NACA level 1
This has been a grueling week, not because the course is so tough (it isn't!), but because of my logistics. Between taking care of the new foster cat (still isolated in the bedroom and needing assorted time-consuming care), taking care of my guys roaming around the rest of the place, spending over an hour each way driving 21 miles in hellish rush hour traffic to be on time at a class that starts at 7:30 a.m., and my general sluggishness and slownness to gear up to complete wakefulness while it's still dark out, I've been getting up at 4:30 in the morning all this week. By the time I do the whole thing in reverse and get home at night I'm ready to fall down - and this is before I take car of the foster, take care of my guys, and spend a decent amount of time petting and playing with each. (A decent amount as defined by the cats, of course. Otherwise they all just meow piteously in three-part dissonance until they get what they want.)

Whine, whine, whine. Ain't my life hard? I'm so spoiled from having gotten used to living six minutes away from the office! This commute is just insane. I don't know how folks stand it.

But tomorrow it the last day. Yay!!!!

I've enjoyed the course. I've especially enjoyed meeting so many other ACO's from all over. But I am really looking forward to not having to do this commute anymore, and not having to get up so annoyingly early.