Did you catch the eclipse last night?
The job search should start soon. I feel a lot of pressure (internally and externally) to get a job asap! I hope that happens, as I do not want to take a temporary job or anything while I look for “the” great job, but I guess I could always do that. Hmm. Be a temp and ride out the vast number of graduates vying for jobs this spring.
Shrug. But I’d rather get one asap. (:
Trends in the Cory-Barnhart house:
-Not too much given up for Lent this year, but I am trying to wake up earlier (I am a very bad waker-upper).
-EJ has started making mango-banana-peach smoothies in the morning, and I get part of them. Yum! (Most of the time.)
-Dylan was under the weather in his spirits last week. We made a Dr’s appointment – does anyone know about doggie prozac? Or puppy-psycho-therapy? I am a social worker, I should be able to talk to him, right? Maybe I’ll look into the literature. Hmm, not much there.
-American Idol season!
-We knew this before, but they are closing “our” bar. It’s a little like Cheers, really, everyone knows my name. And it’s across the street. And it plays good music. And the bartenders are nice people and friends. And the people are good people. And it’s fun. The other bars across the street aren’t like that.
Filed under Brooklyn, Things to do | Comments (2)New Year’s
Back to work.
Happy New Year! I haven’t gotten out my traditional “Step by step guide to New Years Resolutions” this year, and I probably won’t. I’ll keep them in my head and do baby steps. Most of all, I resolve to plan a wedding happily! Woo! Positive attitudes are good. I am certainly open to ideas on how to do that.
I’m reading something other than school – gasp! What is the What by Dave Eggers. I like it, you should read it.
With all the people and business combined with laziness of the last few weeks, as EJ said, I should get into a routine. Or at least a balance – yes, that sounds better.
Things to do in the next 2 months:
-Finish a really nice resume
-Practice interviewing with Dylan
-Start classes off well and increase overall confidence! (Maybe there’s a book on that)
-Read at least one more personal book
-Start planning a wedding!
Filed under School_Work, Things to do | Comment (1)Is it Friday yet?
One more paper, and then relax…Wait, then shopping, work, cleaning (which has been neglected because of said papers, etc.), job search, resume writing, traveling to KC, talking to parents about weddings, etc. Hopefully there will be a schvitz or such in there, too.
This week.
So, week one from hell is over – whew! Although, looking back I don’t feel my papers were quite as good…but it’s the learning process that’s important, right?
Today is EJ’s birthday! My mother would always wake me up on my birthday with this little music box that sang happy birthday – sorry, EJ, I should have made some effort. I tried to get Dylan to sing happy birthday, but ran out of time – perhaps for next year.
Interesting class item: my professor for program evaluation is teaching us how to code surveys, etc., and, naturally, as part of our survey we had, along with age, gender, etc., the “ethnicity” box. He asked us – why have this box? Race is a weak theory at best, and put as many categories as you want on it, but if you analyze the data, it will really just come down to black and white, right? So why have it? Is it to support answers to questions we already think we have (ex: taking data on salaries, did we already make the conclusion that non-whites will make less?). We could probably “prove” that with the statistics, but you can prove everything with statistics – what if the salary information is more based on college/economic background/previous jobs? Anyway, the moral to the story is that, if you make up a survey or the next time you are answering a survey, consider the implications of having the ethnicity/race box, and consider eliminating it, not answering, or other tactic. Because by having it/assuming it’s important, are we just perpetuating assumptions to questions? Hmm.
I’m going to talk with by boss about what I want to be when I grow up. Any suggestions?
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