Today marks the official end of my severance agreement with my prior employer. Last weekend was my final check, and as of April 1st I will no longer carry their health insurance. It's really not a big deal, yet it feels strangely liberating to know that the last remaining ties have now been cut.

I suppose, now that there's nothing hanging over my head, I could identify them and air out all my dirty laundry... but I won't. I consider it an amicable split, even though their generosity might well have been fueled by fear of what spurned computer geeks are capable of.

And now I'm in a place where I feel like I belong. In fact, this past week I've been interviewing applicants for an assistant position that will be my subordinate. So I've gone from being the unemployed, to the interviewee, to the interviewer--full circle, so it seems. And life goes on...