Nick’s Blog

My deepest appologies for not updating sooner…I know three months is a long time not to write but I have good reasons.  A lot has happened and I finally have a second (well only a few) to breathe so hear goes…

For those of you still playing at home graduation is only four days away.  I know I cannot believe it either!!  In four days I will have my Masters Degree in College Student Personnel (in case anyone forgot what I was actually doing out her for the past two years).  It seemed like only yesterday I was living on Balboa Island with Paul and working at the law firm.  Well two years have come and gone and we will celebrate like it’s 1999 very soon.

Speaking of graduation my mom and dad will be here in three days to help partake in the celebratory libations.  They leave before the sun is even up on Thursday morning and will arrive in the corn and bean fields in the early afternoon and should get to Macomb around 3:30 PM.  It has been about two months since I have seen the parental units.  Since then my mom has turned 50 and went on a cruise will all our family and friends and my dad started wearing depends to control his blatter problems.  Okay okay that last statement is not true…he doesn’t have any blatter problems…oops I mean he doesn’t wear depends.  Well you know what I mean.  Just joking dad you know I love you and cannot wait to see you.  I will have cold beer waiting for you.

Now for the biggest and most exciting news of the last two years.  Drum roll please (yes it is appropriate to make a drumroll sound with your tongue or fingers on the desk)…that’s right folks…I am now employed (aka I have a job!).  That’s right, a big people (person) type of job.  It has been a very tiring and crazy last four months but I have accepted a Hall Director position in the Freshman Experience program at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta Georgia.  I am going to run an all male freshman residence hall of 300 students and a staff of 20 Peer Leaders (their version of RA’s).  I tried my best (and Ashley can attest to this one) to move closer to home to either San Diego, Santa Barbara, San Francisco or Tempe, AZ, but as everything usually happen in my life, things did not go as I had planned.  All in all and at the end of the day, Georgia Tech is gong to be a wonderful place for Ashley and I to move and begin our lives together.  Ashley is already actively searching for a full-time position in the area and I hope sooner than later we will have more good news about her job search to tell you. 

Ashley and I will stay in Macomb until the end of June (around 23-25) and hope to be all moved in my July 1st (when my contract starts).  We have a nice big two bedroom apartment on campus in the middle of downtown Atlanta and we welcome any visitors.  A lot of Atlanta was redone because the Olypics were there about 10 years ago so the place looks great.  Most of all Ashley and I are excited to have an Ikea and Target only a few mintues away.  I will send some pictures when I get a chance.

Now that school is almost done, Ashley and I can start to focus on planning a wedding.  We still plan on having it next summer but are undecided on the location (tenative date is still July 7, 2007).  Neither of us thought we would be living in Atlanta so that should make things interesting in terms of where to have the wedding.  As of right now we are wrestling with a few ideas, but nothing has been set in stone.  Of course I will let everyone know as soon as we do.  You might want to start looking up the price of plane tickets.

I think that gets you all caught up on my crazy life.  My cell phone number should be staying the same, but my e-mail and mailing address are sure to change here in a few months and I will e-mail that out when I get it.  I do not know when Ashley and I will be back to visit SoCal but I will be sure to let you know when we do.  Hopefully it is sooner rather than later.

I hope everyone is doing well!! 

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