Gossip Fodder

The Professor is close to “normalizing” his sleep schedule. Tonight he should be going to bed around 7:00. Which means he’ll be getting up early tomorrow morning, rather than late in the day. We’ll actually be able to do a day trip on Saturday, complete with an early start. I thought I’d show him some of Amish country, where I did my dairy vet internship a few years back. I just hope I remember how to navigate the back roads there. It’s been a long time, and I can’t find the maps I used to use.

It seems I have this evening to myself. I’m tempted to take me to the movies. It’s been a while since I’ve gone to the movies by myself. It’s a shame the ex is out of town. Tonight would have been the ideal time to go over the stock statement that finally came. He thinks they messed up dividing the stocks. I still need to get my mail from him too – he says there’s one piece that looks important. I can’t imagine what that would be, since most of what is still going to the old address is junk mail from veterinary venders that haven’t gotten it through their heads that I don’t live there any more.

I’ve started giving serious thought to moving away from this area. I was born within a mile and a half of where I live now. I grew up here, commuted to college from here, married someone else from here, and now even work within a two minutes drive of where I live. It’s a small enough town that it is impossible to avoid people that you don’t want to see. And it’s nearly impossible to keep personal business personal. I’ve been lucky that the Professor has been living with me for over half a year without anyone at work knowing. A tight little Christian community like the one I find myself on the outskirts of at work would stone me if they found out that the recent divorcee was living with a man a decade and a half her junior.

California doesn’t appeal. It’s too close to the bulk of his relatives. He’s mentioned New Mexico/Arizona or Oregon as possibilities though. A mutual friend who will be moving to Oregon in a month keeps telling me there’s plenty of openings for large animal veterinarians there. I really would prefer to work in industry rather than clinical practice, though. I doubt the experience I’m gaining at my present job will go very far towards getting me a job there.

When I go to the AVMA convention this July I’ll have to talk to the job placement people there. See if there’s any alternatives for me.