Happy Holidays 2023

This was The Year of the Job.

Perry's college has a co-op job model, and this was the year for Perry to get co-ops. His first co-op was a smashing success, he did QA for enLabel, a small software company in downtown Boston, doing both "manual testing" and writing automated tests. He seemed to enjoy it, and he got high marks from his employer. His second co-op is a project with a professor at Wentworth along with a couple of other students, and he reports that is going reasonably well. Meanwhile, his grades are good enough that he was invited to apply to their Masters program, and he did so, and will be getting a Masters and Bachelors together as a five-year program. He starts taking some graduate-level classes this year.

Meanwhile, Jocelyn is living her dream, and joined a traveling circus.  She performed in Oregon and Northern California with Flynn Creek Circus.  The season went through October, and so she has taken a leave of absence from college. They also have a two-week run of a holiday show, so she will not be home for the December holidays. There are a lot of challenges, living in a converted truck with a makeshift kitchen, a grueling schedule, not having a fixed address (Amazon Locker to the rescue), etc. Despite these, she plans to perform with this company again next summer/fall.

Jocelyn says that she knows when she will be a grown-up: when I stop reporting on her in these letters. But I'm not sure that's ever going to happen.