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I feel like I'm going to jinx myself by saying anything, but after finding some daily doodles in my brown notebook yesterday, I feel like I should go back to daily journal summaries. I'm missing so much by not blogging, but they take so much time or I just don't think to do it. So here's a short summary of today and yesterday: I found an opportunity at Luci for Project Manager. Despite having accepted a job in Tacoma, WA, I didn't want to pass it up. So I reached out to AJ, the CEO, and she set me up with their Operations Manager, whom I met at the mixer and really liked. She informally spoke with me this morning and really liked me and my experience and set up an in-person interview for me next Tuesday. Nothing is promised or in the bag, but I'm proud of myself for doing my first ever network-based job inquiry and getting somewhere with it. I'm also proud of having gotten past the second step, even if I don't get past the third. I mean, I really reall...

I feel so... Content. Like everything is good and as right. I can't remember the last time I felt like this. In fact, I don't know that I've ever felt like this. Today was my last day at work. I put my resignation in to UW-Madison 2 weeks. It was past time. I have a job ready for me in Tacoma, but that doesn't seem to have any influence on this feeling right now.  Maybe it's that I have a month between now and when I start my next job and I have never had a break between jobs. I don't even think I've a week off. Maybe it's that I have some time to myself and don't have to worry about "what next." Maybe it's that I left with absolutely everything closed, ready for the next person with minimal gap in information. Maybe it's that by doing that, I proved to myself that I am very competent and valuable. Or maybe it's that this job was so stressful and was ruining my life so badly that this is what it feels like to not have it as a pa...