I feel like my new plan of convincing all my Minnesota friends to move to California with me may prove much more successful than my previous plan to convince all my California friends to move to Minnesota.

 You should NEVER have 38 6th graders in one class.  EVER.  Period.

are stupid.

When I came back from New Zealand, I told my mom "I want a real job.  Like a full-time real job.  Something that is career oriented, and makes me feel like I'm doing something with my life.  But I want something that I'm interested in.  And I don't want to work in an office."  At the time these seemed like impossibly high standards.  Well, mission ( Read more... )

I have decided not to take the job in Bemidji.  It would be a really great opportunity, and there are a million logical reasons why I should take it, (i.e. money, benefits, resume builder, career opportunities, job I would enjoy).  All the reasons not to take it seem silly ( Read more... )

 So I was just was just offered this really amazing job doing campaign work for the Democratic Party.  It has great pay (much better than I'm making now), and includes benefits.  It would look AWESOME on a resume, and possibly lead to some great opportunities.  The catch ( Read more... )

 Sitting in the quad at Oxy, smoking a cigarette.  I won't be in Minneapolis till tomorrow, but it still feels like I am home, and its a pretty nice feeling.  

After stressing out way too much when I went to submit my application to work at the YMCA again this summer, and the website telling me they weren't accepting applications at my location anymore, I e-mailed my old boss.  He wrote back that they are still accepting applications, and he's not sure what happened with the website, and then asked if I ( Read more... )

Good News:  I GOT STRAIGHT A's THIS SEMESTER!  GO ME!

Bad News:  My GPA is now 3.48.  Cum Laude is 3.5... so close :( 

 I met with Malek today about my comps.  He wants me to distill it into a 10 page article and try to get it published in Rolling Stone because "that would be so much cooler than publishing it in some academic journal."  So, apparently my comps are good enough that trying to publish is a consideration.  It looks like I am going to pass, which was ( Read more... )