OH to ID

Just a girl from a suburb of CLE moving my life to Idaho. These are my adventures of graduate school through my masters research in stream ecology.

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Yellow Pine 2017: What is denim may never dry. #Baxter100 #DateNightDerek #JelloPine #FreeBird (at Yellow Pine, Idaho)

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Had a great time at #SFS17 listening to and sharing ideas and ongoing work on freshwater systems. Such a great meeting, hope to make it back again! (at Raleigh Convention Center)

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A dead body? Or me snorkeling down the Fort Hall bottoms?

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A picture of my #CalibrationWednesday on #InternationalWomensDay! So proud to be a woman in STEM trying to make a difference for our world. Keep it up ladies!

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I'm going to try to keep this updated with some of the cool things I'm doing with my Masters Research at ISU. Here is a picture of my furthest upstream site on Marsh Creek where I am studying stream metabolism!

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Getting Ready

6.7.16

With only 1 month before I get ready to make my big move I have decided that blogging my adventures might be a good way to reflect upon these next two years.  I don’t really know what is in store in the next few years, but I know it is going to be like nothing I ever imagined.  I am actually so excited for the unknown, which is something I usually dread. 

I have pretty much done nothing packing wise yet, as all of my stuff from UD is still in my parents basement at the moment (sorry, mom and dad!). I am not really sure how I am supposed to fit all of my stuff in the 2009 Ford Focus I am driving from CLE to Pocatello, but that is a problem for month-from-now Sarah.  Today, though I bought a pair of hiking boots which will get broken in during my trip to the smokies this weekend, so I guess that is an accomplishment.  

Carolyn (my roommate) and I have found a house though so yay to not being homeless (And, no, it is not on a Potato farm...).  We are both working for the same graduate advisor, so this will either be perfect or just terrible.  But she seems like a perfectly sane person, so I think I am in the clear.  

I still don’t think I am ready to accept that I am not going back to UD in the fall with all of my friends, or that I am moving 26+ hours away from Adam and my family.  I have a terrible feeling I will be super homesick for a while, but I am just hoping to find friends and activities to keep myself busy.  There are a lot of things that make me nervous about leaving my life here behind, but I am just trying to convince myself that Idaho is where I am supposed to be for a while.

Follow my adventures as I try to make Idaho my Idahome!