I will probably pick the class back up again in the winter but there's just too much stacked against it right now. It's in the middle of one of my two weekdays off, so I can't make plans to go out of town or anything. I used to have other meetings that day, but those groups take a break for the summer, so that day is now free. I want to be able to change my work schedule to do occasional 4 day weekends.

They have been very slow about returning work- some other stuff that was supposed to be fired for a special project did not get fired in time, so I had to use lesser quality work. I also had a weird social encounter a couple of weeks ago and would like to just stay away for a bit.

I am definitely ambivalent about this choice, but I think it's the right one. I was disappointed that I had decided to sign up for the last session, so I thought I would see if I liked deciding not to better

And, yeah, I really had nothing to do for three hours. I have a small window of time to wrap all of this stuff up on Saturday. It's seriously annoying- and ruins any get out of town plans I have for my weekend (I have Fridays off).

Having been going through trying to figure out software licenses and what people need vs. what they have vs. what our buying options are - I am not surprised you had to email so many people! Isn't it crazy trying to figure that out? Missing admin rights is just the icing on the cake.

I'm glad you are getting busier at work. Hopefully there's a chance that your role in these projects will become more interesting? My work has been okay. I started comparing this place to some other places I've been recently, and it really is much better. I am just going in and doing what I can, trying to be relaxed about it. One department wants me to do some really tedious stuff that they want to take credit for. I am trying to put the burden back on them.

Oh, I had a recruiter contact me yesterday for another job I don't want!