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Whirlwind

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It’s about two hours before Marty I leave for the airport to fly to Germany via Iceland (hey, Björk!).  This after I returned Monday from an excurison to San Diego to present at a conference.  As I’m waiting to leave, I can’t help but reflect on the past year and how much has happened and how much is going to happen in the next few months.  It has been and will be a whirlwind that shows no sign of slowing until possibly mid-August.  But the way I see it, the school year was tough, much more of a struggle than I anticipated and much more of a struggle than I initially wanted to admit, so I deserved some time off to travel and see new places and meet new people.

I should have fairly regular internet access, so I’ll be sure to post some pics from Germany, and I hope to have some really good ones for the upcoming 12 of 12.  Stay tuned!

Happy Birthday, Oreo!!

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Today is Oreo’s unofficial first birthday, ‘unofficial’ because I don’t know exactly what day she was born last year.  I know it was sometime in late January or early February, so I figured February 4th was as good a day as any.  I’ve had her for almost 10 months now, and I can’t imagine how empty my life would be without her, especially since I’ve moved up to Lowell.  Granted, getting up early to take her out in near-zero temperatures is not loveliest task to complete, but it’s a small sacrifice.  Here’s to many more birthdays in Oreo’s future!

In other news, I just found out I’ll be presenting at the IASPM-US Conference in San Diego at the end of May.  Woo hoo!  So, that’s makes two conferences in two weeks in May…I feel like I’m having deja vu, seeing as I did a conference tour two years ago.  No road trip for me this time, though, as the U2 Conference is in NYC from May 13-15, and the IASPM Conference is in San Diego from May 29-31.  Even though they’re two weeks apart, ain’t no way I’m driving to California from Massachusetts.  The way I see it, I’ll probably spend as much on gas and hotels along the way as I would on a plane ticket, so I’ll take the convenience of flying.