I'm curious about where my peers pick up what they know about job-hunting. I hear a lot of general laments about how liberal arts education leaves people ill-prepared for careers that aren't academia, unsure of what other options exist, and I've certainly spent enough time being bitter about my own relative inexperience. At the same time, though, I ( Read more... )

1) Fill in the following sentence about me-"I have seen Anna happiest and most relaxed when she is__________ ( Read more... )

Because I spend way too much time analyzing my current work and childhood camp experiences to death (and am too cheap for a paid account ( Read more... )

First my washer decided to give out mid-load. That was annoying, reaching into elbow-deep water to pull out my sodden clothes, but nothing the dryer couldn't compensate for ( Read more... )

The first day of training for a new summer camp season inevitably means team-building exercises ( Read more... )

Apparently most of the world hates my friendly neighborhood grocery store, and I'm still not entirely sure why. (Yes, I'm aware of the bias where people only post reviews on places like yelp if they only have extremely positive or negative experiences, but I've heard this opinion expressed by friends in person too ( Read more... )

I moved to the house I did in Philadelphia, despite the random people and dirty kitchen, largely so I could be here in time to go to the trans-health conference. After moving, I waffled a lot--wouldn't I be disrupting other people's safe space, could my turning up there be interpreted as me doing the obnoxious "it's your job as an [insert minority ( Read more... )

FINALLY heard back from the Girl scout camp. Interview next week, hiring seems likely.

Let the apartment hunting process (and the spamming of LJ with apartment hunting questions) begin!

MY THESIS IS DONE!!!!!

It's not going to disappear and go poof on me, right? And it's shorter than anthro theses generally are...that's okay too, I guess?

Now I will go to sleep approximately forever, and immediately commence bugging prospective employers once I wake up.

The first chapter of my thesis is gone. Saved wrong somehow. I think I know roughly when it happened, but that doesn't change the fact that it's thirteen pages gone poof into the ether ( Read more... )