Like a good little analyst, when I'm faced with a situation I don't understand, I seek out people with knowledge in order to educate myself. [Ed: It sounds so not crazy when I type it out this way.]
Since I have extremely limited knowledge about my upcoming life, have been seeking out people with inside information to try and soothe myself a bit. And like all annoying data, my information bounces around the it'll be ok, it's not ok spectrum, taking my mood with it.
Yesterday, for example.
Plan a tentative commuting plan, with other potential options both using and not using my car. Good! Three hours later, am reviewing ticketing website and suddenly not sure if the monthly pass is only good for whatever option I choose so I'm locked in. Another phone call to make.
Or.
11am - gchat with Tass. It'll be ok, it'll sort itself out, you'll be fine. I'll be fine.
8pm - call with my aunt and uncles friend who lives in Northern VA but works in DC. It'll be rough, here's the thing about the transit, and the taxes, and the rent and huh. I guess you'll make it work. Not fine! NOT FINE!
If only those two conversations had been flipped, I wouldn't have lain awake again till after 4am (though the sheriff showing up at my next door neighbors at 130 didn't help).
But, it'll be ok. I'll just keep talking to people and looking for information in order to make my perspective fit with what I need.
And there's always aunt and uncles basement, should the world truly cave in.
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