Post-College life
It's a sign: I really am tiring of livejournal. We'll see how long this thing lasts.
I graduated college a month ago. On commencement day, the weather was some 90 plus degrees with high levels of humidity and I was one of few Bennington grads wearing a cap and gown, and sitting on that riser in the sun for roughly an hour was excruciating. After the ceremony, I nearly fainted. But I was also on cloud 9 because I'd just been handed my DIPLOMA. I had finally made it, and I had some teary-eyed and proud teachers, family, and friends in attendance.
My staged reading of the play I wrote went very well. I think it still needs more work, but boy have I made progress, he says humbly. What was even better about it though was the amazing surprise I got at the time. I knew my parents, girlfriend, and aunt were coming, but I did not know that my sister, brother, in-laws, and Brad (best friend from high school) were coming too! What a treat it was--probably the best day I ever had at Bennington.
What went even better was my solo performance piece, which was titled "Brave." It was about my experiences as a Christian Scientist, and I used an experience from summer camp where I had to run as far as I could and then, when tired, had to run all the way back, leaning on God for my strength, as a metaphor for some other challenging experiences I had growing up. It was funny and touching and much more successful than I thought it could/would be. That was a delight.
Perhaps surprising news to some of you, I am now living in Boston. About a week before graduating, I was offered a job at The Mother Church, and they wanted me to start as soon as possible. So now I am working with TMC Youth, helping out with colleges across the country who are doing Christian Science related activity on their campuses, and also helping out with a summer internship program at The Mother Church. I consider myself very blessed to have this job as my first job post-college. And the people I work with are very fun and very nice and just a little bit crazy, which makes it even better.
Right now I'm living in housing that was provided for me by The Mother Church, but I am looking for my own apartment--and I think I found one. I'm supposed to hear back today. It's a cozy one-bedroom basement level apartment in Watertown, about fifteen to twenty minutes outside of Boston. It's not huge, but it's big enough, especially for just one person, and it's cheaper than most other things I could find, and I liked the place too. So, I'm crossing my fingers that that works out. If it does, I'll move in there July 15th.
Immediately after graduating, Inge (my girlfriend) and I went down to Virginia for a week to relax and spend time with her family. It was a great vacation. In addition to just getting to know her family some more, we went to the DC zoo and saw giant pandas and orangutangs (sp?) climbing above the zoo. We also went swimming a fair amount and watched almost a year's supply of West Wing episodes. And I became addicted to Sudoku. It was exactly the vacation I needed.
I love my job, and once I move into my own place, I'm looking forward to writing again, in the evenings. I'm also hoping to reconnect with old BU friends and theatre contacts.
I'm here for at least a year, though I'll be doing some travelling (at least once in September for a Summit at CedarS camps in Missouri). And I may stay longer than a year. I want to go to grad school at some point, I think, and it's just a question of when I'll be ready. I feel like one year may be too soon, but by two years I'll be plenty ready to go. We'll see.
They say that your first year out of college is the hardest and the loneliest. And I've certainly already felt some nostalgia for Bennington life. But on the whole, I have to say that I'm happy and grateful with where I am and what I've got. And I'm looking forward to see what the rest of this year brings. I hope you're all doing well too.
I graduated college a month ago. On commencement day, the weather was some 90 plus degrees with high levels of humidity and I was one of few Bennington grads wearing a cap and gown, and sitting on that riser in the sun for roughly an hour was excruciating. After the ceremony, I nearly fainted. But I was also on cloud 9 because I'd just been handed my DIPLOMA. I had finally made it, and I had some teary-eyed and proud teachers, family, and friends in attendance.
My staged reading of the play I wrote went very well. I think it still needs more work, but boy have I made progress, he says humbly. What was even better about it though was the amazing surprise I got at the time. I knew my parents, girlfriend, and aunt were coming, but I did not know that my sister, brother, in-laws, and Brad (best friend from high school) were coming too! What a treat it was--probably the best day I ever had at Bennington.
What went even better was my solo performance piece, which was titled "Brave." It was about my experiences as a Christian Scientist, and I used an experience from summer camp where I had to run as far as I could and then, when tired, had to run all the way back, leaning on God for my strength, as a metaphor for some other challenging experiences I had growing up. It was funny and touching and much more successful than I thought it could/would be. That was a delight.
Perhaps surprising news to some of you, I am now living in Boston. About a week before graduating, I was offered a job at The Mother Church, and they wanted me to start as soon as possible. So now I am working with TMC Youth, helping out with colleges across the country who are doing Christian Science related activity on their campuses, and also helping out with a summer internship program at The Mother Church. I consider myself very blessed to have this job as my first job post-college. And the people I work with are very fun and very nice and just a little bit crazy, which makes it even better.
Right now I'm living in housing that was provided for me by The Mother Church, but I am looking for my own apartment--and I think I found one. I'm supposed to hear back today. It's a cozy one-bedroom basement level apartment in Watertown, about fifteen to twenty minutes outside of Boston. It's not huge, but it's big enough, especially for just one person, and it's cheaper than most other things I could find, and I liked the place too. So, I'm crossing my fingers that that works out. If it does, I'll move in there July 15th.
Immediately after graduating, Inge (my girlfriend) and I went down to Virginia for a week to relax and spend time with her family. It was a great vacation. In addition to just getting to know her family some more, we went to the DC zoo and saw giant pandas and orangutangs (sp?) climbing above the zoo. We also went swimming a fair amount and watched almost a year's supply of West Wing episodes. And I became addicted to Sudoku. It was exactly the vacation I needed.
I love my job, and once I move into my own place, I'm looking forward to writing again, in the evenings. I'm also hoping to reconnect with old BU friends and theatre contacts.
I'm here for at least a year, though I'll be doing some travelling (at least once in September for a Summit at CedarS camps in Missouri). And I may stay longer than a year. I want to go to grad school at some point, I think, and it's just a question of when I'll be ready. I feel like one year may be too soon, but by two years I'll be plenty ready to go. We'll see.
They say that your first year out of college is the hardest and the loneliest. And I've certainly already felt some nostalgia for Bennington life. But on the whole, I have to say that I'm happy and grateful with where I am and what I've got. And I'm looking forward to see what the rest of this year brings. I hope you're all doing well too.