Current mood:	sleepy
Entry tags:	hs

Who me?
I'm still alive I think, but barely. And the good news (maybe) is that I'm planning on posting more. Best laid plans and all....

So when we last left off I was considering taking a promotion at work. I did. And to tell you the truth I wish I hadn't. I'm supervising 6 employees and managing projects and get no support from any of the higher ups and I've just generally started to not care about what I'm doing. The pay is amazing, but it's really not worth all the trouble some days. Thankfully my dissatisfaction has lit the fire under my ass to get back to school. So I've finally started the long anticipated grad school application process.

Contacted my old boss at the museum to see if he'd still take me and his answer was very encouraging (along the lines of "hell yes, I've been waiting for you to get your ass back here").

Took the GRE today and did pretty well.

Now I just have to round up two more letters of recommendation, get transcripts from state, write my intent letter and pay the application fee. At any rate, by this time next year I should be back home (aka UNM) and will hopefully be able to stop working where I am now. I will be taking a hefty pay cut, but at least UNM biology guarantees assistanceships, which mean no tuition and a stipend.

In other news, I have been diagnosed with a really rare and incurable skin disorder. I'm not going to name it here, because it's gross and I'm going to spare those of you who don't want to hear or see anything about gross skin problems. There are ways to manage it, and I've started on the right track, but it's going to require some pretty big lifestyle changes for me.

I am however, going to be talking about this and the grad shcool process here a lot. I am going to be setting up a filter about the skin issues so anyone who's squicked out by bodily functions let me know and I'll make sure you're not subjected to posts about them.