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Well, I have finally finished my ghost tour training. Hurray! Of course, it seems that I do not speak English, because my boss keeps scheduling me for days I have told him I cannot work. Is it too much to ask for one weekend day off? Really, working 15 days in a row (at best) is not good for me. Call me lazy, but I just can't do it. I also can't get from a kendo class in Norfolk which wraps up around 6:30 to my job in Williamsburg by 6:30. Teleportation does not work out well for me, it's about an hour drive, besides which I can barely walk after kendo half the time, and no one wants to smell me at that stage anyway.

Aside from being the Cassandra at all my various jobs and the accompanying stress and irritation, things are going ok. I'd like more days off, and a vacation, and to sleep in, and stuff like that, but in a way things seem to have settled down into something more or less predictable and I'm managing to relax just a little bit. It feels like some things are taking longer than they should, but it being the summer in the south, I hardly care. You just have to slow down, otherwise you'll die.

I haven't got much to say about the knitting, I'm plugging away on the various projects and getting slightly annoyed with the pattern for the Rockstar cardigan. The charts do actually work, but figuring out where to start them at various points in the instructions is painful at best, and nearly impossible if you are not a more advanced knitter. Add that to the fact that they are nearly impossible to read (red paper, stupid non-standard symbols) and the whole things is rather purgatorial at times. At least it looks good so far, I think E. will be happy with it.

I've got myself back on the WW wagon, this time doing it online since I still can't stand the meetings at my local center. So far, so good. I'm making decent, more or less steady progress and I am feeling a lot better which is really the main point. I've even inspired the LYM to make some dietary changes, which is all for the good in the long run (but trying to convince him that I did not go on a "diet" because I thought he needed to go one is a little difficult). I'm having to deal with other people's reactions to me in a different way this time, and I think part of the difference is that I don't have much weight to lose so some of them can't quite get their head around my motivation to do this in the first place. I didn't have so many people around me who took my weight loss efforts personally before. Mostly it's people at work, one of them gets really defensive about it if I ask for dressing on the side or request that we have lunch someplace that serves salad. Clearly, this woman has unresolved weight and food issues, but I feel sort of bad that I'm bringing it to the surface for her. But then part of me doesn't care, and thinks that if I can inspire to her make one change for the better that's actually a good thing.