Kristie Morse

Okay, so my bio reads pretty differently than most I've read on this site but here goes.

I have lived to 5 different states and 1 different country since high school:

My first two years of college were at NAU in Flagstaff, AZ but I graduated from the University of Kansas (go Jayhawks!) with a BS in Business Administration and a Spanish minor. Upon graduating, I moved to Costa Rica where I studied (kind of) and taught ESL (kind of) in San Jose for one ridiculously fun and eye opening year. After my time in the beautiful tropics, I logically chose Lubbock, Texas as my next home. I stayed there for six years and managed to get a Master's degree, four years experience in health care marketing, and even a more than remedial appreciation for college football. By year six in Lubbock though it was past time for change; I packed up the dogs headed north to the ever so popular destination of Moscow, Idaho. I call it a transition year. There I caught up with family and focused on animal assisted therapy while figuring out what I wanted to do with my life. At year end, thanks to a little soul searching and the power of monster-dot-com , I landed my perfect job with a health care organization in Oregon. I knew within hours of moving to Portland that I was home.

I love my job despite hating the degrees that brought me here:

While I loved being in school, I never liked studying business. Logically, I got an MBA. After several years in the business field wondering what I had done, I came upon my current employer. I have worked for the same organization for six years; more than five in the planning and business consulting capacity. Ready for a change, I recently switched jobs within the company and now do communications for a major research undertaking. Throughout, I have been fortunate enough to love my job much more often than not and I find it luckily ironic that my unbeloved studies led me to a career that I enjoy wholeheartedly.

I have never been married and I don't have kids:

I am single. I simply have not met the right guy... at the right time. I've had my heart broken enough to be skeptical; I've been loved / in love enough to still believe it might be worth the risk. Regardless, I cannot imagine being anywhere other than where I am today. I am inexplicably lucky with the quality of friends I have made throughout the years; I am a proud but clumsy home owner, a devoted dog owner, and a fumbling idealist. I have dabbled in guitar, mountaineering, and rock climbing but true to my roots I still come back to soccer. With three ACL surgeries to my name, I now just play coed - indoor - beer league and futsal when I get a chance but I still love it irrationally. All things considered, life is really really good.

...and the not so different:

I still have a warm place in my heart for LA and the high school years and I am still mystified by the days when sneaking out of the house at night was more appealing than sleeping.

Thank you to those who created and participated in this website. It is surreal and endearing.

That is all.

Kristie