Still working on the job search. Had an informational interview with a job bank coordinator at a top level "think tank" in DC last Tuesday. She had some good suggestions and gave me the names of some people to contact about job openings that she hasn't announced yet...and may not. There are over 2000 people in this job bank and they're all ( Read more... )

1. What did you do in 2003 that you'd never done before ( Read more... )

Okay, I need to make a list of things to do for Christmas after this paper is done. Yes, this is a blatant cry for help and a pathetic effort to procrastinate writing this paper.

For the record, my parents hate it when I buy them gifts. I don't know if I'm just a bad gift buyer or the fact that it's their money anyway. I'm giving my father (who ( Read more... )

The parents okayed having David over for dinner, now I have to approach having him over earlier for our traditional Christmas matinee. We're planning on seeing The Last Samurai.

I called David to invite him to dinner. Then I let him know that he and I would be making the dinner. He laughed, rightly so!

I finalized the menu to:

Entree:Grilled ( Read more... )

I'm waiting to hear back from my mom to see if it's okay to invite David over for Christmas since he'll be all alone. If she says no I'm definitely going to cause a ruckus. She was saying that she wasn't planning on making anything special for dinner anyway. So I offered to make dinner with David so she wouldn't have to doo anything. Nice ( Read more... )

Added some new pictures to http://www.crystalnaomi.com/gallery


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...but I'm too tired to explain. Good news though...sort of. It's actually just medium news ( Read more... )

Actually, I've been awake for 2 hours already, but it takes me a bit to get through email and whatnot ( Read more... )

The end of the semester draws near ( Read more... )

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