Day 6/356 2.3.09

Day 6/356 2.3.09
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my current favorite song: daylight by matt and kim

365 days project: days 1-5

here is the moment you've been waiting for: pictures! woo! okay, contain your excitement and check out the photos. if you click on them they link back to my flickr photo page where you can view them larger and check out lots of other photos i've taken.

day 5 - 2.2.09


day 4 - 2.1.09


day 3 - 1.31.09


day 2 - 1.30.09


day 1 - 1.29.09

new things i've read section

i added a new section to my little side bar; a list of all the books i have read in 2009. hopefully with the books i'm reading listed for the public, i will have more motivation to read more and actually think critically about what i'm reading.

so the first book i read this year was called Philosophy Made Simple by
Robert Hellenga. it is a novel about a 50 something widower named rudy who leaves chicago to start a new life as an avocado rancher. i chose the book in attempt to pick up a few tidbits about philosophy while still getting the entertainment of a fictional story. the book turned out to have less about philosophy than i expected; rudy just carries around a philosophy book that was a gift from one of his three daughters. overall, i still enjoyed the book; it was definitley a romantic book (which i wasn't expecting) but the ending wasn't predictable or fairytail-ish.

right now i'm almost halfway through Deception by Ziyad Marar. so far i'm enjoying it, but more on that after i'm finished with it!

new goals: teach english abroad and photography

what happened to 2008? i feel like september - november inched by and now suddenly it is half way through january.

work is going well. i'm pretty settled into the office. sitting in an office is not terribly exciting, but if i have to be in one, this is the place for me. our office is complete with a fish tank of native fish and two snails named speedy gonzalez and speed racer. their little mouths are pretty awesome to watch.

i've made some pretty big decisions lately. 1)i am not going to grad school this fall 2)i'm not taking the job i was originally offered here at horizons for homeless children. as a result of these decisions i am now job searching (again) for a second part time job in western mass starting soon/now as well as a full time job somewhere outside the usa starting in the fall. i'm currently hoping to teach english as a foreign language somewhere like thailand, turkey, or the czech republic but i'm really quite open about the location.

i've also decided to try to really improve my photography skills. i'm planning on forcing myself to do this by joining in on the many 365 projects common to flickr. i myself will be attempting to take one photo every day during my 23 year of life which starts on January 29. this is also a good excuse for my birthday present to myself to be a new lens :-D

in other news, i have begun listening to the scientific american podcasts and man am i learning a lot. my favorite is the "totally bogus" section.

new title and... kissing?!

i have (another) job! a real one that both utilizes my college education and involves both doing something that i enjoy and doing something i feel is useful/helpful to the rest of the world. well maybe not the whole world, but at least to all the little animals and the environment in new england! i am the new research editor for rushing rivers institute, a nonprofit involved with river ecology and conservation.

and now for something probably more interesting to the general public. the next time you readers are sharing some smooches, think about this girl and beware!

movin on up...

but not quite to a "deluxe apartment in the sky."

instead, to one of 5 possible apartments in holyoke, massachusetts. i got a part time job working for horizons for homeless children and i can't wait. my own place, a job, a real winter complete with snow, being less than 3 hours from NYC where my two best friends live. hooray!

i officially accepted the offer today. i'll be outta here by tuesday.

shwing baby

last night was a wonderful night: an 18 piece big band, "rosy the riveter" style girls handing out cracker jacks, getting to wear pearls and a fedora, new friends, new moves. oh, good times indeed.

kennesaw state had a great swing dance with a 1940's war times theme. i attended with an old friend from high school who i hadn't seen in over 4 years. there was of course some east coast swing and i learned to lindy hop and charleston and taught john the carolina shag.

this was exactly what i needed.