6:15 In a couple of hours, I have to start getting ready to go to Project Graduation at the O’Connell Center to recruit members for next year. It’s pretty daunting because I will most likely be doing it completely alone — unless one volunteer shows up. But, damnit (sp?), I’m going to do it! I’m […]
In less than an hour, it will be Friday which means Jen and [redacted] will be on the A Trail for only 3 1/2 more days. It seems like ages, but I guess I’m doing okay about the worrying. Maybe I’m beginning to have some trust — but that itself scares me. My coping mechanism […]
Jen is on the Trail somewhere between Mooney Gap and Fontana Dam. I really have no money for my bills, let alone to get to R.I., and we’re going. I have to come up with some money. And I need to figure out how to deal with Jen being gone for 5 or 6 months. […]
Jen and I drove to Sarasota yesterday to pick up David — He was Ryan and Melissa Tober’s best man. Then we drove to Daytona to see Mom & Dick and then back to Gainesville (Practicing for June!). I worry about David. He got really drunk the night of the wedding and was very sick. […]
Ok, so here I am at an Episcopal Retreat House in Oviedo, just down the road from UCF. It’s an Americorps PD quarterly meeting. Met some nice people. Mary, the state coordinator is still clueless about my skills, but others are figuring it out. I guess I don’t really need for them to know how […]
I’ve owned my own domain name — davidgagne.net — and kathiegagne.com since the late 90s and I control the email addresses that work with them. I told mom that she could always just enter whatever she wanted and as long as she ended it with “@davidgagne.net” or “@kathiegagne.com”, the messages would get delivered to us. […]
Jen moved in about a week ago — she is being incredibly wonderful, and I treasure every moment. She’s going to Alabama on the 23rd, then to Chicago and the App. Trail with [redacted]. Then, in July, she’s going to Chicago for six months. David will be in Florida in about 5 days and Jen […]
Jen is definitely moving in, but only for May and June. Then she plans to go to Chicago for six months and come back to work in January. Six months at a time in Gainesville with no one to love me. And no money. All those days off in the summer, and no one to […]
Sunday night (Easter), Mom fell on my doorstep and broke her left ankle. We spent hours in the emergency room before they finally admitted her. I spent most of Monday trying to find a place where she could get appropriate care. Finally, Tuesday night, Jen and I drove her to Port Orange, to Horizons where […]
Jen’s pretty definitely moving in sometime in May. She says we’re in a good place so we can get along. But she also says she’s probably going to move to Chicago before the end of the year. And tomorrow’s Easter. A year since we’ve seen David for more than 24 hours. What the hell am […]