A extended silence...

It's silly how good I am at being patient. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Since I updated last, I have done a great deal of waiting. Waiting for test results to come back, waiting for doctors to come back from vacation, waiting for a real doctor to co-sign my forms that were completed by a physician's assistant (unknown to me until after the forms had been returned to me), waiting for said PA to properly fill out the forms after filling them out the first time, etc. Lots and lots of waiting. I shipped my forms off on October 29th. They haven't been received in D.C. yet...so, I am waiting for those to arrive. And, after that, I imagine it will be at least another 2 months before I hear anything back on that front. My blog posts will probably be sparse until I get some sort of word of something in my toolkit.

In the meantime, I went to D.C. for a week. I saw 4 shows on the Use Your Sole tour (Sherwood, Steel Train, Hellogoodbye, and Hanson). I made some amazing new friends, reconnected with others, and said goodbye to a few. I've gained a roommate and lost a love interest. Or two. I've run into troubled waters with a co-worker and went back to work for an old favourite. I've not had the time to do any more volunteering but it's coming up again hopefully this week. I took 15 kids trick-or-treating, sent emails back and forth with some former students, and realized that they hurt more than they let me see. They are starting to crave the familiar...and I know how hard that is for someone at that age. I am already dreading the say I have to say goodbye to these people...I miss working in the refugee/immigrant community already. :(


That's about it for now. I hope everything is going well as you all continue to make your way down the path to invitation!