First let me say that Portland was beautiful and wonderful, and I really really want to move there, and that this is the first city in the States that I have fallen in love with besides NYC.

Second, the details...

The trip started off poorly. Our flight was delayed. We left the apartment in Brooklyn at around 1:30pm, got to LaGuardia airport at ( Read more... )

I originally started this journal in Spain, kind of as a travel journal, to update my friends and family (mainly parents) about what I was doing in Spain. I continued writing in Argentina (a little in between, but not that much), so this really became a travel journal then ( Read more... )

JP and i just signed a lease last friday. so it's official, i'm moving to brooklyn with JP

i'm really really excited to be moving in with JP, but sad to be moving out of manhattan, sad to no longer live in the lower east side where i can walk to work and where my entire new york city existence has revolved around (well, village, east village, ( Read more... )

Its gorgeous out

i do not want to be sitting at a desk inside right now. there should be mandatory outside office space

the last weeks have been crazy. i worked straight from March 24th through April 11th, with no days off, well, only taking 3 days off to go to a funeral, so no real days off. we had our biggest Admissions events March 29, 30 and 31st ( Read more... )

In lieu of flowers, please donate in her memory to:
The Eastern Christian School Association, 50 Oakwood Avenue, North Haledon, NJ 07508
Or donate online at http://www.easternchristian.org

A memorial service took place at the Flemington Presbyterian Church, 10 East Main St. Flemington, ( Read more... )

2008 is looking up

I have decided to take 2 non-credit, non-degree courses with NYU SCPS this spring:

Evolution and Operation of Nongovernmental Organizations
and
Role of the Nonprofit Organization in Society

I still receive 80% tuition remission, so I think, with fees, I should only have to spend about $200 for both courses, which is definitely doable.

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (yes, I am aware of the craze, but I really liked the book, even if it is mass marketed)
i am also really enjoying His Dark Materials trilogy but Philip Pullman that i started in 2007, and am now finishing in 2008.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?

this is a weird question... what does this mean ( Read more... )

"That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old."

-The Librarian, The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman

went to my second holiday party last night ( Read more... )

I found out last night that i didn't get in to Wagner (NYU Wagner School of Public Service)

I will not be getting a Masters in Public Administration
I will not be using my tuition remission for grad school

at least not at the moment

rejection sucks

i know i just need to re-group, i know i this is not the end of the world, that it doesn't mean i won't ( Read more... )