As Jeremy sets off for no less than 10 job interviews at the American Anthropological Association meeting in San Francisco, Maddy is finishing up her 6 week (legal & procedural) training to become a full-fledged Refugee Officer. Jeremy, now a card-carrying and rights-bearing "researcher" at the Library of Congress, has been spending quite a bit of time there to avoid a yapping dog and to enjoy L.O.C.'s book-to-desk delivery service. He has also risen to fame here on Capitol Hill after he was photographed jogging last month for a local magazine's piece on how to exercise on the cheap during the economic crisis. (The image attached was published in this month's Hill Rag.) Here's hoping that come next Fall, he will be running around a beautiful college campus somewhere in this great nation... maybe Kentucky, maybe up-state New York (that's the "fortune" part of the title). Meanwhile, Maddy has been learning all about the importance of acronyms and paperwork. Luckily, she's found her job as intellectually stimulating as it is paperwork-intensive. She has incredible colleagues and will be traveling to southeast Asia for 2 months at the beginning of the new year to interview Burmese refugees. While she is more than a little disappointed to be missing Jan. 20th, she will be prouder than ever to represent our country traveling abroad, and now in a very official capacity (she even has a big gold badge like in the movies!). We've also done a fair share of traveling in the past couple of months--to North Carolina to visit Kassi, New Jersey to visit the Campbells, and Texas to celebrate some dear friends' wedding. We'll be celebrating our first stateside Thanksgiving together in Arizona next week. Happy beginning-to-the-holidays to you all!
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
First the fame, then the fortune
As Jeremy sets off for no less than 10 job interviews at the American Anthropological Association meeting in San Francisco, Maddy is finishing up her 6 week (legal & procedural) training to become a full-fledged Refugee Officer. Jeremy, now a card-carrying and rights-bearing "researcher" at the Library of Congress, has been spending quite a bit of time there to avoid a yapping dog and to enjoy L.O.C.'s book-to-desk delivery service. He has also risen to fame here on Capitol Hill after he was photographed jogging last month for a local magazine's piece on how to exercise on the cheap during the economic crisis. (The image attached was published in this month's Hill Rag.) Here's hoping that come next Fall, he will be running around a beautiful college campus somewhere in this great nation... maybe Kentucky, maybe up-state New York (that's the "fortune" part of the title). Meanwhile, Maddy has been learning all about the importance of acronyms and paperwork. Luckily, she's found her job as intellectually stimulating as it is paperwork-intensive. She has incredible colleagues and will be traveling to southeast Asia for 2 months at the beginning of the new year to interview Burmese refugees. While she is more than a little disappointed to be missing Jan. 20th, she will be prouder than ever to represent our country traveling abroad, and now in a very official capacity (she even has a big gold badge like in the movies!). We've also done a fair share of traveling in the past couple of months--to North Carolina to visit Kassi, New Jersey to visit the Campbells, and Texas to celebrate some dear friends' wedding. We'll be celebrating our first stateside Thanksgiving together in Arizona next week. Happy beginning-to-the-holidays to you all!
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