{"id":9201,"date":"2011-04-02T10:34:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T17:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=9201"},"modified":"2019-12-23T15:41:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T23:41:13","slug":"ellensburg-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2011\/04\/02\/ellensburg-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellensburg Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3045,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.northwestharvest.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260301074935\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.northwestharvest.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-06 10:06:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 04:14:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 04:14:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:3046,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.svdpseattle.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260303001644\\\/https:\\\/\\\/svdpseattle.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-06 10:06:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 04:14:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 04:14:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:3047,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.dawnonline.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:976,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.norwescon.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260129185329\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.norwescon.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-01 16:33:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 19:08:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-16 09:47:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-21 18:12:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 01:05:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-28 09:46:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 04:14:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 19:06:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 19:06:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Well, we&#8217;re here! We&#8217;re finally officially out of Kent and living in Ellensburg, in a cute little one-bedroom apartment just a block off of the CWU campus.<\/p>\n<p>Though the official ceremony won&#8217;t be until June, I am now officially a CWU graduate, having earned my Bachelor&#8217;s degree from the Law and Justice program. Not only that, but I graduated with honors, Magna Cum Laude! I&#8217;m not sure what my final cumulative GPA was (the one that&#8217;s used to calculate honors status, after combining the CWU GPA with the NSCC GPA from when I was earning my AA degree), but my final CWU GPA was a <em>very<\/em> respectable 3.925.<\/p>\n<p>After winter quarter finished, Prairie came over the mountains to Kent, and we spent the next week and a half packing up everything in our Kent apartment. We donated a ton of stuff to various local organizations (over a trunkload of food to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northwestharvest.org\/\" title=\"Northwest Harvest\">Northwest Harvest<\/a>, two trips totaling roughly a carload and a half of stuff to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.svdpseattle.org\/\" title=\"St. Vincent de Paul\">St. Vincent de Paul<\/a>, and our old pay-as-you-go cellphones to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dawnonline.org\/\" title=\"DAWN: Domestic Abuse Women's Network\">Domestic Abuse Women&#8217;s Network<\/a>), almost completely filled a 10&#8217;x20&#8242; storage unit with the majority of our belongings, and took us and one final carload of stuff back over to Ellensburg. A day or so of unpacking and organizing, and we&#8217;re nicely settled in.<\/p>\n<p>The first week in Ellensburg has been pretty good to me, as it turns out. Over the past two quarters, I&#8217;ve been working with CWU-Des Moines Law and Justice department head Professor Reimund on putting together some outreach material, one Des Moines-centric, and one covering the entire CWU Law and Justice department to be distributed to alumni. As we&#8217;ve been working on this, we&#8217;d started playing with ideas on how to improve the LAJ department&#8217;s online outreach. Well, it looks like I&#8217;ll be able to continue working on those ideas, as thanks to a recommendation from Professor Reimund, I&#8217;ve been hired by CWU to work with the LAJ department on revamping their website. It&#8217;s a temporary part-time position through this spring quarter, but not only is it better than being unemployed, with luck this may lead to other opportunities in the future.<\/p>\n<p>So, the next few months are going to be a mix of some fun part-time work drawing on my geek tendencies and generally relaxing and exploring eastern Washington, with a jaunt over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.norwescon.org\/\" title=\"Norwescon\">Norwescon<\/a> come Easter weekend. I think it&#8217;s going to be a good spring and summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the next few months are going to be a mix of some fun part-time work drawing on my geek tendencies and generally relaxing and exploring western Washington, with a jaunt over to Norwescon come Easter weekend. I think it&#8217;s going to be a good spring and summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-9201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}