January 21: Move date!
January 22-24: House hunting with Abby and her dad. Submitted only one application (on Sunday) for the bright basement we saw on Saturday.
January 24: Apartment application accepted.
January 26: Signed lease.
January 27: Started moving things in.
January 28-30: Craigslist crazy. Bought a couch, dining table and chairs, coffee table and bed.
February 1: Official move-in.
February 5: Housewarming party.
February 7: First day of work in the Office of
Communications for
NOAA Research (known as OAR). I will be working on writing briefs to keep everyone (sent to OAR to greater NOAA up to the Administrator of the Department of Commerce who decides what the White House should see) up to date on the research OAR labs are doing; developing 'feature stories' to include on the website; serving on the board that writes and creates videos for
Ocean Today; become a presenter for the
Science on a Sphere that will soon be installed at NOAA in Silver Spring; plus working on podcasts, representing the communications office at meetings and other things that come up!
February 9: Knauss Fellowship Welcome Reception at the Botanical Gardens.
February 14-16: Communications Workshop at NOAA in Silver Spring.
February 18-19:
AAAS Conference at the DC Convention Center.
wrote a feature story for the web about a sea turtle stranding event in Texas. It is now posted on the OAR News page, and should soon be featured on the front NOAA page (in that rotation at the center of the page).
