Deborah Blum:  

Hello Classmates, The Holy Season is upon us, and for those of you with kids still in college, you know it brings the kids trickling in from school, and tuition bills for January. This year we only have one adult child left in school and she won't be home for Christmas. Jade, 26, will be spending Christmas in Curacao, a Dutch island off the coast of Venezuela, where she will be taking four hours of international law, and enjoying the sun and some SCUBA diving courtesy of her student loan. She has three semesters left in Baltimore to get her law degree and MA in Conflict Mgt and Negotiation. Hope she can get a job! Regan leaves for NYC to visit boyfriend and fellow actor, Brian, and scope out the affordable apts in the Queens, Brooklyn and Manhatten areas of NYC. She plans to move there in March 2009 and begin her search for employment as an actress and singer. Of course, she hopes to be on Broadway, but she may be waitressing at the Broadway diner for a while.LOL. She has spent the months since her graduation waitressing and appearing on Army Wives and is now in rehearsal for "Autobahn", a Neil Labute play beginning Dec 18th with the Footlight Players on Queen St, Charleston. After that she will do "Alice in Wonderland" with Jimmy Ward again to wrap up her experience in Charleston. I began a new job in the fall as a research assistant for an anthropologist from Eastern Carolina U. who is writing a book about my life - the decline of the fishing industry in Mt. Pleasant. I am doing the legwork and archival work for him here. Dr. David Griffith already has six books under his belt and I know this one will be interesting and will hopeefully have some political impact on the continued state and federal regulations that have forced many commercial fishermen out of business...Expand for more