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Hi.

It's been a long week and I'm tired. Working does that to you I guess. I've been home for almost 2 months, just under actually, but I haven't officially worked since August 31st. Since then I've been busy job searching, wedding-ing, Montana-ing and overall relaxing, I've been woken up to the demands that a fulltime job has on one's body.

For anyone who doesn't know (although I'm sure the finger full of people who happen to read this already do), I was offered a position with the Grand Rapids Art Museum. My official title is "Educator of Youth and Family Programs" which basically means that I'm in charge of all the events and programs that fall under either of these categories...The real nail biter of it all is that the woman I'm replacing has a BFA in Art Education and a grad. certification in Museum studies...where she might have interned at the Getty. I'm not exactly sure....either way, she's got major qualifications and pretty much built the ed. program into what it is today. Oh well. The other thing that concerns me is the Director of Education is on maternity leave and my remaining two colleagues of our department are also very new. This is good and bad: together, we can idea-storm and steer the program in new and improved ways that will benefit the public, but none of us really know what we're doing.

This is where I work:

The big circle is Maya Lin's Ecliptic. She is famous for being the Yale undergrad who designed the Vietnam Memorial in DC. Behind it is the beautiful museum. My office is on the right side of the building.

Anyway. I'm tired. My feet hurt. My eyes and brain are generally mush by the end of the day and I'm spending buco bucks on gas (although it beats paying rent). Yes, I'm still rockin and rollin' in the Koeman household. It's awesome. Free food, heat and company. I'm off on Sundays and Mondays so tonight is my time to partayyyyyy...after a nap of course. In store for tonight: pizza, vino and GUITAR HEROOOOO.