Hello!
If you've returned to the blog since my hiatus - thank you! It has been almost a month since I last posted.
This was the big thing that was going on: I was in the middle of interviewing for a job while finishing up grading for the semester and attending weddings. The academic job interview process is crazy, especially because for all the hoops you have to jump through, the salary reward at the end of the road is, to put it mildly, unimpressive. All said and done, between a phone interview, a campus interview and then waiting to hear, the process took about a month. In that time I also had to grade final exams, final papers, turn in grades for 64 students, and we went to two weddings, one local and one in Boston. It was just nuts-o.
Now I'm feeling much more centered, because... I got the job! (And my grades are in and we had lots of fun at the weddings.) I'll be a full-time faculty instructor at a university that is about an hour from where we live. Boyfriend works in the opposite direction - he commutes about 25 minutes to work - so our current residence is the perfect in-between. I start in August. I'll have a steady paycheck, health insurance, dental insurance, and retirement benefits. The gig is a 9-month contract position, but I get paid all year, so I'll have three months in the summer to do what I want as far as research, writing, and whatever else is concerned! The job is not tenured, so that means I'm not guaranteed to have it forever, but as long as I do well, my contract is renewable. Ah, stability!
And now that the whole rigamarole of end-of-the-semester and job market stuff is over, I can focus on living my best life.
I thought I was going to change the title of the blog because my focus now is really on living a healthy, balanced life, but the truth of it is that I still want to lose weight, and a lot of my unhealthy habits come from modeling my actions after my eat-whatever-he-wants-doesn't-work-out-stays-thin boyfriend.
I'll have to revisit my New Year's resolutions and goals over the course of the next week, but I do know that posting everyday just isn't where my heart is at anymore. I'm not sure if I'll post on a schedule, but my idea is to post at least three times a week, about stuff that is important to me and with legitimate updates on my weight loss progress. I also am committed to tracking what I eat on MyFitnessPal and making sure I drink lots of water everyday.
This week I'll be shaking off the cobwebs and making a plan for the next few months. I look forward to sharing it all with you!
