Well, I’ve made my decision. I’m done in June. I can’t elaborate on why, yet, because the Future Plans for my school and program were only revealed in a "confidential meeting," but those of you playing along, knowing the situation, can probably guess what those plans are, and maybe in a month or so, I can elaborate.  Just want to play it safe, here.

So, yes. Done. Holy Fuck.

Dave is totally supportive, because he is amazing like that, and all of my justifications are mostly for myself.  I’ve never looked for a job when I’ve had a degree, I have some great contacts, I can always sub, I still have to meet with the uni guy, I can take loans for grad school, I can always call the library and let them know I’m available to sub there, etc, etc.  I have a lot of contacts, a lot of unburned bridges, you know?  I will be fine.  I will be fine.

As Dave said, he’s not afraid of us going bankrupt — right now we save about 10 percent in our retirement accounts, and put money into savings each month, and we still have enough to buy stupid shit if we want it (there’s a spoiler for his RS headed our way, for instance) and we’ve lived on much lower funds before.  We can do it again, if we have to. It will be okay.  It will be okay.

In other news, I am working this week doing tourney pictures for my dad.  Maine’s high school basketball tournament is legendary, the city is packed for this whole vacation week to go to the auditorium to watch the games.  People don’t even just watch their team, or their kid, there are 6 games a day, and people will buy weeklong passes just to watch.  The hotels and restaurants are packed, the stores are packed, with Bangor as a ‘service center’ city for northern Maine, it’s a resupply destination.  Which is great, the businesses here get a second Christmas, basically, with people spending tax return money all over town.  For residents, though, it sucks, dammit!

I’ll be shooting different games all week, and the thrill of using the D70 will be countered by the annoyance of running into people that weren’t my friends in high school, but feel the need to say hi anyway, because they knew me from then. Bah.

But, if I refused to shoot tourneys, I’d never have gotten this shot, which still makes me crack up.

Yes. I am 12.