new blog, cross-post!
Started a new one, http://subzerohero.blogspot.com, the first entry reposted here (originally posted at the end of April):
This blog doesn't start in the frigid North, as the title might suggest, but in my soon-to-be former apartment here in Homewood, Alabama (a suburb of Birmingham), where I'm sitting on the floor early in the morning in my underwear using Jenni's computer, to the Mouse House (so named because it's so tiny) in Athens, Alabama, a 1-1/2 hour drive north from here. Pretty soon I'll have to get ready to go work my second-to-last day at the library, but for now I thought I'd write a quick round-up of the current craziness and excitement, though these sorts of intros aren't usually very exciting, so I'll keep it short.
Jenni found out maybe a month ago that she was accepted to the Graduate writing program at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, and then last week they told her she'd be getting a teaching scholarship, which will completely cover her tuition and pay a modest stipend. That was enough motivation for us to commence our Fairbanks adventure.
Last night was my last as a bookslave here in Birmingham. I'm getting a transfer to another bookstore close to Athens, as a temporary thing until I can find a better way to fund the first part of our northern journey. As part of full journal disclosure, check out my old employee biography card, which I removed from the worker wall last night (linky, pops to flickr):
We'll stay in Athens until mid-August, when we go to Southern California to spend a couple of weeks with my family before heading up to Fairbanks on September 2nd. It'll be good to hang out with my parents and my sister, to finally meet my long-lost nephew, to see CA again and eat some good food. I think my mother will be sad that we're leaving to go someplace just as far from CA as Alabama, though to me it feels closer. Anyway, I'm excited. There's a lot to look forward to.
This blog doesn't start in the frigid North, as the title might suggest, but in my soon-to-be former apartment here in Homewood, Alabama (a suburb of Birmingham), where I'm sitting on the floor early in the morning in my underwear using Jenni's computer, to the Mouse House (so named because it's so tiny) in Athens, Alabama, a 1-1/2 hour drive north from here. Pretty soon I'll have to get ready to go work my second-to-last day at the library, but for now I thought I'd write a quick round-up of the current craziness and excitement, though these sorts of intros aren't usually very exciting, so I'll keep it short.
Jenni found out maybe a month ago that she was accepted to the Graduate writing program at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, and then last week they told her she'd be getting a teaching scholarship, which will completely cover her tuition and pay a modest stipend. That was enough motivation for us to commence our Fairbanks adventure.
Last night was my last as a bookslave here in Birmingham. I'm getting a transfer to another bookstore close to Athens, as a temporary thing until I can find a better way to fund the first part of our northern journey. As part of full journal disclosure, check out my old employee biography card, which I removed from the worker wall last night (linky, pops to flickr):
We'll stay in Athens until mid-August, when we go to Southern California to spend a couple of weeks with my family before heading up to Fairbanks on September 2nd. It'll be good to hang out with my parents and my sister, to finally meet my long-lost nephew, to see CA again and eat some good food. I think my mother will be sad that we're leaving to go someplace just as far from CA as Alabama, though to me it feels closer. Anyway, I'm excited. There's a lot to look forward to.