Second paper

Well, I'm beginning to wrap it up now. A first draft at least. I should be able to turn it in early next week. A bit behind schedule, but nothing too terrible. I'm going to have an appendix M on this paper.

The first one I can hopefully have a second draft in this week. This one will be ahead of schedule, so I guess it balances out. I've tried to find some statistics on Ghana's environment for the paper, but have proved to be rather unsuccessful. I think I might have found some, but I think I may well just stick it in a final draft rather than wait until I can get the statistics to put in the paper. It won't impact my paper, just have another source for the paper. I'm still hoping I can get this stuff done by Spring Break.

Which reminds me...I'm thinking I'm going to nix both Hungary and Mexico options. They just don't seem to be working out. No worry, here are some tentative plans:

1. Try for a "last minute" trip to some yet to be determined city. I think there can be some good vacation packages (mainly just a flight and a hotel) to some fun cities. I think I might like Chicago since I'm vaguely familiar with the city. I certainly know I can navigate their El.
2. Try for a trip to Charleston and/or Savannah. If I played my cards right, I could be in Savannah for the St. Patrick's day parade there. This one could also be done fairly last minute.
3. If all else fails, I could try for a trip to either Nashville or St. Louis. I have people in both cities, and both could be made in a day, and fairly last minute. It may well too be my last good chance for either city. I always guess I could do both. Nashville would be a good halfway point on a trip back.
4. If ALL else fails, I suppose I could spend some time in Prattville as well (if I go to Nashville, I may well end up in Prattville for a couple of days anyway).

So that's what's happening now. Also Kerry's "Baby Pinky", is due here in just a few days. I'm "on-call". Funny thing: My cell phone rang at 7ish on Sunday morning. I thought it might be Kerry or Paul. No one ever calls my cell phone--I like it that way--but I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter, away to my cell phone, I flew like a flash. Alas, however, it was a number which I did not recognize, so I went back to bed. Since I got no voice mail notice, nor did my apartment phone ring, I figured that all it was was a wrong number.

Work is work. Job search consists of nothing much right now. I did get a job inquiry from a company in Madison, WI. They saw my resume on Monster.com. I'm not interested in the job right now, but it was good to see a response within a couple of days of posting the resume. I might be interested in the job in the future. Who knows. I also saw a temporary job with the National Park Service. It's a "Transportation" scholar, and is given potential for 3, 6, and 12 month assignments to develop sustainable transport within the National Parks. Needing a letter of recommendation to accompany my resume, and a statement of purpose, I'm thinking I'll get Dr. Weber to write me one. Reasoning: He's the transportation geographer in the department, his father was/is a park ranger at Death Valley NP. I'm not saying I'd get "stationed" at Death Valley necessarily, but rather someone who has experience with the NPS, and/or knows someone in the NPS might be able to secure me a position a bit more easily. This certainly intrigues me. I think with my creditentals, I might be a good candidate for the job. We'll see. Once I get my application stuff in, I should hear from them in, say, April, then get an assignment shortly after Graduation.