A Man Walked Into A Bar...

Chris has been studying so hard all summer. After our baseball trip, he remained at home faithfully studying and reading for the Bar. He didn’t get to go on any of the fun trips that I did, and he’s been plagued with hours and hours or questions, examples, and rules. Poor guy. Well, yesterday and today it finally paid off (we hope). He’s taking the bar. As he walked through the door last night, his family applauded him, but he wasn’t as pleased as he could have been since he knew that he was just going to have to go back the next day. I think that he’ll be much more pleased with himself and his efforts tonight. It will be such a relief for him to be finished, probably forever, with the test. Also, I think that he’ll be glad to be finished and come home tonight because it’s our anniversary. Yes, Chris had to take the Bar on our anniversary. It’s not that we had some huge production planned for the day, after all, I have to be at work today, but it would have been nice if he could have woken up and thought, “Oh good, I’ve been married to my wonderful wife for three years today” (I hope that’s what he was thinking) instead of waking up and thinking, “Crap, I have to take another test today”. At least when he’s finished he’ll be able to concentrate on having a fun evening instead of the Bar.

I Say She Shall

While Chris and I lived in DC, we missed all kinds of activities that our familys participated in. We missed out on the bowling league, the Glauser family cruise, and other things. One thing that I was sad to miss was the first annual trip down to the Shakespeare festival with my mother and sisters. I didn't have to miss out this year, which was great. We went down on Monday and saw four plays. We saw The Taming of the Shrew, Cyrano De Bergerac, Fiddler on the Roof, and Othello. It was great! My mother and I both studied English in college and both have a love of great literature including Shakespeare. There is nothing quite like seeing a great play performed live. My favorite play that we saw was Cyrano De Bergerac. It was so well performed and the story was wonderfully written. All the other plays were wonderful, although I was the tiniest bit disappointed at how the actor chose to play Iago in Othello. I was hoping that the character would be a bit sneakier, a bit craftier. I know that it's hard to emote sneakiness on stage, since most actions have to be exaggerated so that the entire audience can understand what's going on, so I wasn't too disappointed, just a bit. All in all it was a great week. Unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures.

Waffle Run 2008

Chris' mom is a healthy althletic woman. She's also a lot of fun. For the fourth of July, she wanted to do something for her sons and all their friends, so she organized a 5k run and a waffle breakfast and called it the Waffle Run. She had tee-shirts and a banner and hats and the waffles were excellent. We started at 9 in the morning with the run. There were about 30 people there. Chris and I have been training for it for quite a while, yes training for a 5k. I'm totally out of shape and it took me a long time to work up to a 5k. Anyway, we ran it in pretty good time and I was the second girl to cross the finish line, which I'm completely proud of. After the run, everyone went into the house to enjoy breakfast and we all sat around and talked for a while. It was so fun! Chris and I had a few friends there, we were able to get a picture with all of us proud in our shirts.

New Beginnings

It's official, I got a job! I am so excited about being done with the job search. I am going to be working as an assistant to the Dean of Arts and Sciences at Westminster College. It's exciting for me because the Dean is over the English department, which is what I studied in college which means that I'm almost going to be working in my field...almost. It's also exciting because it means that I don't have to go to any more interviews. I've been to three interviews since I started applying for jobs and found them to be the most harrowing experiences. An interview is the only social occasion where it's acceptable for people to sit and judge you, which is horrible. But it's over, and I couldn't be happier.