is the first time in many a year that I've spent a new year having an actual, full-time assistant. It is... a very strange feeling, and I am not entirely sure I like it ( Read more... )

After being very close with someone for half of our lives, we're engaged now. Life's too short to put off something that important, after all. If Ukyou is watching me, I'm sure she'd approve - she was the last member of our little group in college, once we met her.