Quick recap from Monday: I’m a disabled vet. I got vocational rehabilitation. I took the next-to-last work study job on campus, setting copy for the campus newspaper. I’ve just been offered and accepted a “promotion” to staff reporter. Unbeknownst to me, my advisor has bigger plans.

That should just about get you up to speed. Now let’s fast forward to six weeks later.

I was asked to go to Omaha with my classmates for a journalism workshop hosted by the prestigious Poynter Institute. I had a lot of fun, and I learned quite a bit of good stuff. But on the way back to Boone, Jan apparently saw her next opportunity.