Something.

In 26 days, after something like 22 years, I'll be a student again.

A one-class-a-semester, not-gonna-graduate-until-I'm-80, student.

And I say "again," but the thing is, I wasn't a very good student the first time around, so let's just look at it this way:

In 26 days, I'm going to be a student.

After thinking about it for a long time, trying in 2010 (and then apparently forgetting about it until just recently), talking it over with my therapist and friends and Patrick... I went to Long Beach City College (LBCC) and took a test, met with a counselor, and registered for a class.

The test was harder than I expected (my response about the math? "Was that math even human?? If I could do that math, I wouldn't need to be here! I'd be working at Virgin Galactic! Elon Musk would be recruiting me!" I described it to my friend at work, who used to be an engineer, and she identified it as trigonometry. OK, look, I know normal people can do trigonometry. BUT NOT ME.) but the end result is that I am qualified to take entry level english and math classes with all the other freshmen, and I start on August 28th.

The same day J. starts first grade. 

Anyway, it's something. I've been needing a something, and this might be it. Who knows?