Life's about to get weird

A week from tomorrow, the spouse is going back to school! Which is very exciting -- new career, new direction, getting the hell out of Greater Cornville, etc. -- except that in order to allow the kidlet to finish out their last year at The Perfect Middle School, we're going to spend a school year in a long-distance marriage.

The thing I'm most afraid of? Seriously, I'm really worried that I'm going to get into the habit of not consulting the convenience of any adult except myself, and I'm going to like it so much that I won't want to give it up!

I also find that I suddenly have worries about personal safety. The spouse doesn't really do anything to increase our personal safety -- well, I mean, he checks whether the doors are locked at night and stuff, but it's not as if he has ever had to scare off an intruder or anything. But apparently the unconscious part of my brain figured that having a male in the house meant it didn't have to worry about safety ever, and now it's all, "Cell phone in your room! Curtains closed at all times!"

If anybody has contacts in Dubuque, Iowa, please e-mail or message me; next summer I'm going to need to have a job there.

P.S. If you ever find yourself zombie-clicking late into the night and unable to pull yourself away from the keyboard and just go to bed already, this Google Images search for 'yawning kittens' may be useful.

edited 2020 to retroactively correct the kidlet's gender pronouns