My search for a purpose continues

Of course I can't forget how much fun I had at my UNPAID internship at the Children's Museum in Charleston last summer. So I started looking for museum jobs last night. I came across the American Association for Museums website last night! It's an amazing site for job searching anywhere in the country and has just about anything you want to know about museums as well. I'm going to explore some more.

I'm back!!!

From the frozen wasteland/wilderness/Camp Menogyn having slept in a quincy hut/igloo and having jumped in a hole in a frozen lake. Yikes. This makes me sound crazy, but I had tons of fun while doing it, I promise. I haven't lost all my marbles...yet! Because on our way home I saw not one, but TWO moose on the side of the road and an eagle later on closer to home. I love holidays.

And, I found out that I just got 5/6 on my writing section of the GRE. Worst essay I've ever written too. Weird. I'll take it and go apply to schools now. Sweet.

Quarterlife, take III or IV

I wasn't expecting to get into this series, but every now and again when I have some spare time (like that happens often) I take a look at it. It's actually kind of good, in a cheesy but I can totally relate kind of way.

Judge for yourself.

quarterlife - part 12

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To many...

decisions, resolutions, changes, year-end general cleaning up and maintenance to do. No, I don't want to go to grad school if I'm not truly sure it is what I want to do. But I don't want my two years worth of education award from AmeriCorps to go to waste either.

No, sitting home ALONE on a Saturday night does not usually lead to good thoughts about anything, particularly not such heady things as what my future will hold in three or four years from now. But I think, because that's what I do. I think and then I write. And it's not always coherent writing. But that's OK.

Do the JET Programme? Sure, I certainly know two people that have done it and loved every minute of it. And I certainly know someone in Japan too! It might be cool to be close to my long time pen pal again. But it's such a risk! I can do it, and there shouldn't be anything to loose there, and it would be quite the experience.

I need to gather more information.

That's the bottom line here people. More information needed.

Basking in the Glory...

of a 670 Quantitative GRE score today.

totally rocks my world. I swear I was going through this to just break 600, but I totally surprised myself and am proud of my hard work. 670? I hate standardized tests!

My verbal score was not so impressive. Only a 510. But that's because I'm working 50+ hour weeks and didn't have time to do my vocabulary flashcards like I had hoped.

All in all, a respectable score. As my mom puts it, "it's not like I"m applying to Harvard Law or anything." I'm hoping these scores are what I need to get into a decent state school in education or Spanish or music performance. I can't decide what I want to do when I grow up, but I feel like I have a little bit more control over my future. Go me. I'm so freakin' relieved that it's over now.

My writing scores come back in a few weeks, but I'm pretty sure I rocked the "analyze and argument" section.

Focus focus

So I'm going to try to focus this blog a little more over the course of the year to focus on issues related to my field, national service, my year of service in Minneapolis, studying for the GRE, leading after school activities, teaching, writing, or anything else I find amusing.

That doesn't sound too focused now does it?

I'm also going to try to take on NaNoWriMo, so it might be my space to blog about that too. Who knows? The possibilities are endless. Definitely going to start posting here again.