It's a double header!

I had an epiphany today at work.  Two people were in dual control to go lock up keys and I was not one of the two people involved and it made me incredibly (and irrationally) fearful.  I paused to ask myself why and realized that it is because one of those two people has "vented" to me about some of our co-workers on multiple occasions.  I was afraid of what this person was "venting" about me!  And realizing that, my trust in this person shrank.  How can you trust someone who "vents" about other people - what's to say that person doesn't do the same about you when you're not around?

---

D and I had a very productive weekend in that we think we may've figured out our 5 year plan (ish).  We moved here knowing that D wasn't supposed to go to paramedic school yet and we were both supposed to be working.  I think we both got a little bit restless with that.  D's dad took us out to dinner the other night (he is a fire chief) and talked to us about the future.  Basically, it was the kick in the pants that we/I needed.  Suddenly, we realized we needed to make more concrete plans than "oh, we're gonna go to grad school somewhere and D will work somewhere."  We realized that we want to stay in the Sac area for keeps.  We realized D has about 3 years of really applying to get hired before he's "too old" and once you're hired somewhere, you stay - so going to grad school and then transferring up here really wasn't an option.  But we knew that I needed to go to grad school.  

SO

We found out that UC Davis has an MFA in Directing!  And, after doing some research, I'm pretty damn excited about their program!  And D is going to start applying right now for fire departments and we're not going to do paramedic school!  Now, it took D's dad 2 years to get hired so we're not expecting a job right away, but we're done with the waiting-to-figure-things-out thing.  We are moving forward (hallelujah, amen).

Next step for me is to make an apt. with the advisor person at UC Davis and go meet with her.  (PS - the head of the directing program at UC Davis is female!!!)