i have moved. new place is great. i will have everyone over very soon! i love it. its very hotel-esque with an edge to it.

great night tonight - some great deep house, some great friends, some great city, it's all i need :) thanks again to everyone who came out. you guys are the greatest!

it's been a really long time since i updated, but i'm in the mood to post something. the roads are terrible, but i made it into work. i definately miss snow days. most of my programs are at schools so we've had a bunch of days off lately for me to be in the office and catching up on stuff, which is good. i also have an intern from the school of ( Read more... )

two updates in less than a week - crazy. i'm getting ready to go to dc for a work conference - i'll be gone until thursday night. should be a nice trip, the conference is on preventing school based violence. had a very nice weekend. hung out with the family, went to the franklin cider mill (i had no idea it became so commercial - there were at ( Read more... )

so i'm really excited b/c one of the federal grants i wrote got funded. it's my first successful federal application that i oversaw from the beginning so i'm really happy about it. i was feeling down b/c we got rejected from another one that we submitted, but i feel really good about getting this one. i'm definately building experience, and i ( Read more... )

http://createdetroit.com/2006/08/16/brain-gain/#more-52

This is a really interesting post about the free press article on brain drain.

another update, though i havent really been posting on here in awhile. got back from tahoe yesterday. nice family trip, i was only there for four days, but the flight back worked out well. flight there was stressful. flying on the morning they decided to ban liquids on planes=15 hours of airport time and six hours in phoenix. at the barry ( Read more... )

memorial day weekend was a lot of fun - it was great to see everyone and to catch up. only made it to the festival one day, but the two afterparties i attended were really fun and i loved just seeing everyone hanging out. and bumping into people randomly outside music events, it's so nice to do that and it definately doesn't happen like it did in ( Read more... )

things have been good lately. just getting settled into my new place and moving along with work. this weekend, i had a really fun, low key housewarming party with an intense game of life. and breakfast on sunday with jon and becca at ihop was a good way to cap off the weekend. i took the day off work yesterday and tried to take care of a bunch ( Read more... )

at work right now, just waiting for this woman to email me back so that i can send out our cdc continuation application. also on the hunt for more boxes. i'll be doing the big move tomorrow. it's not far, just to a brownstone apartment in the same building, but we have a lot of stuff and it's mostly packed, but boxes really fill up so quickly. ( Read more... )