Back To School
So from the title I bet you are expecting me to talk about AJ going back to school this year. Well I will a little....he started Middle School this year! Oh my GOD!!!! I am the mother of a teenager!!! What in the world was I thinking when I had kids. I should have looked ahead and realized that eventually they would turn into these mutant forms. I always bragged what a good boy my son was and how easy he was to parent. I swear to you that something happens when they hit age 12. They biologically become different people, I am positive of it. He has become lazy, moody, all he wants to do is talk on the phone, watch tv and play on the computer. What happened to my kid that loved the outdoors, that liked to read books and play board games. Now he talks back, slams doors and thinks everyone is against him. Why oh why did they have to take my son. It must be some freakish form of body snatchers, right? Someone tell me how to get my son back!
In other news, we will be moving to Fort Collins.
HA, gotcha didn't I? No, really we will be moving eventually. Remember when all I wanted to do was be a registrar and work in a zoo? Well when I got married I gave up that dream because unfortunately Colorado is very limited on programs in the animal field. So I decided I would go back to school this fall, get a generic degree and go to work for the government earning big bucks so Tom and I and the kids could live a comfortable, allbeit predictable, existence. Well one day I was sitting in the kitchen talking to my mom and telling her I hated what I was doing for a degree and I was bored stiff and I wished I could turn back time and get my education before I did the whole kid and marriage thing. She proceeded to tell me how she had always wanted to be a forest ranger but when she was at college age she was told she couldn't because she was a woman and how she would hate to see me give up on my dreams. So I started looking at the requirements again and the education that other registrars had, etc. I found out that CSU has a bachelor's program in Environmental Communications. This degree would enable me to work in a zoo in various capacities like PR, Education, Marketing, and Registrar. Also the American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA) which is the licensing body for zoos has professional courses that it offers and one of them is Instutional Record Keeping. They happen every year and are held at zoos in various parts of the country. The course is about a week long and would look very good on a resume. So Tom and kids pack your bags, momma is gonna go to class and y'all get a vacation! Anyway all this will hopefully lead to earning my masters degree through a college that is partnering with AZA in Leadership in Zoo Studies, which will give me the ability to eventually become head registrar, curator, animal manager, etc. Any of which I would love to have as a position. Plus I learned you can go through the ARMA to become a Certified Records Manager....I didn't even know such things existed and it sounds like a nerd's dream come true! Needless to say I spend a lot of time daydreaming of the things I will be able to accomplish. Now I just have to get through the bachelor's degree.
Through all of this planning I am also trying to get a position with the Denver Zoo for a paid internship with the Registrar and I am probably going to get a work study position with the ZooKeeping program at PPCC for this Spring.
So folks things are clocking right along and my future couldn't look any rosier! So get out those notebooks and index cards and lets make a study date!!!
In other news, we will be moving to Fort Collins.
HA, gotcha didn't I? No, really we will be moving eventually. Remember when all I wanted to do was be a registrar and work in a zoo? Well when I got married I gave up that dream because unfortunately Colorado is very limited on programs in the animal field. So I decided I would go back to school this fall, get a generic degree and go to work for the government earning big bucks so Tom and I and the kids could live a comfortable, allbeit predictable, existence. Well one day I was sitting in the kitchen talking to my mom and telling her I hated what I was doing for a degree and I was bored stiff and I wished I could turn back time and get my education before I did the whole kid and marriage thing. She proceeded to tell me how she had always wanted to be a forest ranger but when she was at college age she was told she couldn't because she was a woman and how she would hate to see me give up on my dreams. So I started looking at the requirements again and the education that other registrars had, etc. I found out that CSU has a bachelor's program in Environmental Communications. This degree would enable me to work in a zoo in various capacities like PR, Education, Marketing, and Registrar. Also the American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA) which is the licensing body for zoos has professional courses that it offers and one of them is Instutional Record Keeping. They happen every year and are held at zoos in various parts of the country. The course is about a week long and would look very good on a resume. So Tom and kids pack your bags, momma is gonna go to class and y'all get a vacation! Anyway all this will hopefully lead to earning my masters degree through a college that is partnering with AZA in Leadership in Zoo Studies, which will give me the ability to eventually become head registrar, curator, animal manager, etc. Any of which I would love to have as a position. Plus I learned you can go through the ARMA to become a Certified Records Manager....I didn't even know such things existed and it sounds like a nerd's dream come true! Needless to say I spend a lot of time daydreaming of the things I will be able to accomplish. Now I just have to get through the bachelor's degree.
Through all of this planning I am also trying to get a position with the Denver Zoo for a paid internship with the Registrar and I am probably going to get a work study position with the ZooKeeping program at PPCC for this Spring.
So folks things are clocking right along and my future couldn't look any rosier! So get out those notebooks and index cards and lets make a study date!!!
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