Change of Plans

Well, I think I'll start by apologizing to Jas and Heidi. I would often shake my head with how often you seemed to change your minds or wanted to change your minds. I have flirted with a few different ideas all along, but always convinced myself that I would just stay the course and finish what I started. I have come to grips with not getting in to vet school and with not finding a very good and enticing job in Fort Collins for a year. I'm sure people would love to hire me, they just don't know how they would go on living without me after one short year. Anyway, Sherrie has good insurance, we've almost met our yearly deductible, and I have a lot of horses to shoe here. These are all good reasons to stay, but I went and talked to a professor and he told me to get into a Master's program and re-evaluate after two years. At USU there are graduate programs called Departmental Assistantships, which means basically that they give you free tuition and a $1000-$1500 monthly pay for being TA or working in one of their labs. He told me that the positions are probably already filled, but even if they were that He would pay me instead. He said he has lots of money for his lab and would love to have me. So I talked to the Department Head and he said that there are actually 2 positions still open. Either way, my school would be paid for and I would have some money on top of that, plus all of the horses I still have to shoe. He said that the last guy to leave his lab with his PhD is making around $200,000 working with a company that does genetic engineered embryo transfers. Not bad eh? So if you are all making fun of us then feel free. We still think this is the best thing. There is a song that says something like, "If you want to hear God laugh, tell him your plans." This probably wont be our first change of plans either, but at least it's a start.