Had to deal with a bunch of crap within the past few days: sister not responding to calls and leading me to think she got kidnapped, flight getting closed and sending me into a panic, full-day college orientation in Long Island traffic, and my best friend joked about suicide before ghosting on me for an hour or so. Not so easy on my mental state.
Needless to say, I'm taking a break from staff duties until I come back from China (around August 20th?) so I can teach orphans without stress fouling up my attitude. I might do some staff work here and there if my mood improves, but will be taking a backseat until then.