Ugh.  I have no idea what to do this summer.  I have an amazing job offer from this company, Wilderness Ventures, to be their Kayak Specialist at Yellowstone.  So I would basically be taking various groups of teenagers on 2-6 day kayaking trips up there.  But then they sent me the contract.  It only makes $250/week, AND you I wouldn't get paid ( Read more... )

Rough week.  But amazing.  I had 12 children sobbing last night because they didn't want to go home.  I had an amusing but heartfelt talk about boys and dating with 4 of my 6th graders last night.  And this morning, all 13 of my kids and our aide this week shared the amazing things they had learned this week.  Most of these things included ( Read more... )

I am totally loving my new job!  If you don't know, I quit my job at the park district to go work for The Orange County Outdoor Science School, aka 6th grade science camp up in the San Bernardino Mountains north of Redlands.  I live in Forest Falls MOnday through Friday and come home to the desert on weekends.  Each week I am in charge of a cabin ( Read more... )

I am so excited and nervous and stoked for this week!  So a month ago I interviewed for Outdoor Science School-which I've been wanting to do for years.  It was a scary choice to make-leave a secure, good, enjoyable job near home to go work in the mountains and live with children five days a week.  Last Monday I started staff training, and tomorrow ( Read more... )

Apparently the last time I backed up anything on my laptop was right about 2 years ago.  Damn.  Considering it blue-screen-of-deathed me last week.  Damn damn damn.  2 years of pictures and music, and my most recent resumes.  Hopefully it is salvageable, or I am going to be angry at myself and my computer.  Damn ( Read more... )

Wow-long time no write.  I guess that's what happens when I don't have long periods of time when I am procrastinating writing papers and such.  And when I procrastinate at work I can't very well blog.  ANYways ( Read more... )

Dear Face ( Read more... )

...but I don't wanna.  I keep meaning to blog but then run out of time.  So snippets ( Read more... )

Ugh, so I was really close to asking someone out today, and totally chickened out.  There's always tomorrow, right? 

I was thinking today about how much I took study abroad for granted.  I mean, I did, and I didn't.  I always knew that it wasn't something that a lot of people go to do, but being at Oxy, it was.  So many people do go abroad, and so many of the other people I hang out with did-people from camp and whatnot.  But then to come back to the High Desert ( Read more... )