I should be writing my grant for Fiskars. But I decided to pop onto LJ before my team leader showed up for a visit "to help" me and my boss through the AmeriCorps process. I don't know how she will be helpful unless she knows most of the food industry business in Spokane and is willing to hook me up ( Read more... )

Sam went for his interview at the UW two weekends ago. He really went to make his family feel better, and since he didn’t have to fly. I think he and I were the only ones who didn’t care about the whole thing. Before he left I told him if they gave him and guff to tell them he would prefer going to a school with updated facilities.

Virginia ( Read more... )

The future in-laws came over this week to see the new apartment. Clearly I was nervous, I almost ruined the lovely food I prepared while managing to burn myself on the oven ( Read more... )

So I'm working for a new nonprofit now.

This new nonprofit has four well established programs that service low-income women and their children, as well as homeless women. My job is working on a fifth program that is barely a year old; it's a job training program that is a lot like FareStart: www.farestart.org/. My program is really small in a lot of ( Read more... )

Dear Taylor Swift,

The boy you stole the life of to produce all of your sappy songs wants his life back. He feels it's a big fat lie that you write songs about being the girl on the bleacher not getting any attention in high school.

www.youtube.com/watch. Aside from the fact I feel like it's on the radio every time I hear a snippet, I'm having ( Read more... )

I am a grant writing, email sending, Vista position searching, contingency plan making machine. I have three EOI email drafts waiting to be sent promptly tomorrow morning for various positions, most of which right now (the night is young!) are in Michigan.

I got word today from the FFN position that they are waiting until June 2 to announce their ( Read more... )

I would really appreciate it if people who I am interviewing with would be upfront with me. If the job I am excited to interview for is not the one you will ultimately contact but then not tell me until the interview begins- I will not be a happy camper. My interview today went ok I guess, oh, except for the part when instead of it being a job ( Read more... )

I could do a "real job" (as many people like to call them) after graduation, instead of AmeriCorp. This is an option I keep on the back burner, but do not favor ( Read more... )

I am in the process of photographically documenting how tormenting my roommate, Tom Cruise (see previous posts such as Bitch Please, Part One, Two, and Three), can be for me to live with. Who couldn't agree about shitty roommates, I certainly have laughed a lot about the antics Ash's roommates create. I just thought it could be funny to share, plus ( Read more... )

Christmas is looming, and money is not. I now have to buy/make/find twice the amount of toys this year because of the new addition. Because I'm trying to make gifts from the heart, I'd like to make some stuff for the girl's that unique enough they might keep it for a long time. The only answer that has been coming to mind: make Julia and Krystal ( Read more... )