This year has lead to a lot of surprising things. I finally left a job that was stealing my joy and found a new one quickly thankfully which let me figure out my next moves. I've started teaching again which while busy is so much more fun than working just the one job I had prior to now. I've started making moves to get myself closer to my family and out in the job market in general. I'm also trying to restart my research too which is necessary if I ever want to get a full time teaching position ever.
After lots of frustration and no major changes in sight, I ended another long-term relationship. I thought about it a few weeks ago and over the last decade I've been in a relationship with nothing in the way of progression. And in an ironic twist there's nothing to really accuse the other person of doing that made it crash and burn. Circumstances and commitments can screw up the best laid plans. So now I'm single, no munchkins and I still have a crazy old lady living with me (even though I doubt she'd ever hold up her end of the bargain about leaving for two years after I got married). Speaking of McCrazy I have now realized that no matter what I do, say, think, or imagine my mother is going to continue to behave like a hormonal teenager. She has made almost every conversation we've had in the last two months into an argument about some perceived slight that I inflict but not doing x. The next conversation when I do x she's mad about y. And I can avoid fictional thing, x, and y there is g to look out for. Yes I know that's not z but there's nothing logical about these conversations at all. It's very frustrating but if I want to remain mostly mentally healthy and out of jail I really am just going to have to ignore her. It's not an ideal way to coexist but nothing else I've tried has worked. My resolution for 2013 is to just let her tantrums go by the way side. Ok moving on. And this post may be long so you've been warned, just stop now if you're easily bored by lots of babbling.
