Life Update

It's been forever since I've blogged here. I have good excuses. The last time I blogged was in May, just before I moved across the state to intern at Allrecipes.com in Seattle. I had a great experience there learning about editing and marketing recipes, but I missed my husband (who was still living in Spokane), and I was ready to come home in August.

When I got back, I jumped into school with both feet. At the same time as taking classes, I was working four jobs: An internship with Defending Dissent Foundation, a research assistantship, my office job, and an editor position with my college newspaper.

I had the awesome opportunity to travel to New Orleans in October to attend a national collegiate media conference. At the conference, I was able to meet Mary Beth Tinker, a hero in the student speech rights community.

Nothing could have prepared me for what happened when I got back. The morning of my cross-country flight home, I woke up before the sun rose. I gathered my things, took a taxi to the airport with my colleagues, got on the plane. We had a quick layover in Minneapolis, where I called my husband.

The entire plane ride between Minnesota and Washington, I was thinking about how excited I was to go home to my husband. It was our 6-year dating anniversary, and we were supposed to go to dinner when I got back and then spend the evening cuddled up and watching movies.

When I walked through my front door, my husband was sitting in the living room looking deflated. "We need to talk," he said.

"What's wrong?" I replied.

"I'm leaving you. I moved out while you were gone."

Needless to say, my life has been turned upside down. That said, I'm still the same person. I'm still a driven woman. I'm still passionate about civil rights. I'm still in love with cooking.

I've started a second blog to chronicle my experience as a young divorcee. You can find that here, if you're interested. I'll probably talk about my experience on this blog from time to time, but I'd rather keep this blog more focused on food, budgets, and lifestyle.

That said, I'll be posting a couple recipes tonight, because I'm back.