Dear October,

I must say, I am not sorry to see you go.  While there of course were some highlights to the month, for the most part, you were brutal. 

 

I'll start with the highlights:

 

~Got to see Joe twice this month, including a really good trip down to Purdue

~Two really awesome nights out in Chicago (a girls' night in Ukranian Village and a housewarming in Hyde Park - totally different groups of people, totally different nights, both amazing)

 

But that's about it for the highlights.  The rough parts of this month definitely outweighed those!

 

To elaborate...

 

~Over 240 billable hours of work.  Which translates into probably at least 300 actual hours spent at work (because I can't bill every hour I'm here and interviewing and practice development in particular add up to a lot of non-billable time...)

~Severe sleep deficits throughout the month that left me alternating between a haze and a funk a lot of the time

~Had to cancel not one but two trips (OK, so one trip I actually cancelled during September but was supposed to happen in October and the other I cancelled during Ocober but was to happen in November but both touched October so both count here).  And let me tell you - missing Joe and Kendra's wedding (for work no less) SUCKED

~Barely got to see my friends at all :(

 

So while I don't expect November to be easy by any means, I'm hoping for an improvement!  October... you will not be missed!

Looking forward, not back,

me