>>>Well here is a new wrinkle. It looks like I will indeed be subletting, but from an LSU professor, not a student, and away from campus in a quiet neighborhood. It's from next Sunday until the end of June. She hinted that there may be a way to extend it with the landlord. Maybe there really is someone up there smiling down on me ;-)
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>>That's great! Glad to hear things are looking up. How's the new gig?
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>Really good. I like the people, the city, the project, everything. They have a backlog of change requests and I am going through them like a chainsaw.
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>I can't tell you how good it is to be productive again. Not working for 8 months was something I never expected to experience.

I understand. Work defines a man. When women meet, they ask about the family. When men meet, it's well, "what do you do for a living?" Glad you're back in the saddle.