HEY THERE LIVEJOURNAL
I saw matociquala tweet earlier this week that ello makes her miss LJ (sort of) (HUGE LIBERTIES IN THAT PARAPHRASE BEAR SORRY), and I realized I super miss LJ.
so I'm trying to put together this lawyerly exit plan and it's producing large toxic levels of anxiety, but nothing like the levels of dread actually doing my job creates. From about February until the end of July, I was billing about 300 hours per month without respite, vacation days, weekends off, etc. And it finally pushed me into the wall; I realized that really there was no line, no boundary they wouldn't cross, no cry for additional help that would actually work, no actual thing I could say that would cause them to operate the team any differently no matter the cost to me.
And then I started having symptoms that my primary care doctor now thinks are consistent with rheumatoid arthritis. I'm on some amazing anti-inflammatory drugs but won't get the good ones until after my first appointment with a rheumatologist on November 4.
And now I'm just done. And then Merwin and I got sort of nuts--we found a house in the fancy suburb of Toledo that we'll be able to afford, eventually, on Merwin's salary alone. We bought it. We're selling my house (closing will be like, I dunno, next week or something). Moving. Daycare and house payments will be WAY cheaper. We've got some milestones we're putting together as "we would like [x] in place before PRHM quits her job." And then, folks, we think I'm just going to quit. Anyway, I've posted most of this to twitter at some point but 140 characters per tweet doesn't really, I think, get the feel of what I'm up to here.
So that's what is new with me. What is new with any of you that are still here???? [I'm going to post this to Ello too for kicks and giggles because that's where I guess we all are going to be now].
so I'm trying to put together this lawyerly exit plan and it's producing large toxic levels of anxiety, but nothing like the levels of dread actually doing my job creates. From about February until the end of July, I was billing about 300 hours per month without respite, vacation days, weekends off, etc. And it finally pushed me into the wall; I realized that really there was no line, no boundary they wouldn't cross, no cry for additional help that would actually work, no actual thing I could say that would cause them to operate the team any differently no matter the cost to me.
And then I started having symptoms that my primary care doctor now thinks are consistent with rheumatoid arthritis. I'm on some amazing anti-inflammatory drugs but won't get the good ones until after my first appointment with a rheumatologist on November 4.
And now I'm just done. And then Merwin and I got sort of nuts--we found a house in the fancy suburb of Toledo that we'll be able to afford, eventually, on Merwin's salary alone. We bought it. We're selling my house (closing will be like, I dunno, next week or something). Moving. Daycare and house payments will be WAY cheaper. We've got some milestones we're putting together as "we would like [x] in place before PRHM quits her job." And then, folks, we think I'm just going to quit. Anyway, I've posted most of this to twitter at some point but 140 characters per tweet doesn't really, I think, get the feel of what I'm up to here.
So that's what is new with me. What is new with any of you that are still here???? [I'm going to post this to Ello too for kicks and giggles because that's where I guess we all are going to be now].