Back to School

Yes, it is official: This fall I will be returning to school to begin the long 4 year process that is a PhD program. Once school gets going, I’ll be sure to update you regularly on all the classroom happenings, but until then here is a short summary of what has been going on in my life for the past couple of month.

June and July were spent at the University of Kansas working with the Duke TIP summer program. I know, Duke is in North Carolina and KU is in, well, Kansas. Duke rents space there in the summer. Also, why is the University of Kansas shortened to KU instead of UK? Furthermore, if you ever make the mistake of calling it UK, people at KU will look at you like you’re the idiot.

The last two weeks have been spent settling into my new digs and getting ready for school. So far I’ve all but spent my entire summer paycheck on housing, school fees and books. It’s been worth it! Seriously, I’m real excited to have the chance to go back to school for one more go around.

As for my extra curricular activities, I’ll be hitting the road as soon as August 29th when I’ll be in Connecticut for a freshmen orientation. After that I’ll have about a month off before I’m wrapped up for the entire month of October and Domestic Violence Awareness Month. I’m hoping all this speaking will jump-start the book sales as they have been a little slow through the summer months. With a little more work and some good PR, I should be able to reach that magic number of sales…that being, whatever it takes to break even on the publishing cost.

On a side note, I finally got around to watching the first 3 original Star Wars movies last week. They were all right. Also, I’m training for another marathon on October 3rd in St. Louis – what a stupid idea that was. You’d think after the first marathon I would have learned my lesson. 

Hope everyone had a great summer and I’ll be checking in more frequently now that I’m back home.

Much Love

Josh

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