March/April Books

11. Kitty Takes a Holiday: Carrie Vaughn

12. Kitty and the Silver Bullet: Carrie Vaughn

13. Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand: Carrie Vaughn

14. Kitty House of Horrors: Carrie Vaughn

15. Lady of the Forest: Jennifer Roberson

16. Flags of Our Fathers: James Bradley*

17. Raise the Roof: Pat Summit

18. Reach for the Summit: Pat Summit*

19. The Last Song: Nicholas Sparks

20. The Lightening Thief: Rick Riordan

21. The Sea of Monsters: Rick Riordan

22. The Titan's Curse: Rick Riordan

23.The Au Pairs: Skinny Dipping: Melisa De La Cruz

24. The Battle of the Labyrinth: Rick Riordan

*sometimes you start a book, and no matter how hard you try, you can't finish it. That's what happened with Flags of Our Fathers and Reach for the Summit. I made it over half way through both of these before I realized that I was bored to tears, and I've read Reach for the Summitbefore. So, I am counting both of them as books I've read this year... kinda.

WYOMING!

I'm moving. To Wyoming. WYOMING. Part of me is still having a small panic attack about the thought of it, and part of me is really, really excited. Here's how it happened.

So... most people know that I was looking at graduate programs this fall for a Masters/Ph.D. in geography. I searched high and low for a program in the Rockies or in the Northwest that would take me and matched my research interests. I finally found one when I met the head of the geography department of the University of Wyoming back in November at a conference in Knoxville. That was it... the program out West that matched me. So I applied, waited, and got excepted. The only problem was that at that point they could not offer me any funding. Between then and now I told them I couldn't afford to go if I did not receive funding, I was told there was a possibility of funding, and then this past Thursday, it happened. I had a phone conversation with the supervisor of the Wyoming Geographic Alliance and she basically told me "You have this position 100%. When can you be out here?" What?! So apparently I'm actually moving.

I will be working at the Wyoming Geographic Alliance, which is funded by National Geographic. Its goal is to work with K-12 teachers on geography education awareness. Setting up summer and weekend institutes, writing grants, sending out information on continuing education opportunites, and maintaining correspondence, the WGA website, and contact database the alliance. I am excited- it's exactly what I want to do, I'll hopefully get to work with the Education department on expanding the geography department's role in educating future teachers on the subject, blah blah blah. Basically- I'm moving. When? I have no earthly idea. I'm hoping I won't have to be there until mid-August. They said they could use me as early as July 1. Which is TOO soon. But we'll see.

Am I totally crazy?