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Last entry, I was heading home from Amherst back to Boston, coming down with a bad cold. I hate head colds, headaches, snot continuously pouring out the nose and down my throat - yech! But around the time my cold cleared up all the leaves popped out of the trees. Now there’s only a rare few who aren’t covered with soft new leaves. Spring in Boston is such a relief after the long, dirty winter. Danielle and I went to the crowded public gardens yesterday. It was so beautiful, and right in the heart of Boston!
I had bicycled in (it’s so close!) to buy tickets for China. That’s right! I’m going to China! August 8th - 31st. Danielle got a teaching job at ACT to teach people English. She’ll be working earlier, and I’ll come in just as her job ends so we can tour the area. Her co-workers live there (Guangzhou, the south-east), so their parents will show us around. I’m going to see bamboo forests! Today I’ll bicycle in to visit her in Boston so her co-workers can teach us Chinese while we teach them English pronunciation.
The stupid Museum of Science still hasn’t gotten back to me. I think they must be really disorganized. I’m thinking the job I applied for was probably already filled and they just hadn’t taken it off the website (it’s gone now), or they had a lot of over-qualified applicants. I tried calling but I couldn’t get through to anyone. Even the volunteer people won’t get back to me.
I looked into going to massage school. There’s a really good one pretty close to my place here, but the program lasts 8 months to a year! Also, the class is really small. I went to the info session and took a one-day intro class. The class was good, but I ran into a lot of problems. First, the lights were all dim and by the time the class ended all I wanted was to fall asleep on the floor. Second, everything was all about doing this technique, then this, then that, and sequences of tasks are something I’m especially bad at remembering. Third and most importantly, I don’t think I could handle seeing those people for a year. One older guy was a chef with his own catering business who was constantly making bad, unfunny sarcastic jokes. They were so, I don’t know, normal. One was my age, but the rest were older people making a career change after they got tired of their unfulfilling office jobs. Apparently that’s the standard for massage therapists. When I got home I was thinking about that list I made in an earlier entry and all the studying and work each one would take before I could even apply to do one of them. I might as well start on the only one I’m already qualified for, neuroscience. Start as a labtech to see if I’m really interested. I’ll start by looking for ERP, MEG, and fMRI jobs.
Time to look on monster, bostonworks, craigslist, etc. Ick.
I had bicycled in (it’s so close!) to buy tickets for China. That’s right! I’m going to China! August 8th - 31st. Danielle got a teaching job at ACT to teach people English. She’ll be working earlier, and I’ll come in just as her job ends so we can tour the area. Her co-workers live there (Guangzhou, the south-east), so their parents will show us around. I’m going to see bamboo forests! Today I’ll bicycle in to visit her in Boston so her co-workers can teach us Chinese while we teach them English pronunciation.
The stupid Museum of Science still hasn’t gotten back to me. I think they must be really disorganized. I’m thinking the job I applied for was probably already filled and they just hadn’t taken it off the website (it’s gone now), or they had a lot of over-qualified applicants. I tried calling but I couldn’t get through to anyone. Even the volunteer people won’t get back to me.
I looked into going to massage school. There’s a really good one pretty close to my place here, but the program lasts 8 months to a year! Also, the class is really small. I went to the info session and took a one-day intro class. The class was good, but I ran into a lot of problems. First, the lights were all dim and by the time the class ended all I wanted was to fall asleep on the floor. Second, everything was all about doing this technique, then this, then that, and sequences of tasks are something I’m especially bad at remembering. Third and most importantly, I don’t think I could handle seeing those people for a year. One older guy was a chef with his own catering business who was constantly making bad, unfunny sarcastic jokes. They were so, I don’t know, normal. One was my age, but the rest were older people making a career change after they got tired of their unfulfilling office jobs. Apparently that’s the standard for massage therapists. When I got home I was thinking about that list I made in an earlier entry and all the studying and work each one would take before I could even apply to do one of them. I might as well start on the only one I’m already qualified for, neuroscience. Start as a labtech to see if I’m really interested. I’ll start by looking for ERP, MEG, and fMRI jobs.
Time to look on monster, bostonworks, craigslist, etc. Ick.