The week between Saturday and Thursday was not uneventful.
Monday: I filed the protective status confirmation documents with the planning board. The liaison signed off in under two hours, which meant he had either been motivated by Friday's public forum or by whatever conversation he'd had with Damien after it. I did not ask which. Both outcomes were useful.
Tuesday: My scholarship acceptance documentation arrived. I submitted the enrollment forms for the spring business programme and spent the afternoon in the university library going through the Blackthorn business school's corporate law module syllabi, because if I was going to navigate a Cole Industries board-adjacent situation in the next forty days, I wanted to be certain I understood the exact legal definitions of fiduciary duty a
