Lost checkbook crisis resolved, via closing my checking account and extracting myself from large mysterious banking corporations. I've spent a lot of time on the phone shuffling my student loans and taking care of loose ends that make me feel grown up and capable.

A lot of it has to do with the negative backlash I've been feeling since leaving ( Read more... )

I think it just hit me that I have less than two days left in NCCC.

I can't believe it's almost over. Even though I have been so ready to leave for months, this has become so much a part of my life that I've still been putzing around, keeping weird hours, and not feeling that separation at all. There is so much I need to do tomorrow!!

Transition week ( Read more... )

Transition week is unpleasant. Six more days until I am an AmeriCorps alumnus. Tonight, Dani and I are hopping in a car and roadtripping to Utah to camp at the Arches for the weekend!

On the boardwalk again. More posts need to be set into the ground; time to blearily blast ourselves with bug spray, load the auger onto the cart, and haul heavy boards down the trail one by one. Any idle moment is an opportunity to lean against something and close our eyes. None of us are fully awake; we haven't been all week.

Like everyone else, I ( Read more... )

Well, the storm has passed. Our team leader called a meeting, where we basically hashed out most of the tension on them team and I got to say my piece. I had written a thing up, some notes on what I wanted to communicate to the group about needing to support each other and stay positive, but what came out instead was an admission of my own ( Read more... )

The countdown has begun. As another teammate put it, I am basically mentally checked out and it's hard for me to discuss how difficult this round is for me. The hardest part is that I feel so god awful isolated and lonely here, and I can't bring myself to confide in anyone here. I don't really trust anyone on my team. I have been fairly desperate ( Read more... )

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4:45 PM 5/25/2009

On the kanji dictionary on my DS, I found a world clock function; it said that it's almost 6 am in Japan. Somehow, just seeing that took me there for a moment. I could see the quiet scalloped rooftops tinged grey and yellow in the early morning light, the slow flight of birds, a few bicycles jingling down the streets. No matter ( Read more... )

A well-written, moving article on the importance of education. The fact that I was able to read it and feel so touched is proof of how blessed I am to be educated. Even though I felt useless and overloaded at school sometimes, I can see now how I was planting seeds for a long time. This year after School has been an unfurling; I'm waking up and ( Read more... )

How much did the Star Trek rock? I had a smile on my face the whole time. As Dani said, I hadn't felt so much nerdy joy and giddiness in a long time. Well done, guys.

Our project changed. We're no longer doing Habitat in Birmingham, Alabama. Instead, we're building trails in Moundville Archaeological Park, which "contains the remains of one of the ( Read more... )