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Introduced a significant change at work this week.

Definitely out of my comfort zone and expect to spend the month of December being yelled at by many people. But I think it’s an important, worthwhile change that will take advantage of the amazing talents, skills and passions of my coworkers.

What a way to close 2007!

I’m so close! Thought that I was done with classes this quarter but have since decided that I need one more class to finish up a “specialization” that I was supposed to have accomplished long ago.

Then, just need to do an internship and I’ll be done. For me, the internship is just one more hoop to jump through, since I already have the job I want.

Today is a paper-writing day but the weather outside is perfect. Today should be rake the leaves day!

Next year at this time, there will be no more paper-writing days!

We moved into our neighborhood in 2003, but for some reason this summer it just clicked. I feel like I really know my neighbors, and not just the folks next door.

The best way to meet my neighbors is my twice-daily walk through the neighborhood to catch the bus to work and home again. Seems like everyone is outside walking the dog or getting the newspaper or taking the kids to school… it’s gotten so I allow extra time on trash day b/c I know I’ll have so many chats as people take their cans to the curb that I’ll miss the bus! (Sometimes, a neighbor takes pity and actually drives me to the bus-stop.)

The best conversation happened last week. Everyday, I walk by a house that had a blue star posted in the front window. I knew this meant that a family member was overseas in the military. Last week, the star was gone and the woman told me that her son is safely back home from Afghanistan. I felt such a strong connection because I had silently prayed for that family every morning on my walk to the bus.

Last night, a neighbor called just to say that he hadn’t seen us around lately and was everything okay? Felt pretty good.