Hello all,

When the server at the BT Forums crashed in '06, I finally gave up trying to return to it. Went to the About forums for a short time, but never liked those in the first place. So I quit doing forums entirely and went on with life as if I'd never known about them and dealt with life as I did before joining the Forums in '02.

Since leaving, I quit the job I was doing, returned home to one of the parental units, and am now substitute teaching 'full time', which isn't really. *sigh* I'm looking for work that is more regular, though I'll probably end up just applying to sub at the inner-city schools which are in desperate need for subs. Is it stressful? Yes, but in a way vastly different than my theatre job was. The classroom I can handle, unless the teacher is completely disorganized and the classroom is a huge jumbled, piled-up mess. THAT I have issue with, and am nearly to the point of blacklisting those teachers from my list of teachers I've subbed for. Yeah, subbing for those rooms is that bad. Leaving my theatre job was sort of a have-to case. (It's a long story.) Oh well. It was a good point at which to go ahead and follow the Education road and go in that direction at last.

Since I was last in contact...went to a tdoc, and after a few sessions thought she was for the birds. Went to a pdoc and was rx'ed Lexapro to take with the Lithium and thyroid med. After a few months, realized I was at last on neutral ground completely and was having way more fog-head and confusion than necessary. So I tried going off the itty-bitty dosage of Lithium I was on and haven't taken it since...just been on the Lexapro and thyroid stuff. Come to find out, the pdoc had me listed as being unipolar depressive. Hmm...maybe. I still wonder about the way I deal with stress-anxiety, though, and the way it winds me up. The med change was my idea, and it seems to do alright. But I'd like to go generic and don't know if I could get the med changed over the phone or not. The year is about to change over and I cannot afford the trip to Montgomery plus the office visit, which would be pricey. *sigh*

Other than seasonal crap and one of my cats going MIA, have had no trouble. But the damage had already been done at work, so the best solution to b!tchwoman and all of the mess was for me to leave (before they fired me.) '06 was a difficult year...'07 wasn't much better. Here's hoping '08will be a better year.

To a new year, and neutral ground!

--RavensWings