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I live in Los Alamos, New Mexico with my husband, daughter and two dogs (and whichever mice are currently living under the house). I like to spend time with my daughter, knit, bike, run, and tear my house apart, but not all at once.
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We went up to Denver and visited with Neale's sister and her family for a long weekend, and it was a ton of fun. I love seeing Ginnie and Ariana have such a good time together - they're both at fun ages, and I think they've really bonded this year because of the visiting efforts between households. Ginnie got to chase down an ice cream truck, because they live in the Big City and actually have ice cream trucks! It was quite the effort, too - we had Dave and Neale chasing that thing up and down streets, until Dave caught it and sent it our way. Ginnie's eyes got huge when she realized what the guy in the truck was selling! They also played in the wading pool in their backyard quite a bit, and we got to sample Dave's beer, which is very good. We even did blind taste-testing to make sure it was good and it was better than some German import we tested it against. So lots of beer and ice cream I guess. We went to the pool, the library and the park, several restaurants, and basically had a great time.
On the way home I started yammering at Neale about whether or not I should go ahead and finish this stupid degree I'm working on. Stupid, you say Amy? Yes. Kind of. I'm really worried that I won't be able to do the distance grad degree since New Mexico doesn't fund SLPAs (assistants) and that is what I have to be employed as to get the grad degree. The school district here has been pretty much as unhelpful as they can possibly be, so the best I can hope for is to finish the degree and work as a TA in the schools, and hope that they need a TA for one of the SLPs and that I get assigned to one. Or, I will have commute to UNM in ABQ, and there are days when I feel very optimistic that we could pull that off as a family, and there are days when I ask myself "What. the hell. am I thinking." Albuquerque is a good two hours away, and even two days a week that seems like it would be overwhelming for me to know that I can't be there for my family those evenings. On the other hand, it wouldn't last for forever, and who knows.
So right now I'm really not sure how to proceed. I'm going to hope that one of the three SLPs I emailed will get back to me this week when they go back to work, but if they don't it will be really demoralizing...more so that I already feel. I mean, I'm offering to volunteer for them. Free work, people. Take me up on my offer already. I also need those observation hours, sooo, let's go people. I also checked the schools' employment vacancies and they have two SLP vacancies suddenly. This is encouraging to me because that is promising employment at the end of this long process. But I need someone to WORK WITH ME!