Thank you for your replies. More food for thought - and a bit of gristle. I was dithering about submitting this thread as I knew I'd be putting myself on the line, that's just the nature of the beast. I really will be considering most of the advice here. I'll just add that the traumas and pressures of past nearly-three-years have calloused me as it is. I'm definitely much more cynical than I ever was. Given a choice between the glass being half empty or half full, my view would be "am I only worth a glass that small?"
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
