Category: Updates

This category is just basic site updates, life updates, and progress updates.

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I am alive!

Gosh, didn’t realize the gap in posts was over a month. My sincerest apologies.

I got caught up for a few weeks coping with Hurricane Sandy, I live on Long Island, so many towns did receive lots of damage. Luckily for my family we live 20 minutes from the coast and did not get any flooding. Just high damaging winds and many, many trees down. We only lost power for a day but housed our cousins who didn’t have power for two weeks.

The first two weeks was comparable to living in a police state. National Guard helicopters flew over head, military humvees and other vehicles dominated the roads along with utility and tree removal trucks. FEMA set up a PODS center right by my house. We did a lot of walking to places, that’s for sure.

I’ll update in a few days with some more published work as well as my end of year/internship thoughts.

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My body is finally feeling the weariness my mind has been feeling. My back is in so much pan and I’m showing the early signs of a biting cold; earache, slight fever, drowsiness.

I’m so very, very tired. My body is craving caffeine but I need to hold off on spending money. Filling up my gas tank each week is enough of a burden, and I need to save up some money for my two trips up to school and for post-grad interviews in the city.

I also want to buy or lease my own car by the end of next year. Plus, I need a new laptop, a better camera lens, and more clothes because I have nothing to wear to the office come winter.

How do I do this? Just wishing for a small break to give me a boost. It would really lift my spirits about now.

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*face palm*

So much work to do today and yet I’m held up by people not answering their phones and not getting back to me. I’m sorry if i have to call you back a million times but you’re making it very difficult to do my job. And I like to do my job very well.

 

P.S got my first post-graduation job interview on Friday, super excited.

 

P.P.S I’m attending the Cable Maverick’s Masters Forum this year. I attended it last year and had a great time. Met a lot of cool people, but now it’s time to put my hardcore networking skills to test!

I also upgraded from my old Blackberry to the iPhone 5 and my job has become so much easier since!

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Work Zombie.

I’m starting to think that my Halloween costume this year will be a work zombie, because I have no spare time outside of work to do anything of my own. This is of my own accord, I chose to work this much, but stress is high and made worse by the loved ones around me who do not understand why my schedule is the way it is.

I’m having a great time at my internship and am learning so much. Sure I am tired, and constantly worried about how I am going to fill my gas tank up with a measly part-time job paycheck, but I just remember, this too shall pass.

I am on my way!

Oh and another thing, I set up a professional public Facebook page. “Like” it on Facebook to get quick updates,especially because I only update this blog every few days.

Thanks again 😀

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Oh brother!

I’ve been so busy, and I’m starting to feel the cons of it, such as feeling run down and stretched out.

I applied for a new part-time job at a grocery store because the hours are better for me. I would be able to work after my internship for a few hours, giving me a day or two off for the weekend to relax, recuperate, and enjoy a small social life.

Plus, I am just flying through gas money and it is so concerning to me because I obviously can’t work without it. I’ve been really spacey and out of it today as well, and I think I just need a day in my pajamas, a cup of hot cocoa, and a few books and movies.

Also, my internship informed me that online articles eventually get taken down, so I need to find a way to get them onto PDF files and stick them here. Will update my featured publications page with them when I get around to that.

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Crazy!

I just got back from my school late last night. I left Tuesday afternoon to go up, went out a bit with friends to celebrate my birthday, ran some errands on Wednesday morning, got lunch with my cousin, went to my internship seminar class, hung out with some friends, and then left for the two-hour trip back home.

I cried 5 times yesterday because of how much I miss my professors and classes, as well as my friends.  Luckily, my choice to complete school early and graduate in December, and stay home to do my internship feels right. I feel more concentrated at home.

Still, the first time I walked into the building of where I had most of my classes, I began to cry. I’ve spent so many hours there, learning, creating, and envisioning what my life can be like in the future. I had to spend a couple of minutes in the bathroom to compose myself. I then went and saw my adviser. She is a great lady and told me how proud she was to see me succeed. She convinced me that i should walk at the graduation ceremony in the spring. I began to cry again.

On top of seeing her, I also saw one of the professors I’ve worked a lot with. The adviser for the club I was president of last year. I could only chat with him for a few minutes, but it was nice to see him. I mentioned to him how I kept tearing up and said that I had loved all my classes here. He made a comment that I said that in the past tense. It was an emotional day.

Seeing all my friends was hard too. They’re the people I saw everyday for the 3 years I was up at school. They even said it feels different without me there. At least my school isn’t so far away that I cannot visit from time to time. And I have to go up once a month for a class, anyway, so that excuse is a nice one.

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It’s my birthday!

I’m finally 21! This is good news because now I can attend certain social gatherings and network.  I remember at my internship last year my co-workers kept forgetting that I wasn’t of age and would always invite me out for drinks after work. Now I can go. So excited for these new opportunities.

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Ahem.

Today is the last day in the first week of my new internship. I need to talk to the internship coordinator, but he wasn’t in yesterday and I haven’t seen him yet today.

I so need to talk about another thing. It occurred to me as I was driving to the internship, that the U.S doesn’t really have plazas. Yes we have strip malls and in NYC usually in front of some buildings people sit and stall in front. But I was reminded of my trip to Italy from seeing a picture Venice how we really don’t have those kinds of public squares. It’s a societal element that I think urban and suburban planners should start incorporating.

Oh, and how about the RNC? I refuse to watch it on television to save myself from getting riled up on politics, but I’ve been reading some articles to keep informed. I’ve been reading op-eds on both sides, and general articles that have slim leanings. What I’m learning is how divided this country is now. Eleven years ago we couldn’t be more close in the dust clearings of 9/11, and now the repercussions of the early 2000’s have left us in a politician division comparable to that of a two best friends feuding over a love triangle. And it’s been morphed into some kind of snowball effect. Now it’s not just politicians hating the other party, but actual people unable to have a conversation with someone who supports in another political party.

I’ll be frank, I’m liberal, but have some very conservative family members. I no longer post political things on my FB or comment on their political postings because I know it’ll incite an argument. But this is how I see it; we may have different political ideologies, but on the very basic level all we want is for ourselves and our families to be happy. Why can’t everyone agree to disagree and live a bit more civilized?

 

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In the beginning…

Started my first day of my new internship on Monday. It’s been going well. The paper I’m an intern is not in publication this week, and everyone is pretty much on vacation, as well as they are moving around things in the office, so they haven’t had work for me to do. But I have been helping out with the women’s magazine that has branched off from the paper. I’m really enjoying this work, and the ladies I’m working with are super nice and easy to talk to.

It’s tough being far from my college, especially with my graduation application due in a few days and I need to get it signed by my adviser, but, I can’t make the trip up to school until next week, and the deadline is Sept. 1. On my break today I’m going to call the registration office to beg for a 5 day extension. I need to graduate. Please, please, please, this needs to work!

More about my internship later!

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Two new articles.

I’m having trouble getting back to sleep so I thought I’d update the good ol’ blog with two recent articles.

 

The first one is about bad local oysters and its effect.

 

And this second one is about a group of displaced senior citizens pining for their original meeting place.

I hope you find them well.