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?