Thanks to everyone who sent birthday greetings or called me this weekend! It was very thoughtful of all of you, I appreciate it ( Read more... )

Just musing with Blake today about the places we would like to go on a vacation at some point, and thought I'd write them down here to keep track of the list. We are so not sun and beach people, so that pretty much cancels out any place that would be particularly hot and sweaty.

Of course some places would be easier to get to than others, but ( Read more... )

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March has been really busy for me lately, but everything has been going good so far. Here's a couple highlights:

• I got a promotion and a raise! Now I have more responsibility and more money. It's about time...
  
• Blake got a job! He starts on Monday. He's definitely excited to finally be working again, and it's not that far from my office downtown!
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As of March 1st, I am officially a Research Associate.

With that, I just got a $10,000 raise.

GO ME! :D

I guess it's time for an update, although there's not anything exciting going on. Just SNOW, SNOW, SNOW ( Read more... )

OK, My company thinks I would be good at doing a curriculum audit in GUAM.

It might require staying more than a week at a time for a couple different visits, plus all the analysis back here in Chicago.

Guam. Interesting. Why couldn't it have been Togo?

ADDED: I was able to leverage this bid for Guam to send an e-mail to the big boss and find out ( Read more... )

My publisher just sent me the book cover for approval. Awesome.


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So I'm working all this weekend and on the Monday holiday to try and get this report done by next week. I wouldn't have to be working all these extra hours except I am going to be flying back and forth to New York twice for meetings, and then there is a two-day training for another project smack in the middle of all this writing I need to do ( Read more... )