*blows the dust off this thing* Whoopsie-doodle. Accidental-sorta-intentional six month blogging hiatus while I got settled into my Life After AmeriCorps. Let’s take a quick tour of what has happened since my last post: JULY – We graduated Class XIX of AmeriCorps NCCC Pacific Region with only a few last minute speed bumps. Part of […]
Category Archives: Sacramento
We are back in Sacramento for one final end of the year stint. The CMs depart campus next Tuesday the 23rd, and I’ll be outta here on July 30th. On deck for the week are all of the normal end of project activities (project debrief presentation, celebration videos with our units, mountains of paperwork on […]
“How long had the Beatles been broken up before John was killed?” One of my CMs idly pondered as we all stood around the classroom, painting the base coat primer on the walls. “Imagine” had just begun to play over the speakers of my laptop, where Pandora was DJing. “Well, he was killed in 1980, […]
I last updated with an itemized glimpse into the life of a TL during transition. My time is mostly spent pinballing between my dorm, the office building, and the training building: When I wasn’t running around like a crazy person on campus, I looked a lot like this: I struggled greatly with very basic tasks […]
Ah, another large gap between posts. I hope none of you were worried I’d been kidnapped, died or gone rogue. I know that I owe many of you letters, even more of you phone calls, and yet more of you basic text messages. Please know that I do not ignore your missives because I’ve decided […]
It’s 6am and I’m back at work! Seattle was great, Denver was great, I’m great, etc. I’ve got some things to catch up on that I proudly ignored in December. So for now this is all you get – but I will hopefully be back soon with actual details about break, and some photos, and […]
I’ve already changed the header of my blog back to my Seattle skyline because I am pretending I am already home instead of slogging through my last day of transition. My poison oak exploded all over my arms as soon as I stepped onto campus and I haven’t been sleeping more than 3-4 hours every […]
My brain feels like scrambled eggs a lot of the time here. If I don’t write something down, there’s a 99% chance I’ll completely forget about it. Consequently, I keep having great ideas about what to write about on this blog and am unable to follow through because I can’t remember what I thought was […]
Hey look! This is my 150th post! I’ve posted as many times as years have passed since the Civil War! I’ve found myself with a spare half an hour and thought I should do my best to be productive. Since I’ve caught up with all my AC paperwork for the moment, that means I get […]
I’m not really a crier. I mostly cried out of frustration when I was younger (striking out AGAIN, and AGAIN). And sure, I do that horribly attractive convulsive sobbing thing every time Captain Miller empties his entire handgun at the German tank wheeling over the bridge just as the air strike hits, and every time […]
let us cross over the river, 