After considering my last, mostly negative post from the entrance station, I thought I should write a second to cover my butt just a bit. Yes, there are a lot of frustrating things about working in the entrance station, but there are a lot of great things too. And I thought they deserved their own blog post. So here are some of the things I like about working in the entrance station: Continue reading “Observations from the Entrance Station: Part 2”
Observations from the Entrance Station: A Rant
I work the entrance station shift several times a week (in fact, I’m sitting in it right now), and I’ll admit it’s not my favorite part of the job. Being isolated in a little booth by yourself for 5 hours at a time, repeating the same thing to visitors over and over again, isn’t exactly what I’d call ‘fun.’ But most of the time it’s not too painful, and I’ve got a great view. The entrance station is a great place to watch the storms roll by, the rice grass glow in the sun, and the wildlife going about their merry day. But the best views of all are of the tourists. Continue reading “Observations from the Entrance Station: A Rant”
Life Decisions
Well, it’s official. I won’t be returning to Boston in the fall after all.
It went against my gut feeling from the start, and the more I learn and explore the more I realize I’m nowhere near done learning and exploring and nowhere near ready to settle into a single place and career. This is probably the scariest choice I’ve ever made, but I’m content that it’s the right one. My future is now one big, open span of time. Continue reading “Life Decisions”
YouTube Fun
A few months ago YouTube ran a joint campaign with google called ‘Search Stories,’ where you could create your own ‘search’ themed commercial like the ones Google was airing. Mine seems especially appropriate now even more than it did when I created it in May. Watch it below:
Copy and Paste: Canyonlands Week 1
An email I wrote to my family and close friends after my first week at Canyonlands (abbreviated, if you can believe it): Continue reading “Copy and Paste: Canyonlands Week 1”
Well, Hello
It’s been a long time since my last post, and to be honest, I didn’t intend on writing again. A lot has happened in the past few months. And my life seemed to be heading in a direction that wasn’t exactly consistent with the mood and message of this blog. So I abandoned it. Continue reading “Well, Hello”
Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I–
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Why I Will Never Fly American Airlines Again
This post is long overdue, but the fact that I’m still angry enough to write about the incident a month and a half after it occurred definitely says something.
It took me three days, four airports, and two airlines to get home from spring break. This is my sad, sad story. Continue reading “Why I Will Never Fly American Airlines Again”
The Dominican Republic
For spring break this year my mom and I traveled to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic to visit our newly relocated family. This was the first time I had been to this part of the island for an extended period of time, as my family were previously all living in the capital, Santo Domingo. Punta Cana is located on the easternmost tip of the island, has one of the longest stretches of white sand beaches in the Caribbean, and might be one of the most beautiful places I have ever experienced. Continue reading “The Dominican Republic”
Paperwork Paperwork PAPERWORK
Just got back from a trip to visit the family in the Dominican Republic, I’ll write about that (as well as my hellish trip home) in a few days. But for now there’s lots of catching up to do, as I returned home to find these two lovely packages at my doorstep:
Along with happy little official acceptances and a few pages of information on the programs, both of these packages are chuck full of paperwork. The more daunting of the two is the Peace Corp packet, which is filled with medical papers that need to be filled out by 4 different type of doctors – my primary physician, dentist, gyno and a psychologist to verify that I’m either sane (or crazy) enough to go through with this.
Bahhhhhhh
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