[GeoStL] Re: I might be out of my mind...

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Congrats & good luck, Susan!

I also am in grad school at MU.  Relocating wasn't an option for me, 
though, so I commute back & forth.  Usually stay overnight one night a 
week during the semester.  So far I've managed to schedule classes on 
consecutive days, so that plan works out well.
I have an assistantship, but my mentor has been great, and I can do a 
lot of my work from St. Louis, and the rest when I'm in Columbia but not 
in class.  Did the exercise phys dept tell you that you had to live in 
Columbia?  The commute from St. Pete isn't too bad once you get used to 
it (I live even farther from Columbia than that), and you get a lot of 
good thinking done, as well as a few caches along the way.

-Todd


Susan Ring wrote:

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>But then, so what else is new?
>Anyway, since I made kind of an informal announcement at the picnic today,
>here's my crazy news for those of you who weren't there.
>
>I found out a couple weeks ago that I have been accepted to the Masters
>program in Exercise Physiology at Mizzou.  Since I will be attending school
>courtesy of an assisstantship, I will need to relocate there for about 2
>years.  An assistantship means that I work for my department in exchange for
>a (very) small salary and a complete tuition waiver. It's a form of cheap
>labor for a grad program and is usually a whole lot of work for the money.
>I have to report for duty on August 15.  That's the reason I had to cancel
>my attempt at having a second summer picnic/going away party.  The only
>weekend that worked for a picnic turns out to be the weekend I have to move
>in.
>
>Move in where?  Good question-I'm going apartment hunting next week.  The
>other crazy part of the equation is that Michael and my daughter (going to
>Meramec for college) wil remain in St Peters and I'll become sort of a
>commuter wife and Mom.  Michael and my family have been very supportive and
>encouraging about my plans.
>
>Otehr folks buy sports cars or have an affair for their midlife crisis-I'm
>going off to school to work like a slave!  Thus, I might really be out of my
>mind.
>
>After August 15 I'll certainly keep in touch with you all via the mail list
>and hopefully I'll get a chance to cache or have lunch with some of you once
>in a while.  I plan to catch up with the Columbia and Jeff City cachers (hey
>Lazylightning!) with whatever little bit of free time I get.
>
>Once I get settled, I expect that if any of you are heading in my direction
>you'll hollar at me and see if we can get together for a bit.  I'm also
>hoping that my studies and work will leave me a little free time to set up
>an occasional picnic or group hunt in Columbia.  They have some very nice
>city parks and then there's Rockbridge just to the south.
>
>Sorry for the wordy post, just a lot to explain.
>
>Had a great time at the picnic today.
>
>Susan
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