So you'll be pleased to know my pierced ears are healing well. The new apartment is starting to seem homier. There have been some maintanence issues, including a shifty water heater and a leaky toilet. Actually, the toilet was spraying water from under the tank that leaked into my basement. When I asked the landlord if he wanted help wiping up the water in the basement he shrugged his shoulders and said he'd just let it dry up. Whatever, it's his property.

I got a job promotion already. My supervisor resigned a couple weeks after I started so my employer, CEMML, asked if I wanted her job. I was not really sure what all she did, but it was a nice raise so I took it. I officially started on Tuesday and so far so good.

In other news, my car was damaged in a hail storm earlier this month and deemed a total loss. It has some other engine problems so I am taking the insurance company's money and getting a new car. I should be driving a blue 2003 Honda Accord shortly.

So it's been a while since my last post. It has been an eventful month. I graduated from WSU - yippee. My mom, grandma and aunt came to witness the event. Good times. I went to Wisconsin to visit Jeanette and Mike. It was great to see you guys in your element, and what a nice element you have chosen. It was quite an eventful couple of days. The first day Nette and I were looking at fabulous earrings and commenting on how we could not wear them because we don't have pierced ears. Then it dawned on us that we might as well get that whole ear piercing thing over with. We went to Claire's, squeezed a stuffed bear and came out with silver studs in our ears. One day Mike and Nette and I went to the Wisconsin Dells and took a boat tour. Very nice rock formations. I should really put pictures of all this stuff in this post, but I'm too lazy right now to wait for them to upload.

I have officially begun the next segment of my life. I started work last week at Fort Riley in north central Kansas as an archaeologist. Fort Riley is really big (101,000 acres) so they have seven archaeologists on staff to handle all the work. I just began last week so I don't have much to say right about it right now. I am still trying to get a grasp for what all my job will entail. I like the people I work with so far and that is a bonus.

When I took the job at Fort Riley, I knew I would not be able to drive 2 hours to and from work every day. I now rent a small apartment in Abilene, KS which is only 25 minutes from work and an hour and a half from "home." I go back to Wichita on the weekends. It is a real lifestyle change. I have a month-by-month lease on the apartment so either I will get used to this or I will quit my job and look for something closer to Wichita.