I’m still here too.? I am not renovating anything right now, although I am waiting to hear back from a carpenter about installing custom bookshelves and I had my entire HVAC replaced the very beginning of the year (which was apparently a very easy process; Baird managed the whole thing and they were done in under 3 days, including replacing a bunch of ductwork).?

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I’ve spent the last 6 months in the throes of college applications, but they and auditions are finally, as of last weekend, done.? So far we’ve only heard 1 ? “yeses” from schools, but it’s early days yet.? The half is because a lot of schools do artistic admits and academic separately, and one of her safety schools gave her an almost instant artistic admission.? She’s also been admitted to the Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts, and barring hating it (trying to get flights organized to take her to visit) or being admitted to a couple of the schools we’re still waiting to hear from, I expect I’m sending my kid to college in the UK next year.

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Boys are still working on finding research jobs to help them get into grad school.?

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Turns out mindless socks are a pretty great thing to take to auditions, so I’ve been knitting a lot of those.

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Looking forward to moving in the spring/early summer and hopefully a successfully empty nest in the fall.

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Melisande

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