You know (or you hope) it's been a busy day (in a good way) when you're finally cleaning up your work inbox at 4am because there just hasn't been any other time to do it. I hope this isn't a case of me deluding myself with my bad time management skills (just kidding ( Read more... )

I really have no clue what to write about today ( Read more... )

Since college, my lunch has been mostly peanut butter and jelly sandwiches (my boss thinks this is hilarious). This is largely a result of a year-and-a-half of non-food stamp AmeriCorps, where every penny was to be pinched. Although there are occasionally cheap lunches to be found ($4 quesadillas from the taco truck in Washington Heights and random ( Read more... )

So, at the beginning of the year, we asked our Fellows to blog as a reflection on their year of service. Much like my own blogging, many of them have stopped, mostly due to other time constraints (almost all of it work related). But thinking about our original intentions for our Fellows' blogs and rather than this blog being a running commentary on ( Read more... )

So while I usually advocate for 3-day weekends, I think I might extend that push to 4-day weekends. After all, that would enable an easier split between two cities (say, hypothetically, San Francisco and New York). Plus one of those days might actually be dedicated to important things. Like sleeping ( Read more... )

Less than 48 hours after setting foot in New York's Kennedy Airport, I find myself in San Francisco's International Airport. It's been a quick trip (as just about everyone has told me) but totally worth it. I managed to find a bunch of my running shirts and the 2 Harry Potter books I own (I actually am not sure which ones - I'm pretty sure it's 5 ( Read more... )

Re-committing myself to blogging, which probably means that I'll blog this week (or maybe just today), then fall off the bandwagon again. We'll also see how the sleep cycle pans out - right now, it's not looking so hot. I'm especially trying to capture the nonprofit lifestyle, but we'll see how that goes. I'll probably get distracted by bacon ( Read more... )

Kind of enjoying Saturday morning for now. Maybe I should actually make an effort to be around for Saturday mornings. Passed out at 10pm after eating Ecuadorian food (!) and drinking Inca Kola with two friends. As a result, woke up at about 6am (which I owe to commuting an hour twice a week to arrive at our school site at 7:30 and for trying to do ( Read more... )

Waiting in the office for my two crazy friends to get down from Manhattan ("the island" as another friend likes to call it) so we can go out to dinner. Caught up copies and some basic finance (still more to do, but...) and I am ready to go eat. Did I mention these friends (from Peace Corps) are taking a cab? Do I even know these people ( Read more... )

So, I'm trying to take five minutes out of every day to jot some thoughts down in this here livejournal, more as an exercise in speed-writing and writing on the fly (which, uh, may or may not be the same thing). Obviously I have failed up until now (possibly because I am stranded on a bus with wireless). But here goes ( Read more... )