It looks like Houston

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After a lot of waiting, and intermittent emails from Dr. Melosi insisting he had not forgotten about me, I got an offer from Houston for a research assistantship. It includes a tuition waiver (the big expense) and a monthly stipend. I will be doing various assistant-type tasks for the Center for Public History. In other words, I'll be working for Dr. Melosi. I don't know the value of the stipend, yet. Dr. Melosi gave me the email addy of the program director with instructions to contact her. I immediately did, but have yet to hear anything back from her. So, I'm back to waiting. But at least now I can work on my application package and know that I'm going to Houston. Technically, there's a chance I wouldn't get accepted. After all, I've done this all backwards and have not actually applied, yet. I sent Dr. Melosi an official transcript of my studies here at UNF, a writing sample, my CV, and a short personal statement. If he didn't think I'd get accepted, would he put all this effort into arranging funding for me? And to assure me that if I don't get a teaching assistantship starting Fall 2011, that he'd make sure I had funding to continue at Houston? No. So I'm celebrating this as an acceptance and going forward accordingly.

This means I'm moving to Houston in January . . . alone. Scary. I mean, I'm not scared to be alone, and I'm perfectly capable of taking care of myself. But it's scary to think about not seeing Steve everyday. I learned last summer when I was in England that I miss him terribly when we're not together. Being apart a week or two? No problem. For months on end? BIG problem. With any luck, I'll have a schedule that provides a 3 or 4-day weekend. Then I'll just come every few weeks and have Steve time. Or so I think. We'll see how reality messes that plan up come January.

So Houston is my future. My present, however, includes finishing my paper from last semester (the one for which I received an "I"), doing the cosmetic changes for my thesis before it goes through it's final round of approval, doing homework and another paper for my current (and last) master's class, and graduating. So I should probably quit blogging and get working.

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