Update me please! What is going to with all of you??<P>I'm doing well and moving on (gasp! amazing isn't it? It is possible to survive this torture!) But I'm curious as to what all my old MB friends are up to - have any of the rollercoasters turned into kiddie rides yet? <P>DMac - how is your friend D doing??? When you told me about him I felt such sympathy since I have definitely been there. Hope he and the little one are doing well.<P>Maya, I posted to you on your other thread, keep going you can do it.<P>Hope to hear from you all.<P>How is Chris??<P>

Hi Alice .....<P>I think you can figure out where I am from my posts of late.<P>The rollercoaster continues to roll.<P>Glad to hear you're doing well. Don't be a stranger!

Hi, Alice! DMac was just wondering about you the other day (he's outa town til tonight). Great minds think alike, huh? We're doing *great*. Glad to hear you're doing ok too. Life does have a way of moving on. If you let it! <P>Chris is still on the board - W still among the missing, but he sounds like he's doing pretty well personally. The guy deserves a halo. Were you around when he posted some pics from Yosemite (sp?) vacation with his girls? They're cute. I think if you search "yosemite" you'd find them.<P>I'll mention to Dunc that you popped up - he'll want to say hi. Haven't heard too much about his friend - doing ok as far as I know, but the guy's gotta be a little gun-shy by now!!<P>Good to hear from you! - suse

Hi,<BR>Checkin' in! Studying for PhD qualifiers, which is the hazing from hell. My H finalized the divorce in May. So I was pushed off the rollercoaster....Have talked to him a couple of times since then. Two good talks. The saga continues for me somewhat because I still care about him, and didn't want the divorce. Now that his anger is wearing off, he has been nicer to me too. A reconciliation looks very iffy though. He just moved to Boston and I'm in GA. (see my recent post "New development" on all the details!)<P>Suse updated you on Chris. Man, I wish I had half his patience and strength. Glad to hear from you and that life is on the up for you now!<BR>

Aw, gee, shucks guys!<P>I'm doing pretty darn good (considering life sucks). Sure feels like a kiddie ride theses days! LOL<P>suse, You were pretty close. It was the Grand Tetons. <A HREF="http://www.pcisys.net/~chriscal1/tetons/" TARGET=_blank>http://www.pcisys.net/~chriscal1/tetons/</A> <P>Kinda sucks to be an "old timer" here with not much progress in the marriage.<P><P>------------------<BR>Prayers & God Bless!<BR>Chris<BR>For relationship info check out <A HREF="http://www.pcisys.net/~chriscal1/resources.html" TARGET=_blank>www.pcisys.net/~chriscal1/resources.html</A>

Hi ALice, glad to hear things are going weel.<BR>Still here too. Things holding on quite well, actually they are really good <BR>Today is actually the one year mark. This day last year the affair finally ended. I just realized that ! <P>Nice to hear from you.<BR>Take care<BR>Kat<P>------------------<BR>Each and everyone of us is deserving of a kind word, a gentle thought, and the gift of understanding.

Hi Alice!<P>Nice to see ya! Hope all is well. Sounds like you're excited about moving? A new place can be really fun sometimes. I need a fair amount of change in my life so I can relate. Don' wanna move every year, tho. LOL.<P>Great to see you posting. Hope you keep popping in. My friend D is doing pretty well. All things considered. His divorce is final too. He's back to sharing custody of his son with the boy's mom. His new business is keeping him busy and he's succeeded even more than he could have imagined. Soooo...like Suse says, life goes on. And, many times, it gets better as we go.<P>I'll write more later. I'm catching up on a lotta things.<P>Be well.

Darn server crash last week and my response didn't go through!<P>Great to hear from you all! <P>Maya- hang in there, going to read your other posts and catch up now, where does the time go?? You're doing great!<P>Chris, glad things are going okay, the kiddie rides have the odd loop as well but I know you can handle them. Your girls are angels, but I'm sure you know that.<P>Student! PhD?? I've been thinking about doing my masters, seems like a good idea and yet crazy at the same time! Please, someone talk me out of it!!<P>Suse & Dmac - doing well as always (well maybe not always ) - you are the best. Suse, gun-shy, now there's a word I can relate to! But that should pass (she says hopefully ) - great to hear from you both!<P>Kat - things are looking up! You've passed some major milestones haven't you? You helped me get through some tough times and I'm soooo happy things are going well for you.<P>I haven't seen anything from teach or rjr for awhile, hope everyone is well!

Overall, I didn't think my Master's was all that tough. Doing the thesis was hell, but the classwork was ok. Trying to do all of that while trying to work on my marriage, though, was next to impossible. I continued under the POJA, and glad I did, because my education is about all I have left. I think my ex knew that too. At least he didn't take that away from me too.<P>One thing about education, and probably the reason I'm so deep into it, is that it is something that no one can ever take away from you. It is one of the very few things you can truly call your own, no matter what happens in the rest of your life. My decision to go back to school was probably the beginning of the end of my marriage. My ex didn't see any problem with me living through him and his success. Sorry, not me. I make a point of being in touch with just about all of the women in mechanical engineering here. Out of the 20 or so women I've met here, only two are married. I'd say the reverse is true for the male graduate students. Many women here complain that the men in their lives (boyfriends, etc.) aren't very supportive. Sucks, but my informal survey kinda bears that out.<P>Completing a masters has been one of the only source of accomplishment I've recieved in a number of years. That is why I'm so hooked on it. So, have I talked you out of it, or into it?