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JM Notes From Last Week
Last Monday (a week ago yesterday), JM accepted a new job. It's closer (shorter commute), it's better pay, and we know someone who's been working there for the past 2.5 years. JM is really looking forward to the new job. His first day will be March 27. Tuesday (the next day), his current job flew him to New York on a project. He and the team were originally scheduled to fly back Thursday morning. Three-and-a-half grueling days later, JM flew back around noon on Friday, leaving part of the team to wrap-up the project.


Meanwhile, Back in Virginia
My week was progressing more or less normally. Work during the days. Tuesday evening was clogging, but without JM there. Wednesday evening was youth group. At the last minute, the main leaders ended up being late. Since JM was out of town, they asked me to get youth group started with prayer before they arrived.

Thursday afternoon, the majority of the clogging group headed down to Tennessee for a clogging workshop. As a couple of the few experienced dancers not going to the workshop, our instructor for the beginner class asked JM and me to teach the class. As JM was delayed in his return from New York, I ended up teaching the class myself. This was only the second week of class, which I would consider more challenging to teach than some of the later classes. I suppose partly because I never took the first 3-5 weeks of the class. Instead, I got all of that instruction in a one-hour make-up class. How do you spend an hour teaching students "Step Rock Step" when they already know "Rock Step?"

Weekend in PA
JM drove straight from the airport to pick up Jer. JM made a very brief stop at his place to re-pack for the weekend before he picked me up to head to his parents' home in PA for the wedding. No, not my wedding. His sister's wedding. The wedding was simple, but very nice. As she only had about 4 weeks to pull it all together, I was very impressed with the amount she had accomplished. It did not at all look or feel like a wedding that had been thrown together or rushed. The number of friends and family that they had at the wedding was a showing of the support that they experienced in planning the wedding. And hopefully, Katie and her husband will continue to feel that support in the coming weeks, months, and years. The same as any newly married couple, they will have challenges in adjusting to their life together. As a couple that is marrying so young, the statistics suggest that they may have a harder time of making the marriage work. My prayers are very much with them.

I was working on a cross stitch project for them as a wedding gift. I didn't have it finished before the wedding on Saturday, but managed to get it done just before I walked out the door on Sunday morning.

Meanwhile, Back in Virginia
While we were in PA, an e-mail reached us that AC was in a rollerblading accident and was in the emergency room with a possibly broken nose. We didn't hear any more until Sunday evening, after we returned to Virginia. AC did not break her nose. As she has aspirations as an opera singer, she is VERY thankful it was not a broken nose. She did break some other facial bones, including around the eye. The Monday visit to the opthamologist brought good news that there does not appear to be any damage to the eye itself. A visit with a plastic surgeon on Wednesday will determine if she needs any surgery.

And Back at Work
After a weekend of play, I came back to work on Monday anticipating a campus visit from a candidate for the position of president of PHC. I only participated in a very small portion of his events for the day. After feedback is received from everyone involved, a decision will be made at the PHC Board meeting in April. Around my piece of the campus visit, the normal questions from library users, and few more questions than usual from student workers (because Alyssa wasn't here to answer them), I was able complete a report for the board. I still need to make some changes, but at least I think I've got most of it completed. Now to wrap-up the accreditation self-study for the library.