Holy neglected blog, Batman!!

Wow...I haven't posted in over a year...and a LOT has happened in that year. An abbreviated (and kind of picture-heavy) version:

• Got the teaching job (but you guys already knew that)
• Learned to love my curly hair (results below)
• Got married (picture below- from L to R is Dave, Kerry, me, and Mandie; yes, we only had one grooms man and one bridesmaid, and I wouldn't have had it any other way)

• Learned that I'm actually a pretty good "facilitator" (that's layman's for "interpreter that isn't certified")
• Realized that while I loved my students, I hated my job
• Went on my honeymoon (pic below- on the beach at Disney Cruise Line's private island on Christmas day)

• Steadily became more miserable at my job
• Decided to quit my teaching job
• Then I decided to go back to school for my masters in Higher Education Administration (just like Kerry)
• Took a major pay cut to get a graduate assistantship (basically a part-time job on campus that helps defray some of the costs of grad school...like free tuition)
• Got a GA in career services as the job shadowing coordinator graduate assistant.
• And now I'm also working on becoming a certified interpreter.
  

So now here I am, enrolled in grad school full time, working part time, and I love my job. Seriously, I'm not trying to sound like a suck up. I really, truly love my job. The professionals in my office are awesome, I love the other GAs and Career Educators (undergrads working in the office), and it's an overall awesome atmosphere. I'm also really enjoying (most) of my classes. The only one I'm not loving is educational research, and that's because the professor is really difficult. I could go on about her, but I won't right now.

So that's the past year in a nutshell. I'll try to be better with the blog, now that I have more time. I've also tentatively started a new blog, but haven't posted anything in it yet; I'll let you guys know when I do.