After reaching a $1 million settlement in her civil case against New Jersey earlier in May, Katie Brennan is starting to become Katie Brennan again. Slowly but surely, the telltale signs show she’s getting there.

Brennan said she felt “happy” when the settlement was announced on May 15 in a release from the Governor’s Office (though it had been reached a few weeks earlier, according to Katy McClure of Smith Eibeler of Holmdel, the law firm that represented Brennan).