Just a quick update. Got some good sleep this morning, woke up, got in a good hour or so of exercise, then had a quick breakfast. Most of my day was spent transferring my auto title from the state that I used to live in to the current one, as well as getting new license plates and tabs. I was VERY worried about this as my W was also on my title and I was concerned that she would need to sign off on the transfer with a notary and send it to me. Right now, I'd rather not bug her with stuff like this because I have a strong feeling that she would use it as leverage over me. ("Oh, so NOW you want to talk to me now that you NEED something? Well, HERE'S what's going to happen from now on!" etc.)
Fortunately, I only needed me. The whole thing cost exactly $100, which was reasonable given my budget. It was a bigger hit to the bank account than I thought it would be, but fortunately, my work is throwing in a $200 bonus this year for the holidays. Yet another reason why I'm glad that I have the job that I do!
The rest of the night will be spent finishing up my NaNo novel (less than 5K words to go, thank God), eating dinner, and reading "The World According to Garp." Sadly, as much as I'm loving this book, much of it has become a big trigger. Garp and his wife experience numerous counts of infidelity during their M. The first occasion, a love-square between Garp, his wife, and a couple that they're friends with, was so hilariously-written that it didn't bother me much.
However, I'm now on a scene where Garp's wife is starting to fall for one of her graduate students. It really hurts to read this chapter because John Irving describes so much of an A with accuracy. Her student is really not that attractive and is also unlikable in nature, but she is still drawn to him because of a lack of things in her M and because she's getting so much validation from the student's attraction to HER. Also, as she falls more for the student, she starts seeing more and more faults in Garp as a husband.
I'll just power through it because I doubt that the chapter will last that long, but just thought that I'd mention this. John Irving seems to get so much of it down accurately, and the subject is popping up so much in this book, that I wonder if it happened to him, too. (He did divorce from his first wife not too long after the book was published.)
