A Room with a View — Tammy Salyer

The first year of living in Boulder has passed like a quiet wind. I can hardly believe how quickly the time has gone by. And now I have another benchmark to celebrate: the first two weeks at my new job.In the last year, it has been a rocky road to finding a "day job" that would bring me both the kind of satisfaction and salary I need to replace the thrills and chills that I get from my "night job" and true love, which is of course, writing. I've been in that awkward limbo of having the time to do what I want, but the fun of it being tempered by the uncertainty and instability that comes from having less income. I have to confess that I have not explored the east side of the Rockies to any great extent in the last year, despite the time that I've had. Mostly because I'm a slave to my brain and spend so many hours writing, or researching what I plan to be writing. But it's also because I lived on the western slope for a couple of years and did gads of exploring there. The beauty and majesty of western Colorado and eastern Utah still linger with me and I have a nostalgia about that area that I'm afraid to ruin. Silly, I know, but there it is.So anyway, the job thing. I've begun working for the Institute of Behavioral Science at CU and loving it. Of course, I mourn the lost hours of the day where I was previously writing, but there is definitely something to be said for having a healthy salary and, get this, my own office! Yeah, I know it's kind of a shallow thing to be enthused about, but I've never had my own office. And one with a view overlooking Boulder at that, so I'm a little titillated about it. The CU campus is incredibly lovely and such a pleasant place to work. Boulder has been really, really good to me, and I'm still on that gratitude kick I wrote about a few weeks ago.Here are a few pictures I took with my iPhone while walking around campus. Sorry, I don't know the names of the buildings yet...