whee, progress

One way or the other, I think by tomorrow evening we will have set a date for our wedding. We saw a possible venue last weekend, and it was fine, and it's available on exactly one of the dates we're considering. But there's another possibility that is available on a date we like better, and we're seeing it tomorrow; so if we like that place even as much as we liked the first place, I think we'll book it and OMG then we will have a date in place. And if we don't like it, there's one more place we can consider, and I believe it's available on the same day as the first place. So we're down to two dates really and it depends if the place we see tomorrow is acceptable.

[meep]

In other news:

• I have - shockingly, now that all the Christmas singing is over - a gummy cough in the top of my lungs. It doesn't hurt, but it's really very uncomfortable.
  
• My new job pays better than my old job (plus I can have it, which of course is no longer true of my old job), but it comes with many many frustrations, one of which is that the people I report to are less interested in minimizing frustrations than the people I used to report to. Not that they're bad people, or even bad people to work for - just that the way they arrange their priorities is less in-tune with the way I arrange mine than my old team's. These are not My People. I'm keeping my job-searching eyes open and trying to get back to the university, because in extremely broad terms, I am way more on board with the aim and purpose of higher education than I am with the aim and purpose of my present overlords. (But I'll keep taking their money in the meantime, of course.)
  
• I have a paper cut on the second knuckle of my right ring finger and it's actually fairly painful and really annoying.