My family back home is having a lot of health issues.  We'd appreciate your prayers.

Statistics class is over...a few things to turn in for that class, but plenty of time to get them done in.  Research design starts on Monday, and it doesn't look like it's going to be too bad.  I appreciate professors who understand teacher ed students - the fact the we need to know exactly how they want things, the fact that we hate ambiguity.  It's been typical teacher ed around here, jumping through lots of hoops.  Like fingerprinting and drug testing.  That was a lot of fun, trust me.  

I like my apartment, and I like being on campus because it's so peaceful during the summer.  I'm even enjoying living by myself, for the most part.  I've started to catch myself this week being a hermit, and then I have to make myself go outside.  I like cooking for myself, but it's not so much fun to eat by myself.  Kinda depressing, actually.  But I'll live.

I helped Leslie's older brother and his new wife move into their new apartment.  Trust me on this one, move into your apartment before you get married, as opposed to after.  It will improve your stress level drastically.  They had just gotten back from their honeymoon, their flights were canceled coming back to IN, so they had to wait an extra day, then get back, load everything up, and Brandon had to drive a 24 foot truck with a trailer attached to it by himself, since Jenny had to drive her car.  But Mike and I managed to get them mostly unloaded before we had to leave.  It's going to be great to have them so close. 

So what does come next?  I know that I have a whole year here, but after that, I don't really know.  And it bothers me that I don't know.  I probably won't be going back to Indiana.  Anyone who knows me pretty much knows that.  I think that I need to get away from Indiana for at least a couple of years.  And, I won't have taken all the required PRAXIS tests to teach there.  Honestly, I would rather not think about having to taking another PRAXIS test and spend all that money.  Knox County is apparently not going to be a good place to teach, because they are in a fiscal crisis.  I will have taken all the tests for TN and KY (but there's a few things I would have to look into about getting a KY teaching license).  Honestly, I could go anywhere, and I think that's what's making this so difficult.  Right now, I don't have a clue.  And I guess that's ok.  I know that things will fall into place, eventually.

Just for fun, here's some pictures of me when I was little.  I was a cute kid.