update and such

figured that it has been a while since some of you have heard anything from me, so I decided to give you the low down on what's new in my life. As you may infer from the email address, I am now working with the KY United Methodist Homes for Children and Youth. I was originally working for their emergency shelter programs as a Youth Counselor providing direct care for youth between the ages of 9-17 with some sort of legal or familial problems. Now I am the Case Manager for the Independent Living Program at the Family Services office. My job basically is to catch up with my 16-21 year old clients and make sure that they are progressing on their goals for independent living (money management, cleaning and hygiene, employment, social relations, etc.). So far it has been interesting. I can see already that I like this position better than direct care.

As far as my life outside of work, everything is going ok. Chuck and I are still in Owensboro, KY, after traveling for 3 months in Guatemala. He has recently been accepted to some of the grad schools he applied to for studying Landscape Architecture and looks to start classes in the Fall. I plan on taking the year off from school work and looking into grad programs for College Student Affair, preferrably with an emphasis in Service Learning. For those of you who know my dad, we've recently gotten good news from Vanderbilt. He is now officially on the active liver transplant list and has a chance of getting a liver anytime now. The bad part of it is that this means that his health is going to rapidly deteriorate and he's facing many hospital stays for complications both before and after transplant. I recently was able to meet his liver doctor at Vandy and am quite sure that he is in very capable hands, so that is very promising.