45 minutes

Kate is home in Iowa for the weekend to go our friend Jordan’s wedding and I’m here in Watertown typing.  Some good news happened last week – Kate got offered a full 4th grade teaching position at Newman Elementary in Needham.  This is the school she’s been working at for the past two years as a 5th grade teaching assistant.  She had gone through an extensive interview process and just a few weeks ago was told that she didn’t get the job.  After that, she was pretty bummed out about the school and we were ready to head further west in MA so I could be closer to grad school in Storrs.  After some consideration, Kate decided to take the job as her cousin Shelly is also a 4th grade teacher there and she would really like to work with her.  I’m really excited for her about the job as it’s a great school with a lot of great people and there aren’t too many times in life when you can work with a family member.

This is all great, but it changes our plans considerably about moving.  We want to be closer to the city now so Kate won’t have a huge drive but also far enough out so my UConn commute isn’t too terrible.  We’ve settled on the Auburn/Oxford area as it’s right on the Mass. Turnpike and is centrally located… only a 45 minute commute for her to Needham, 45 minutes for me to school in Storrs, and 45 minutes for me to work in Lexington.  I think I’m going to hate the 45 minute time interval (is it possible to hate an amount of time?).

While Kate’s in Iowa for the weekend, I’m scoping out apartments.  The first one up tomorrow is a townhouse in North Oxford located on a golf course.  The description sounds great and the rent’s cheaper than we’re paying here so I’m really looking forward to the trip.  Of course, North Oxford is 45 minutes away from here.  Stupid 45 minutes.

-Bob

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