I've ended my 3+ year-long streak of not using a computer. I've spent the last few days trying to remember how to do basic things that my generation grew up doing and regaining (and improving) my typing speed, in between watching training videos and reading through ridiculously long documents that I'm supposed to remember at least parts of.
I really thought I was ready to get back to work, and that doing so from home would be the best way, but I feel totally off balance and overwhelmed and last night I had a dream that I failed my first assignment and got it sent back to me and every other possible employer marked "UNEMPLOYABLE". I'm sure I'm just nervous, but I woke up feeling like I shouldn't even bother.
In other news, I've been sneaking up on my mother-in-law's cat that we're keeping for her and yelling "Thundercat!". The first time I did this, he did that awesome straight-into-the-air cat jump and glared at me from the window sill for five minutes. Now he's stopped caring, and the other cats are too used to me to be bothered by it. I'll have to test it out on the chickens..."Thunderchicken" is more fun to say anyway.