Thank you, blogosphere for all of your comments re: How to console someone. You know, it’s been a crazy, crazy year – lots of ups and downs. Actually mostly one big “up” (Benjamin) and many smaller “downs” that have been eating away at my resilience. I’ve had some financial problems that have forced me to make some erratic career choices. And some opportunities that have left me questioning what I really want to do for the rest of my life, career-wise. Working for Affinity Labs really gave me a taste for working in the world of Internet media and now I feel like I want to get back into it somehow. But there’s just not enough room in my life for raising a kid, nursing, and a brand new career so I think I have some tough choices coming up. (And by choices I mean between nursing and Internet media. Obviously the kid stays.)

At any rate, a heartfelt thanks, because it really makes me feel better to dump all of my problems onto the Internet and get some great comments in return. You guys never disappoint. I did however, have a great non-internet exchange with one of the nurses I am working with at my new job. I told her how I had left an Internet start-up company that quickly got sold for $61 million.

“Holy crap!” she said. “For that kind of money I’d disimpact someone every day for six months!”

And that my friends, is just the kind of reaction I like to hear. Why? Because it made me laugh, and not just a casual little polite giggle, rather a deep down inside, honest to goodness, laugh. And for one delicious moment I felt really good.

Sorry to get all personal on ya. More nursing stories coming soon.