It IS good to feel better, and have more motivation, but right this minute I’m feeling a little bit lonely. While everyone took my news fairly well on the whole, I’m finding out that doesn’t mean they necessarily want to be around me anymore.

I think I’m getting a polite brush-off from David, and Mark was tactless enough to tell me that he’s going out with Marsha this weekend. Thanks Mark. I really needed to know that. He was quick to point out that there was “no physical stuff” going on, but I’ve been around long enough to know that old habits die hard. I just hope he has the good sense and decency not to tell me about it.

So…onward and upward from here, right? New places, new faces. Sure. Whatever. Instead of exhilaration, right now I’m feeling isolated and left behind. Old habits die hard for me, too.