A lot has changed in the last month... a lot. For starters, I'm not an unemployed, slightly crazed graduate student. I've been hired.. full time... by the project. I know! I could hardly believe it either... but it's the TRUTH. I was hired to open an office right here in Fargo-Moorhead focused on getting some constituent activity up and running here in the Red River Valley. It's pretty exciting stuff, if I do say so myself. I started at the beginning of the month and so far so good. Things are coming together and we're putting together the necessary plans to ensure that we're doing things the right way. I'm also working to schedule Patrick's fall speaking tour... which means I've been doing lots of google searches and mapquest examining to get a better idea of routing options for him. Which also means, If you know of somewhere that would be interested in having him speak, we ask that you are able to cover the cost of getting him there. Any more that you are able to provide is wonderful and will go directly toward victims of human trafficking... but that's a whole other story. Let's suffice it to say that things have been great and while I'm still working to figure things out, I feel blessed to have the opportunity to work with an organization I've grown to love and respect. I'm sure there will be more updates about this in the near future.. but there are other things to discuss.
On a whole other front... I'm taking hunter's safety. Again, you read that correctly. It's WAY more difficult than any one lets on and if someone passed the test when they were 12 they are not qualified to discuss the difficulty of the course with someone who has held a gun only twice in their life (me). There is so much technical jargon and the night of the hands-on practicing scared the living daylights out of me thanks to the instructor, Peggy, who seemed to have it out for me. She was not into explaining to me how the lever gun hammer half cock safety functioned. She just let me fail repeatedly... and when I say repeatedly... I mean repeatedly. I will be sure to alert you all of my successes and/or failures when the test is completed on the 26th of july. Cross your figers that I am able to accomplish this mighty task at hand.
It is already 10:30 and I must be getting to bed. Michael nudged me into signing up for a half marathon in Detroit Lakes in September... and that means that I must rise at the crack of dawn to ensure that I make it to the gym in time to run the necessary number of miles to prepare me for the race. Wish us luck and I'll try to be back soon!
On a whole other front... I'm taking hunter's safety. Again, you read that correctly. It's WAY more difficult than any one lets on and if someone passed the test when they were 12 they are not qualified to discuss the difficulty of the course with someone who has held a gun only twice in their life (me). There is so much technical jargon and the night of the hands-on practicing scared the living daylights out of me thanks to the instructor, Peggy, who seemed to have it out for me. She was not into explaining to me how the lever gun hammer half cock safety functioned. She just let me fail repeatedly... and when I say repeatedly... I mean repeatedly. I will be sure to alert you all of my successes and/or failures when the test is completed on the 26th of july. Cross your figers that I am able to accomplish this mighty task at hand.
It is already 10:30 and I must be getting to bed. Michael nudged me into signing up for a half marathon in Detroit Lakes in September... and that means that I must rise at the crack of dawn to ensure that I make it to the gym in time to run the necessary number of miles to prepare me for the race. Wish us luck and I'll try to be back soon!
