Backwards and Forwards

So...in updating a friend recently, I realized that there's a lot that's happened in the last two months that I haven't recorded--anywhere. 

This little webpage that you may or may not visit is not exactly my personal journal...although some [ahem, Aaron, ahem] may think it is.  Believe me, there's a lot that goes through this here brain of mine.  I'm pretty sure that I'm not foolish enough to assume that I would still have friends if I shared every minute thought that makes its way through my gray matter. 

I like to think that you think I'm sane. 

I also like to meta-reason. 

But that's another post altogether.

So for boring or for worse, I've cut and pasted a brief compendium of sorts from my email to here.  Because someday, I swear, I'm going to write about all this in detail.  In my journal.

Right.

(For all intents and purposes, dates are approximate...just a little FYI...if you're detail-oriented like that.)

May 1, 2010 - May 8, 2010

• Take the "long" way way home through London and Paris

May 8, 2010 - May 20, 2010

• Rest and Repatriation
• Try to restart life in time to move again
• Apartment shopping online

May 20, 2010 - May 21, 2010

• Make the long and lonely drive from Salt Lake City to South Bend
• Somehow avoid major tragedy from the trailer hitch not being fully connected--the ENTIRE way

May 22, 2010

• First view of the apartment we rented online--broken walls, rotting insulation, stained carpet and major mold was a big deterrent
• Cancel contract--lose $200 deposit (honestly??)

May 23, 2010 - May 30, 2010

• Homeless in Indiana
• Hotel hop, with trailer in tow, while looking for an apartment
• Gratefully avert a dicey night with either the drug cartel or a prostitute ring (we're not sure) in the Motel 6
• Finally find an apartment--sign a year contract--only to find out later that we're in undergraduate party central (I guess if you can't beat 'em...board with 'em)
• Aaron's MBA orientation
• Get a personal tour of the Notre Dame football locker room and stadium (yes, I felt a lot like Rudy--shortness and all)

May 31, 2010

• Feel really grateful for air conditioning and predictable electricity
• Bemoan an Internet connection worse than in Kenya
• Start the job hunt

June 14, 2010 - August 13, 2010

• Temporary employment stint at the Office of the General Counsel on campus
• Begin my own Masters program (yes, we're crazy)

August 14, 2010 - August 22, 2010

• Enjoy the calm before the storm, including camping at Warren Dunes

August 23, 2010

• Aaron starts school again
• The job hunt continues

The End