As I briefly hinted at earlier today, Christmas came a little early for us this year. Prairie has all of the details over on Domesticism, but in her own words…
…and as of about 12:15 this afternoon, I’m the new CWU Des Moines writing consultant. I’m THE person to go to with writing questions on that little campus. It’s my job to get this new writing center off the ground and flying. I’ll be the entire writing center for the first few quarters, but as the center grows I’ll be training new tutors to help me. I can’t even begin to try to explain how ecstatic and excited I am (or how close to being in complete shock).
I am so happy for my girl, and we’re both really excited about this opportunity. She’s just finished calling all of her family to let them know, so now it’s all official!
The current future plan, then, is for us to kick around here in North Seattle for the next six months or so until I get my AA in June. Once I’ve graduated, we’ll move down to the South Seattle area, and I’ll commute to UW (or wherever I end up) instead of making Prairie commute from North Seattle to Des Moines any longer than absolutely necessary.
(On that note: any local Seattleites who can give us any sorts of tips or pointers about good towns, districts, or neighborhoods in the general Des Moines area, we’d really appreciate it over the next few months. Best case scenario, we’re hoping to be able to find a little house that we could rent, to avoid the neighbors-stomping-on-our-heads and other side effects of apartment living.)
So there’s the big news. Hooray, and many congratulations to my girl!
Wow, very impressive! Many congrats to Prairie!!! :)
That’s very cool! Grats to Prairie!
I posted most on Prairie’s ‘blog, and I wanted to say we are proud of and happy for you both.
Michael, Prairie,
There are rent houses in West Seattle which would still allow you to have a Seattle address. Arbor Heights, White Center, Westwood, Highland Park, High Point – all within walking distance of groceries, coffee and – depending – many restaurants, most very affordable. Des Moines is certainly pretty with it’s stretch of Sound, but it’d be the ‘burbs. Burien would also be the ‘burbs. Plus, WS is scheduled to get one of the RapidRide buses in only a few years (they’re working on the plans now with the community).
Congratulations!