The Turners Go To Washington Tuesday January 5, 2010

Alright! So I really don’t want to continue filling this site with all these emo/personal posts, but it’s kinda time to let the cat out of the bag for a wee bit of secret to start 2k10.

So here’s a bit of the back story.

For the past few years, my fiancée wife has been working with an impressive resiliency to try and get into Law School. We’ve applied to schools in Canada and the US and unfortunately none of our options ever panned out. So in March of this year, we made a conservative effort to look at different options instead of Law School. You know think outside of the box a bit. We started weighing the pros and cons of a 4 year law program and 2 years of pre-practise and our own goals as a couple. It became pretty clear that the life of a lawyer was beginning to look a little less appealing. So we started to explore different programs and through some conversations with a family friend we learned about a little school in Fairfax, Virginia called George Mason University. Now some of you may remember them from their glorious final four run in 2006 and others may have to look at a map and go where the F$%k is that. (It’s a suburb of Washington D.C.)

Anyways, at this little school is a little program called the Institution for Conflict Analysis and Resolution. After some discussion, we decided to apply and after a frantic week in October, her application for Spring 2010 was sent away.

Fast forward to Dec 12th (The Monday before our wedding) and I received a cryptic early morning forward from my future wife, saying read this. Upon further investigation it was revealed that Caitlin was accepted to the Masters of Conflict Analysis and Resolution program at ICAR for the Spring of 2010…

That’s Good Right?

That’s what I thought, as I air-pumped my fists at my computer.

But there was one problem… It would appear that in Virginia, January 19th is the new spring.

Ooo That’s a bit of a problem.

So to our dismay we suddenly realized that we had a little over 4 weeks to figure how to get married, enjoy Christmas and ship my beautiful wife off to Tobacco Country.

Some of you maybe be putting things together now and figuring out why we’ve been so quiet over the past few weeks. So to wrap the big secret up in to a nice little nut shell – The Turners are moving to Washington D.C..

So far our plan is to have my lovely wife there ready for school in less than a week and then I will be departing in a U-Haul in early March/Late February. With plans to set-up shop before SXSW 2010.

There are so many emotions attached to this opportunity and the speed of it all still has us in a bit of shock. There’s the excitement of my wife’s personal success and the opportunities in a new region … But there are also the insecurities that come with every risk and the sadness of leaving our friends and family and the community in yyc. It’s all very exciting and very overwhelming … and these are all emotions I’ll probably touch upon in later posts.

For those curious about the large white elephant in the corner eating peanuts and listening to his iPod – Don’t worry the corporation will still be alive and kicking. Actually, it is our hope that this move will finally allocate myself the wherewithal to finally take the company where I want it to go. I’ll be working the company’s magic in both cities but more importantly for those in the know … that’s right kids, no more dual jobs. Instead, I will be focusing more of my time and efforts on solely working on Armadillo and freelancing web design.

Sidenote: If you are looking for web design help … Armadillo Studios is your company… wink… wink… nudge… nudge. Please don’t make me beg.

So with 20-10 underway we are happy to announce that The Turners are going to Washington … so stay tuned. things will definitely be changing on the old overdrive… yet again.

Categories: The-Personnal, the-dc, The Future, The Future Turners Wedding, The Humourous, The Site

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