I'm home, for a while.

Wow. Sorry I went missing for a while, sis. It's been a busy few weeks.

I've been sent on a few trips for work, lately. It's been so hectic that I've barely been able to sleep in my own damn bed for more than a couple hours before I had to get up to make the next flight. No worries, though--all the travel pays extra, and Mom doesn't need it all.

Which is a great thing: my beloved fiance and I have now got a good downpayment saved up. We'll be looking into different banks' mortgage rates in the next few weeks.

In any case, I had my quarterly psych check-up last Friday. We have a new shrink working for the company that does the evals for this state's C.P.A. agencies. She's the one that did my testing, and I managed to get some interesting info out of her that I'm not sure she realizes she gave me. It made me seriously re-think my initial second career plans of going to work as a university admissions counselor.

Apparently, there've been some new regulations quietly pushed through the Department of Education. The Federal government finally managed to get their sticky fingers inserted into university admissions tracking in ways other than just affirmative action: students are being fairly forcibly tracked into "studies" majors in public universities if they are of certain races and get below about a 25 on their ACT, or a 1160 on the SAT. If they get below a 20 or 970, they're tracked into sociology and social work programs. If they get below 18 or 890, they're tracked into remedial courses, then tested again. If they score below the sociology cutoff again, they're tracked into teacher ed.

And if they get above a 25/1160, and they're Asian, they're still tracked into the "dummy" tracks. Because the "dummy" tracks don't have a certain, politically correct, populationally proportionate percentage of Asian students.

And when the new shrink who did my psych testing got the requirements forwarded to her, she changed jobs. I can't say as I blame her for that--it's probably safer for her job security to work with marginally functional sociopaths than to refuse to forcibly track students like that because it's politically correct but morally wrong.

After I can retire as a wetworks agent, I might see if I can get on with one of the psych companies. It'd be less frustrating than working with the feds breathing down my neck, that's for sure.