This was a trial…. I’m making a note here….HUGE SUCCESS!
If you don’t understand that reference I highly recommend you play the game Portal for the PC or Xbox 360. If you’d rather not and just skip to the point, here’s a YouTube video with the end credits that have the song. For those of you that did understand, +10 points for you! :p
I’m still alive, I’ve just been traveling a lot lately. After coming back from Germany on the 26th of March, I stayed around the Seattle area for about a week before heading off on another adventure to the east, this time to North Carolina. Laura got accepted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to get her PhD in History. It’s a six year program: two to get a masters, then four more for the PhD. We went to check out the school, and afterwards we went and visited my sisters. One is living in North Carolina and going to school there and the other is working in Washington DC now. We went and visited them both and had a great time!
I’m going to get some pictures posted here sometime soon, but for now I’ll just say that Chapel Hill looks to be a very nice town of about 50,000 and I think it will be a good place to be for a while.
Laura was one of 400 applicants and only about I think 18 people to get accepted into the program, and she’s the only new student that her advisor is taking. It probably helps that our history professor from PLU and the new professor are such good friends that Laura was able to get paired up with him, and of course the fact that her topic interested him quite a bit. She’s a smart one, that Laura… 
For me, there seem to be a pretty good number of tech jobs in the area. I’ve been looking online and there appear to be no shortage of jobs. The biggest difficulty is that a lot of them are wanting people with experience, and since I’ve just graduated a year ago and haven’t had a job in that area yet, it will be a bit of a challenge. I’m not too worried about it though and I’m sure something will come up.
But anyway that is the plan for now. Camp this summer (summe r #7 for me, I think) and then off to North Carolina. Exciting times are ahead!
