beepee, I'm sorry you didn't begin your actual IC today. I can appreciate your disappointment. However it was a step in the process and in the right direction. And perhaps this person "getting a feel for your story" may well result in you being assigned an IC closely matched to your needs and sitch.

Regarding the 4th of July (and you've gotten some great advice, here, on that), how about looking at it from a different perspective? And I'm being serious here:

As it turns out, I have nothing to do and no one to do it with this weekend. True. So I ask you. Do you have any suggestions for me?
And no fair repeating the one's you've already been given smile


Gardener

"My soul, be satisfied with flowers,
With fruit, with weeds even; but gather them
In the one garden you may call your own."
Cyrano deBergerac