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Chris and I have new jobs! They’ve both been total God-things :)
Chris was actually downsized the Christmas before we got engaged (turned out to be a blessing with the whole getting-married thing), and I’ve been half expecting to be for the last year or so.

Nope, not this year, and now that I’ve aged out of the Marshall Scholarship, not sure if I’ll be trying again soon for the Fulbright.
The process takes so much: the excitement and disappointment, four graduate applications, essays, interviews — and the real problem is a lot of the work falls on others: the teachers I [...]

for the wedding well wishes and support! We had quite the fiascos with housing and ceremony location in the days just before, but the short story is that God was (and is) amazing. (Our photographers and wedding officiant were also awesome.)

It was surreal standing on that beach going, “Five minutes, and I’ll be married — that’s [...]