The Pete & Julie Times

Employment

Julie has permanent work

Minitex Reference, where Julie has been working for the last 3 years, underwent some changes and was able to give Julie a permanent, full-time position. Two of her colleagues had left during the summer, leaving Julie and her boss to handle the work load of 3 full-time people. The organization decided that to attract the best people, they would need to have 3 full-time people rather than 1 full- and 4 part-timers. After a 5 month search a new person has been found, so things are beginning to become sane.

Pete tutoring

Pete is working part-time as a math tutor for the University’s athletic program. He says that many people think he must be dealing with boneheads, but he has found the athletes, like all students, to be distributed across the spectrum from those who need lots of help to those who only ask the hardest of the hard questions.

Education

Pete back in School

This September Pete left his exciting job as a grunt clerical worker for Western National Insurance to pursue what has been a dream of his for the last 10 years: a BA in German. He expects to finish in Spring 1994 and then begin study for a PhD in Linguistics. Where is as yet unknown.

Julie also takes a course

Meanwhile, Julie was also back in academic mode. Since her dancing and other commitments were slightly reduced during the fall, she decided to take a first quarter German course (wouldn’t want to have free time or anything). Between that and Pete’s practicing for his phonetics class, she heard a lot of strange noises, but it will be awhile, bevor sie Deutsch weiter lernen kann.

Weather

Cold. Snow on the ground. Did we mention the cold?

Travel

Here, there, everywhere

In addition to dancing at the annual Midwest Morris Ale in Bloomington IN and the Chicago Ale, we left the country and went to Winnipeg to dance with the Winnipeg Mountain Morris Dancers (there is actually a mountain-about 10 feet, er 3 metres, high).

We also went to Tempe AZ to visit Pete’s sister Sarah and her husband Chuck. We went up to the Grand Canyon to pick Chuck up from an extended hike and heard the story of his hike which included dehydration and being rescued from it. Then we toured the Canyon and other parts of northern Arizona and visited other friends in the area; Julie got to see Pete’s boyhood homes in Tucson.

Pete’s turn to see new territory came when we went to Long Island for Thanksgiving with Julie’s mom and Grandmama and to French Lick IN for Christmas with her Dad and Candace.

Weddings of Julie’s relatives have inspired further travel. Julie’s cousins Edie and Phyllis Fuchsman had weddings in Oberlin OH within 5 weeks of each other, and her brother Ricky is getting married in January to Geneva Craven, who does computers and Renaissance Festivals (including sewing costumes and her wedding dress). The wedding will be in Florida.

Automotive

The Georgetown is no longer with us, having reached the end of a long and useful life, fortunately long enough to make it to the junk yard without a tow. Daisy, our brown, 1978 Toyota now has a smaller, look-alike sibling, Dijit-a 1982 Plymouth Horizon.

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 Friday, October 28, 2005
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