It's about time I updated this, and for Gill I will do it!
How's life? Life is busy. Here's what I have been/am/will be doing:
This past week I have been babysitting my little brother and sister. Is it really babysitting if the babies are 15 and 17? It's more like chauferring, catering, and curfew-minding. I was glad to be home in my own bed last night--my parents' bed is quite hard and I had not slept through the night for a good while.
I have also been plunged head first into by role as Grants Director for the 10,000 Hours Show. As well as "directing" grants, I am also currently the only one looking for, researching, and writing the grants. It's way too much work for one person, and I totally understand why the cTeam had a staff of 6-8 grant writers last year! It's a bit insane! Anyway, our first one is due by noon August 15, and is almost done. I just need to make the final tweaks, fill out the form, make 25(!) copies, and get it in the mail. I suppose I'll need a box to mail it... Then I have two or three due Setember 1, one September 15, one September 30, and one or two October 1. And it just continues from there. I really need to get a staff! (There is one girl who is supposed to be helping me, but she's been gone all summer. I hope she gets here soon!)
Next Friday I am leaving to drive cross-country with my friend Emily. She is starting medical school in California and needed someone to help her drive her brand-new car to LA, a 24-hour drive. Problem is, she bought a car with a manual transmission. She doesn't know how to drive a stick. Neither do I. We have one week to learn. It could be very interesting. We're going to drive to Colorado the first night and we'll stay with J in the "boat house" at BOEC. I'm excited to see him--it's been 3 months and it feels like forever. Then we were going to go to Vegas, but plans got changed so we're going to drive all the way to LA the next day. I think the plan is for Em to drop me off at my old roommate's house on Edwards Air Force Base and I'll stay with them for a couple of days, before I fly home on Monday the 21st. Hopefully the whole airport/terrorist situation will have calmed down a little by then, although it makes me glad I didn't end up flying out of LAX. My flights go LA to Vegas to Phoenix to Des Moines, so it will be a long day. Then back to work Tuesday. Oh joy.
So that's life, in between trying to organize a house campaign for my community organizing project, rearrange my living room, get a new battery for my car, go to the State Fair tomorrow (yay!), and maybe see my brother and Liz if they come home this weekend. Oh yes, and applying to grad school. Again. Is it any wonder I'm exhausted?
This past week I have been babysitting my little brother and sister. Is it really babysitting if the babies are 15 and 17? It's more like chauferring, catering, and curfew-minding. I was glad to be home in my own bed last night--my parents' bed is quite hard and I had not slept through the night for a good while.
I have also been plunged head first into by role as Grants Director for the 10,000 Hours Show. As well as "directing" grants, I am also currently the only one looking for, researching, and writing the grants. It's way too much work for one person, and I totally understand why the cTeam had a staff of 6-8 grant writers last year! It's a bit insane! Anyway, our first one is due by noon August 15, and is almost done. I just need to make the final tweaks, fill out the form, make 25(!) copies, and get it in the mail. I suppose I'll need a box to mail it... Then I have two or three due Setember 1, one September 15, one September 30, and one or two October 1. And it just continues from there. I really need to get a staff! (There is one girl who is supposed to be helping me, but she's been gone all summer. I hope she gets here soon!)
Next Friday I am leaving to drive cross-country with my friend Emily. She is starting medical school in California and needed someone to help her drive her brand-new car to LA, a 24-hour drive. Problem is, she bought a car with a manual transmission. She doesn't know how to drive a stick. Neither do I. We have one week to learn. It could be very interesting. We're going to drive to Colorado the first night and we'll stay with J in the "boat house" at BOEC. I'm excited to see him--it's been 3 months and it feels like forever. Then we were going to go to Vegas, but plans got changed so we're going to drive all the way to LA the next day. I think the plan is for Em to drop me off at my old roommate's house on Edwards Air Force Base and I'll stay with them for a couple of days, before I fly home on Monday the 21st. Hopefully the whole airport/terrorist situation will have calmed down a little by then, although it makes me glad I didn't end up flying out of LAX. My flights go LA to Vegas to Phoenix to Des Moines, so it will be a long day. Then back to work Tuesday. Oh joy.
So that's life, in between trying to organize a house campaign for my community organizing project, rearrange my living room, get a new battery for my car, go to the State Fair tomorrow (yay!), and maybe see my brother and Liz if they come home this weekend. Oh yes, and applying to grad school. Again. Is it any wonder I'm exhausted?