BLEH!

So bleh, that pretty much sums it up. Thank you for reading! No, I started school Tuesday night and although I tried to trick myself into thinking this semester was going to be easier because…because…well I don’t remember why I said that, but-its not going to be. I’m still going to be spending every week night and probably half the weekend glued to my computer doing work, not to mention teaching all day. It’s just, well I just don’t love it, and I don’t even like it. I hate school and am BURNT OUT! But I’m doing it anyway; I want my degree more than I want my sanity for the next two years. I want it so bad; it will open a lot of doors for Grant and me in the future. I will stick with it, and in December of 2010 when I go to New York City and graduate-I will have the biggest and best graduation party ever.

Big houses and walks along ice cliffs

Things are good, weather is cold! I feel like my next line should rhyme, but yeah, not going to happen. We are hanging in there; my work has actually been quite eventful lately and been working hard that is not necessarily a good thing. I start class Monday, lets hope this semester goes a little more smoothly than the last, IE, I don’t have to get so close to the failing line. Failing, let me point out one more time, is anything less than a B! Anyway, pictures from Smith’s visit up here when we went to New Port and saw some pretty cool houses, we also went on the “cliff walk” in the freezing weather and wind. Don’t even get me started on the treacherous parts of the cliff. They were like extra treacherous with cheese with ice and snow on them!

Two checks are better than one!

So Grant has a job at the Social Security Administration in Boston. It actually came about the second day he arrived in Mass and was at first a temporary job as a reader for a blind guy who was undergoing training for a different job. Clear as mud? Ok, so he accepted it and we figured what the heck pay checks are pay checks, this way he can work and get settled in and look for something else. Well the twelve week period ended for the temp job, and guess what? The SSA had no interest in letting Grant get away that easy. No surprise to me they loved him and his people skills and wanted him to be their disability coordinator. This is good for all the obvious reasons, but also because it will allow Grant to apply to inner-agency vacancies whenever he wants to (those are jobs that aren’t open to the public, just people who have worked for the government for at least a year.) So a big fat Congrats about 6 weeks late. We are now officially gainfully employed adults and have shirked the yoke of being lazy grad students, oh but how fun it was. I’m going to stick to my promise of brief but often when it comes to my postings, so will talk about Brian’s visit and post some pictures of that next time.

Reviving the Blog

Hi y’all, I’m blogging again after 7 months or so of not blogging, and letting my poor blog just fall to the wayside and whither. Come back and read, I have a new goal! Do not try to write so much, write less…and do it more often. Quick update—I got into the grad program at Hunter College, it kicked my butt last semester and I spent a lot of December in fervent prayer that my grades would be high enough to continue in the program (shh, cant make less than a B), okay, so I did make the grades and I am currently on Christmas break, which for these east coast schools is 6 weeks now that’s good thinking! Grant is here, he has a job, our apartment is full of our stuff, and unpacked! Boston is still beautiful, although when it’s under 14 inches of snow and ice it is…somewhat less beautiful. Ok, later on this week I’ll spill more about Grant’s new job and other interesting things like, the week Brian Smith came to visit, I may even post pictures…ooooo!