Yesterday I posted an update on my future plans. Now, it’s time to update my parents’ future plans.

Both my mom and my dad have declared their intention to retire as Connecticut state employees on June 1. They’re taking advantage of the “early retirement” package that the state is offering as part of its budget-cutting strategy.

This has been in the works for a while, but my mom officially announced her plans yesterday in a letter to the human resources department at Eastern Connecticut State University, and my dad followed suit today with his employer, the Secretary of the State.

My mom is already looking for teaching/professorial jobs in New York City, and it is conceivable that this may lead to an eventual (or even not-so-eventual) relocation of the family’s “home base” from Newington to Manhattan (where we already have an apartment, which right now is used primarily by my mom, primarily on weekends). That, in turn, would have major implications for Adollya. (Sorry, the Adollya webpage is out of date; Mr. Bun is president now.)

But that’s mere speculation, and much remains to be determined. Even my parents’ retirements won’t even be totally official and final until a bunch more paperwork is turned in. (There’s government bureaucracy for you. You have to turn in lots of paperwork even if you just want to stop working and go home! :)

What is certain is that the next month is shaping up as an incredibly eventful one:

May 16: I earn two Bachelor’s degrees from USC.
May 17: My mom earns a Master’s degree from Pratt.
June 1: Both of my parents retire from state service.

Somewhere in there, I’m going to figure out where I’m going to law school, too. :)

NOTE: Originally, before I fixed the typo, the statement above the list of dates said “What is certain is that the next month is shaping up as an incredibly eventual one.” Hence my dad’s comment. :)