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snapcat's place for dinner... a couple other folks were there as well. We hung out, chatted a bit and drank (well, everyone else pretty much did since I had to drive and didn't want to touch any alcohol as a result).
On the way home, I found two voicemail messages on my cell phone:
ionotter said he visited my mom and took over a couple of gifts, which she liked.
evil_dwagon said he was concerned with how I was doing.
It's friends like the above that can really help lift up my mood, even though the situation itself hasn't changed. I'll admit I've found it somewhat hard to concentrate on work, and even socially, because of the situation at home... but I don't have any other choice but to cope.
The worst part of the situation is not knowing what's happening at home, though I suspect that being home wouldn't help either. The biggest frustration is that every day is touch-and-go, and that I may have to go on emergency leave tomorrow or the next day. I believe it's no longer a matter of if that'll happen, but when.
As a result, I'm pretty much confined to the Omaha/Bellevue area, and I can't place any certainty on any appointments or scheduling anytime in the future. My boss pretty much said it best when he told me to work toward returning (on emergency leave and/or getting a humanitarian assignment), but to go through the motions as if I was staying.
With all that said, I've cancelled all plans to go to any cons for the next 3 months. That nixes Howloween, Midwest Fur Fest and Further Confusion 05. It's not that I can't financially afford to go -- rather it's that because I'm forced to plan everything on a day-to-day basis, I simply can't take the time to go. This is different from my being tied, for the most part, to Oahu for the 3-4 months prior to my move, because then I could go, but nobody was available that was trained to back me up.
Here's the situation that I'm trying to avoid: being on leave somewhere, then having to take emergency leave during the middle of that trip. That would likely be not just a logistical nightmare, but if the trip were to, say, Vancouver, then I would lose any remaining days of the trip, and remaining con days and any remaining hotel room days. If I drove somewhere, say Wisconsin or Chicago, IL, then had to go on emergency leave, I might be able to leave from the closest airport... but what would happen to my car? And again, if I were there for a con, I would lose the remaining trip, con and/or hotel days.
Bottom line is that going on a trip and having to take emergency leave in the middle would be a big inconvenience that I really don't want to have to deal with. I'm stressed enough as it is, as I recently read through my lease and discovered that there was no military clause written in it. While I signed a copy of that lease, I did NOT forward that copy to the landlord.... so I still have time to get that military clause (which essentially releases me from the lease if I receive PCS, or permanent change-of-station, orders) in there.
snapcat's place for dinner... a couple other folks were there as well. We hung out, chatted a bit and drank (well, everyone else pretty much did since I had to drive and didn't want to touch any alcohol as a result).On the way home, I found two voicemail messages on my cell phone:
ionotter said he visited my mom and took over a couple of gifts, which she liked.evil_dwagon said he was concerned with how I was doing.It's friends like the above that can really help lift up my mood, even though the situation itself hasn't changed. I'll admit I've found it somewhat hard to concentrate on work, and even socially, because of the situation at home... but I don't have any other choice but to cope.
The worst part of the situation is not knowing what's happening at home, though I suspect that being home wouldn't help either. The biggest frustration is that every day is touch-and-go, and that I may have to go on emergency leave tomorrow or the next day. I believe it's no longer a matter of if that'll happen, but when.
As a result, I'm pretty much confined to the Omaha/Bellevue area, and I can't place any certainty on any appointments or scheduling anytime in the future. My boss pretty much said it best when he told me to work toward returning (on emergency leave and/or getting a humanitarian assignment), but to go through the motions as if I was staying.
With all that said, I've cancelled all plans to go to any cons for the next 3 months. That nixes Howloween, Midwest Fur Fest and Further Confusion 05. It's not that I can't financially afford to go -- rather it's that because I'm forced to plan everything on a day-to-day basis, I simply can't take the time to go. This is different from my being tied, for the most part, to Oahu for the 3-4 months prior to my move, because then I could go, but nobody was available that was trained to back me up.
Here's the situation that I'm trying to avoid: being on leave somewhere, then having to take emergency leave during the middle of that trip. That would likely be not just a logistical nightmare, but if the trip were to, say, Vancouver, then I would lose any remaining days of the trip, and remaining con days and any remaining hotel room days. If I drove somewhere, say Wisconsin or Chicago, IL, then had to go on emergency leave, I might be able to leave from the closest airport... but what would happen to my car? And again, if I were there for a con, I would lose the remaining trip, con and/or hotel days.
Bottom line is that going on a trip and having to take emergency leave in the middle would be a big inconvenience that I really don't want to have to deal with. I'm stressed enough as it is, as I recently read through my lease and discovered that there was no military clause written in it. While I signed a copy of that lease, I did NOT forward that copy to the landlord.... so I still have time to get that military clause (which essentially releases me from the lease if I receive PCS, or permanent change-of-station, orders) in there.
