Archive for April, 2006

Picture and a story I: The Wellington cable car

Friday, April 28th, 2006

So I’m going to try to refrain from more whiny, I-don’t-have-a-job posts. Those kinds of posts don’t earn readers. Instead I’ve hit upon a more reader-friendly, entertaining method of posting. I promised you more stories from my trip, right? So instead of just boringly regaling you with tales, I’ll post a picture and then boringly [...]

Job searching

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

So the job search hasn’t been going well. There are very few jobs that I’m qualified for or that I would enjoy in Atlanta. I am therefore having a hard time motivating myself to look for jobs or to apply for them. I had one interview at Emory and thought I had a decent shot [...]

Knitting away the stress

Monday, April 24th, 2006

I didn’t get the job at Emory, and I still haven’t heard back from any of the other jobs I’ve applied for. So in an effort to not become utterly despondant, I’ve started knitting again since that helped me maintain my sanity in NZ/AU.
After I finished my sweater in AU, with my leftover yarn I [...]

Good readin’

Sunday, April 16th, 2006

So in my massive amounts of free time, I’ve decided to accomplish several things, which include…
- Cleaning my living space- Writing a book (subject undetermined)- Learning more local bird songs- Knitting another sweater- Losing about 10 lbs- Reading more books with plots- Finishing the furniture renovation project I started about a year ago
I started working [...]

Everyone loves a saucy squeeze

Saturday, April 15th, 2006

While I was in Australia, they showed this commercial a lot, and it absolutely cracked me up everytime. You may or may not think it’s as funny as I do, but here it is (click on the one called “Squeeze Sauces”).
Saucy squeezes

I got off my bum to write you this entry

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

“There were so many fewer questions when stars were still just the holes to heaven.” –Jack Johnson, “Holes to Heaven”[Remind me later to write my thoughts on the American coffee shop. I thought of them just now, and I think they're worthy of writing down. But later.]
I do my best work under the influence of [...]

The REAL beginning of life after grad school

Tuesday, April 4th, 2006

[I am working on getting all of my pictures uploaded somewhere so those of you from out of town can see them. Will post a link here eventually, so check back often.]
After about 24 hours worth of traveling, here I am back in Atlanta. Highlights of the trip back include: TVs in the backs of [...]

Leaving a sunburnt country

Saturday, April 1st, 2006

[My title came from this poem.]
This is my last post from Down Under and my last post of my trip (but never fear–I’m not demolishing this blog…the posts will just be a lot less interesting and frequent from now on). My plane leaves early tomorrow morning. April 1st looks like this for me:
Depart Brisbane
Fly to [...]