Still twitchy and raw from another painful exchange regarding The Thing That Did Not Go As Well As The Other Participant Had Assured Us It Would.

But I'm having more and more trouble seeing how it matters. And more importantly, I have a sense of clarity, vindication, and self-assertion that I have not had in ages.

No, excuse me: RECLAIMED a sense of...

You don't need to know unless you know. None of this had to go this way, but I feel like I have absolutely unassailable evidence that I did everything I could, it didn't do a thing, and I can move on.

And if it ever comes up again, I can prove to anybody's satisfaction that I really, truly tried no matter what anybody says.

I am so exhausted, so worried Other Parties are going to try to provoke another round, and yet, happier and more relieved than I have been in something like three or four years.

Again, if I'm a terrible person, the gods must love terrible people, because they removed a huge lingering burden of guilt and stress from me today.