the good and the bad.

well, the good news is that the doula training two weeks ago was fantastic! the course was very inspiring. i am still a little nervous about taking on a client. i am mentally preparing myself to seek out opportunities. i figure, to keep working at the library, i can really only take on one client anyway.

not that i am a great public speaker or anything, but this morning a co-worker and i gave a presentation to a group of teachers on how to use the library's resources. the topic was simple, but i was reminded how much i enjoy training-type situations. my first job out of college was as a bookseller and assistant trainer at borders. i really loved training new employees. maybe i could go around giving little presentations on topics i know things about. that would probably be fun. speaking in public makes me really nervous when i don't really know what i'm talking about, or if the groups are too big, but talking about things i know well to small/medium sized groups of friendly people sounds fantastic.

and the bad news is that i had a weird and rapidly-progressing problem with my gum tissue. i had to go to a periodontist who then performed a gum tissue implant. they used freezed-dried connective tissue harvested from a cadaver! so, my mouth looks disgusting and my smile is goofy. it doesn't quite hurt, but it is a little sore. i also suffered a bad fall this weekend. it had been a long time since i had a good scrape-'em-up fall. I skinned my elbow very deeply and my knee to a lesser extent.

worse, i dropped my lovely sony clie. the screen shattered right over the writing interface, so it doesn't work at all. we only purchased the one-year protection plan, and it's been a year and a half. drats. i really loved my clie. and sony stopped making them. (companies always seem to stop making the things i love the most. i guess my values are in opposition to the values of the majority of consumers.) perhaps it is all an experiment in letting go.