Update

Thanks all for the condolences on yesterday. I wish I could report things have gotten better but, in fact, today was more of the same. For some reason, however, I remain in a remarkably good mood. Perhaps it is the impending end of semester? Or perhaps I'm still glowing from the got-a-huge-grant-out high. Here's the latest:

• Termites are not a huge problem, and since its a rental, its not my expense.
• Termites come from a leaky roof that will now need to be fixed.
• Leaky roof again is not my problem although living through the fixing may be annoying.
• Mrs. Landlord got accepted to graduate school (Mr & Mrs Landlord are a lovely couple who are around our age; a blended family with 1 boy just a few years younger than Angel; he's a photographer and she's a poet; they live in our neighborhood and are extremely responsive yet unintrusive--in other words the world's perfect landlords--oh and they've never raised the rent) so they will be relocating and selling our little house.
• Mr & Mrs Landlord will sell to investors and will put in the contract that our rent can't be raised for a year.
• We're looking into our options - maybe we'll finally move out of the city and back into the woods.
• Today I found a small farmhouse on 12 acres next to a lake where b likes to kayak for $200 less than what we currently pay.
• Angel called to find out how things stood after last night. He didn't remember much of the conversation and thought he was belligerent.
• Angel can be belligerent but wasn't last night and hardly ever is with me.
• He did remember the weeping. It seems he called about 6 people last night and was probably weepy with all of them.
• He had a designated driver.
• He's in agreement with me re the job situation.
• b had to go back to the dentist for a check-up after his last wisdom tooth removal. His mouth still hurts.
• The car broke down on the way. The alternator is shot--again.
• We only have one car. She is old. Very old. We love her but realize she will need to be replaced sometime in the near future.
• If we move back to the woods we will need 2 cars. And there will be a lot more driving in our lives.
• SouthLite is being hit with mandated furloughs. I'll be losing a small percentage of my pay for the next two months. No word on what will happen after that. Raises not happening, now hoping there aren't more pay cuts.
• Taught my last class for the semester (still have 2 classes of presentations to sit through). My students ended as awesome, if not more so, than they started. I will miss this group.

Life: you take the good with the bad.