Tasty as the 'red date milk' was I am self-blaming for having been short-sighted enough to not see a microwave their and wind up consuming irradiated milk since who knows how long..After a tense pre-dawn, post-midnight discussion with my younger brother I was 'energized' enough to apply to several job openings online; recently I purchased a pretzel from a place which I applied to and now think it's fine. The home maintenance course I am taking ends in early-ish March and I am assuming that it takes ~2-3 weeks to hear back from a possible employer.
Hear back--be called in for a job interview, not counting
being employed on the spot.
Here
https://torana.dhamma.org/the-centre/getting-here/is the place someone was told me where ~2 week meditation retreats are done, not to far from Toronto. I am thankful for how busing arrangements to their can be made and for how both my parents seem okay with me doing this. Applying can be done online but their is a indeterminately lengthy 'waitlist'. If I am working by the time, I am told that I am no longer on the wait-list I can merely decline to go..if I am not working (going to try to not factor 'reporting' to social assistance for a while), things float my boat but it only floats my boat if I take steps to thoroughly understand how busing arrangements from being picked up somewhere in Toronto go.
The heftiness of being absent from home for ~2 weeks..being absent from home for ~2 weeks b/c of something I am looking forward to.

..I
really hope everyone (in my family) can understand a 'possibly don't e-mail or call me for 2 weeks' stance.
meditation is great for many reasons. i am chairing a mtg on meditation tonight. i'll name some of the benefits. improved immune function, larger hippocampus (the memory center of your brain), lower blood pressure, better sleep. and, on a personal note, i get insights ranging from the mundane how to organize my day to the profound why i am the way i am. i am also more likely to accomplish what I set out to do if i meditate before i start.