ok, so I haven’t written in a while… been a lot going on, though… had to try to figure out the rest of my life in a matter of days… finally got a job offer in colorado to teach astronomy to freshmen, so I accepted, and listed my advisor as a reference… upon hearing I had a job, my advisor decided to make me an offer for the job that I’ve been after for over a year now… (despite the fact that two days earlier, he assured me that he still didn’t know if he could give it to me or not). problem is, the research job is only guarenteed for one month… and if I didn’t take it, someone else would… and it would probably be renewed for another year… so after some soul searching and fixing a burn out in my brain, I had the idea of taking both jobs… and it turns out, that’s what I’m gonna do… take the full teaching assistantship, and then half of the research assistantship… it means working my butt off (yes, I will have no butt by Christmas), but I do get an extra $675 a month (minus taxes). extra money is good all of it has to be approved by the dean, but that should go through….

work sucks… nothing new there…

Deedee came down this weekend! it was good… I have to brag a bit for her, though…. her driving has infinitely improved. not that she was a bad driver before or anything but it was a smooth ride this weekend My first experience with a stick shift driver was carpooling with Roy in D.C. He had that BMW for 3 years and it still made me sick every morning I rode with him… Deedee’s had her car for two weeks now and drives much much better than that

gotta run… more later