Sunday, September 20, 2009

Valued Friends

A little over three years ago we moved to Arizona so I could attend graduate school at the University of Arizona. Previously, my wife and I had been attending Brigham Young University. During that time we met the Yancey family, and I even participated in the production of a play that Jason Yancey directed. He was a year ahead of me in school and ended up going to the University of Arizona a year ahead of me. So, for the last three years I have been the beneficiary of someone who figuratively took me under his wing, helping me prepare for deadlines and deal with the stresses of graduate school. Since he was a year ahead of me, I could always go to him if I had questions about classes I was taking, paperwork that I needed to turn in, or to learn about deadlines that were occasionally so "transparent" that you would never know about them unless someone told you about them. Now that Jason has graduated and the Yanceys have moved on, we are left wondering how we ever would have managed without them. Hopefully, we can be the same type of friend to others as they were to us. So, thanks, Jason and Aleece, for being such good friends. Thanks also to our many other friends. We hope you're all doing well!!!

2 comments:

M said...

You guys are so lucky to have had such good friends! You'll be there soon. Do you know where you want to end up?

Arrow said...

We would like to end up somewhere in the mountain west--Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Idaho, Oregon, or Washington--but in those states there aren't many jobs that fit my area of study (i.e. just one according to the MLA jobs list). We'll take whatever we can get though.