I remember at 27

I remember at 27 starting graduate school and meeting Brett. Both of which still affect me today (one in more enjoyable ways than the other).

As I was finishing my second year teaching both my brother and sister graduated from college. And I realized that I’d been saying that if I was still single two or three years after graduating that I’d go back and get a Masters degree. And it had been two years. So I started looking into programs and decided on the department of Teaching and Learning at the University of Utah. I started on January 10, 2006, mid-way through my fourth year teaching.

I’d said I wanted a graduate degree because of the funny hood. Dad told me I needed a better reason than that. So my better reason was because I wasn’t finished with me. I had more growing I could do. Graduate school has definitely taken me in new directions. Although the hood is fun.

At the end of that month Brett emailed me for the first time. And two months after that I wore the same sweater I wore for my first day of graduate school for the first day of our first date.

That’s been a good sweater for me, I guess. I’m still in graduate school and I’m definitely still with Brett. Although I do hope to be through with graduate school forever in another year and three weeks (nope, not counting), I’ll never be through with Brett.