... A Year Ago ... A Year From Now ...

Usually, I post the AYA-AYFN post in October. I really can't remember why. But since I missed it entirely last year, and things are getting busy, its coming early.

So, a year ago, I was in Denver with the Yay Dub. My son had just come to live with me.  My nephew was there with us too.  The extent of 'her' yay habit was yet to be revealed.  By Halloween it had become commonplace to see the plate, straw and blade sitting on top of her jewelry cabinet.  All I can say is it snuck up on me.

Shit went 23 kinds of sideways after Halloween, and came to an explosive and near violent climax at the end of November. About a week after mom and everyone left after Thanksgiving I was picking up the U-Haul, packing our shit, and getting the fuck out of Denver while she was off doing someone somewhere. He probably had good yay. That was her MO.

Anyway, back in Phoenix and got the stench of her out of my nose just in time to really figure some things out. Graduated from GCC. Got married to the one woman who has unequivocally (and unrelentingly) loved me without condition.

The stains and pains of recent years are washed out and I'm finding it difficult to remember the details of the drama.

I'm at ASU majoring in Dietetics. I'll be here for three more semesters, maybe four. Then its either an internship, a PhD program, or medical school. I have no fucking idea which.  We'll get to that next year.

A year from now I will be in my senior year at ASU. Hopefully still living in family housing and still not driving any of my 100 mile a day commutes to class.

I do NOT miss the law. Or even the money really. Law school was not about me, and it wasn't even about the people who really matter. Still, the education is awesome and makes what I am doing now a lot easier. Plus, I really am smarter than everyone else in the room when it comes to things like policy, Constitutional law, and other legally inspired topics.  And for the rare prof that insists on being called "Doctor" by his students, I can require the same courtesy in return.

Anyway ... blah blah blah ...

Hopefully there will be some funny shit happening soon so I can blogshit about it.  Knowing me, its just around the corner.