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Sunday, June 29, 2008

I've been having this recurring dream where I'm back in high school, and I have an English/ history class that I'm taking, but I don't know all the requirements for it. I have a big paper due, and everyone around me is almost done, but I haven't even started. I know I need the class to graduate, but I just can't get it together to do well. I had it for the third time yesterday . . . ?

Only about one month left until the wedding. We need to start calling people who we haven't heard from, and get the DJ squared away. Other than that, we're ready . . .

People have been asking me about having "cold feet," and I can't say I've had that at all . . . it makes me happy to know that Andres will be the only one for the rest of my life. I wouldn't want it to be anyone else :)

On a completely different note, I was just reading about a diploma mill (an "entity that awards degrees for 'little or no' coursework and that lacks accreditation by any government-recognized entity") that got shut down in Washington (read the article):

A 2004 report by the Government Accountability Office, which surveyed only 2 percent of federal employees, found 463 who had bought degrees from three diploma mills, but warned that the true number was probably much higher.

More than half worked for the Defense Department, where the then deputy undersecretary for personnel and readiness, charged with overseeing two million Pentagon employees, claimed a master’s degree from Columbus University, which left Louisiana after officials there demanded proper accreditation.

Is that not scary?!?

Saturday, June 21, 2008

A new favorite song . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkHTsc9PU2A

Monday, June 2, 2008

So my job ended at the school district on Friday, since school let out for summer. I'm working at summer school, which is only a month long . . . I will be kind of sad to leave the kids and the school. Hopefully I'll get to stop in sometime next year.

Andres and I booked our flight to New Zealand. We leave August 19, and come back a few days before Christmas . . . so it will be a solid four months. I am starting at UNC in January in the speech pathology program; where we live will depend on where Andres can get a job.

Sooo . . . things are starting to get rolling.

I heard about this during this past weekend: http://www.earthwatch.org/expedition One of Andres' neighbors did it, and I think it's up our alley. Some of the expeditions include surveying Bahamian reefs, butterflies on Mt. Fuji, and carnivores of Madagascar . . . yesssssssss.