So EXCITED! We are suppose to have beautiful weather and Lori is coming home for a weekend of lessons. I so need this right now. I just downloaded the Ebook for the WAO and have started working through the exercises. Lots of great stuff. I am one of those that likes to read and do and read and do. would go crazy if I tried to read the whole thing and not do as I read. I also just bought the mary ellen barry dvd on broad jumps and am looking to purchase a sturdy broad jump. I need to help deuce and figure out why he crashes them when it is not a straight in and out approach. I know we don't train it enough but it needs to be part of our training from now on. Stella is going to start her journey with running contacts this weekend and I hope with this baby due in June that I can get through the first part of training before I have to take much time off. She has finally shown me the body control she needs for this so I am excited to see what this brings. I wasn't really successful in teaching Deuce a running a-frame but I feel more educated now and more ready to give this 100%.
On another more solemn note, we found out this week that our lab did not receive funding on this cycle. Our grant was denied. I have very mixed feelings. We have enough money if we unload practically everyone to keep me around till december. This means two part time techs are being let go(one has been here 20+ years and one just had a baby and has three kids at home) and two grad students are being turned over to the school. I think they will continue to get to do research in our lab, but their salaries will come from the school and not the remaining grant money. One part of me wants to panic and scream why. Why has all of this bad stuff being happening to me since like October? But the other part of me says God has a plan, I just have to sit back and relax and let him guide me. I do have a job opportunity but it would be now and I am not sure that I need something right now. It would be teaching at a tech college which i would enjoy, but alot of prep work for that first year that I may or may not be able to do with a new born baby. After much thought and consideration and prayer, I have decided to pass on this. I hope that I am not dead wrong in doing so. My boss is going to resubmit the grant with more revisions and rework and me and the remaining grad student will probably have to learn lots of new techniques to get up to speed with the rest of the world i guess. We are one of very few labs that do what we do so we are pretty unique in our protocals and procedures but we can join the main stream on some things which should help funding wise.
Once again as is with the baby coming, I am left with alot of not sures in my life. Not sure if I can continue to show, to teach, to do the sport I love, but I am determined and where there is a will there is a way:)
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