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Sunny paradise

April 26, 2009

It was a great weekend with weather in the 90s all Saturday and Friday.

I have loved having my room to myself with Ever in Mexico visiting her family. Johnny stayed the weekend so that we could all have Chinese delivered Friday night as we watched TV, and then Saturday we made a impromptu trip to Virginia Beach, which is 3 hours away. We even were able to take a tunnel under the ocean on our drive down there-how awesome is that!!

me, Johnny, Caylah and Sheila

We worked on our tans while taking breaks to go to the water edge and cool off. It was gorgeous. However, by the time we made it back to DC we were drained of energy. While I worked on a class communications project with a classmate, everyone else passed out. Johnny gave my classmate and I heck on our project before passing out smooth on the couch.

Today, we found the doorways to our apartment’s pool area unlocked and snuck out there to sunbathe with another TWC student, Andrea. It felt even hotter today and we had to go to the Rockville square to cool off in the fountain. 🙂 It was worth it though-we all have a little color to our previous snow white skin!

22 Days

April 23, 2009

I have 22 days left before I leave Washington, DC, for Arkansas. Wow. It does not seem right, especially since I am still searching for a job! It is actually scary! I graduate May 9 and I still have no job! 😦

On a positive note-I have my room to myself for the weekend. Ever is attending her sister’s Quinceañera, or birthday celebration. She has been dieting for this event the whole semester and already has a list of food she wants to eat once she is back.

It’s Getting Hot In Here!

April 18, 2009

It was hot and wonderful in DC today! Cay and I spent the night at Johnny’s last night so we could go to Nicks, a country bar in Virginia with him and one of his friends, Megan. It was awesome.

To thank him for letting us stay at his house and his car, I bought the makings for pancakes and Cay made us pancakes, eggs and toast. It was a great way to start out the day before we began sightseeing DC. We had 6 hours to show Megan the official sights of DC before she had to be at the airport at 8 p.m.

I have to admit-it was an unforgetable day! I just saw more than 50 Abraham Lincoln’s at the Lincoln Memorial. It turns out that there was a Lincoln Convention in town so I got to mingle with them all! Cool. Well, it was actually really creepy!

Constant Contact

April 17, 2009

I took PHA News one step further today and placed all the blurbs into Constant Contact. It was easier to use then I expected-it was neat!

PHA News consumed my day yesterday and today, so I am looking forward to get more stuff done next week. I helped staff volunteer night Wednesday so I was able to leave at 4 p.m. yesterday and today-and I believe yesterday’s events were a sign to never do it again!

I left work at 3:45 p.m. to make it to the 4:03 p.m. train and fell right before I made it to the train. By the time I was picked up and my stuff, I was able to make it to the MARC train’s platform just in time to see the train pull off. Literally, I was steps away from making it.

So there I was stuck in the train station bleeding, limping and with dirty clothes. I was furious. The next MARC train was not going to be there until 4:45 .m. and since I had to make it home by 5 p.m., the later MARC train was still faster than the Metro.

So I waited and waited … and the MARC train was then 15 minutes late and on the opposite platform due to a freight train ahead of it. Grr.

5:08 p.m. That is the time I made it to Rockville. It was just in time to pass my group heading to the Nationals-Phillies game. Caylah and I were planning to head to the baseball game with a bunch of TWC students and a RA that lived in our apartment building, however that did not happen obviously.

Still Caylah had dinner ready for me (she did not have to work-MPD has emancipation day off work) and we were able to get out the door and to the game just in time.

The game was awesome! Cay is a huge Phillies fan so of course I was for the Nationals … and who’s team won? Mine.

Heck yeah. It was the first win of the season for the Nationals, ending a nasty losing streak. Heck yeah!

Tonight, Cay and I are staying at Johnny’s to head out to Nicks-a country bar. Fun, fun.

Play ball!

April 14, 2009

I bought tickets to the Nationals baseball game against the Phillies tonight! It is my first game to attend down here so I am pretty excited. The Thursday night game will be the start of a great weekend – at least I hope.

It will be the perfect pick-me-uper for the disaster article I had due today for an internship I am applying for. The article is okay, but not the best that I have done. So-tomorrow will be my deciding factor on whether I pass the first stage of the internship application.

The internship is only one of several, and I mean SEVERAL, jobs and internships I am applying for. I have exactly one month to find employment for after my graduation. Wish me luck.

Meanwhile in my current internship, I am preparing for another PHA News edition. I am taking my work on the e-mailed newsletter a step further this week and putting the news blurbs in constant contact before I send them to the next person. It looks easy, so we’ll see if this is true.

Besides the newsletter, I am still working on updating several pages for the medical education department at PHA, and attending web redesign meetings. We had a hour-long meeting today and we will be having a 2-hour meeting tomorrow. Fun stuff. Once the meeting is over, I can start looking forward to working our volunteer night since I do not have class tomorrow. I am just glad to have no class!

My bad

April 8, 2009

I was technically behind the wipe out of my work’s home page yesterday after all. Apparently when I went to get the remote site’s copy of the home page, the server had it as I was putting the local file’s home page copy on the remote site = thus a blank page.

In all, my superviser said that while it was both my fault and hers- it technology wasn’t … it was just a computer glitch that just so happened while we were working on our web pages.

Thank goodness it was not completely my fault!!

In other news, I caught a cold while in Arkansas and I have yet to shake it off. It is making me miserable! It was especially not helpful during class tonight where we watched the 2-hour long video, “Enron: The Smartest Men In The Room.” It was pretty interesting, but the best part of class came at the end when our professor announced that there would be no class next week followed by an outdoor class (possibly to be held on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial). I am excited!

Wipe Out

April 7, 2009

I was the first to work on the home page today, and it was quite an ordeal. I went to upload the web version of the home page, and the page came back blank! There were no files! I was freaking out and just knew I was fired.

Turns out … it was not me!! This happened at 9:30 a.m., and our technical support said someone erased our home page at 7:55 a.m. I do not even have access until 9 a.m.-I was happy!
Thank goodness for backups. The problem was easily solved and I was able to finish updating the headlines on the home page, http://www.phassociation.org.

Home Sweet Home

April 5, 2009

The ACM Awards are playing, my dog Izzie is chewing on her duck at my feet, and my mom is cooking me chicken and rice while I read on the couch- I am loving my weekend at home.

I am spending the weekend-Thursday through tomorrow-in Arkansas to see family and attend the Arkansas Pro Chapter of Society of Professional Journalists’ annual conference. I have to admit it was a great conference, but more on that tomorrow. 🙂

I am off to read some more!

Me in a nutshell

March 18, 2009

My roommates and I attended the Myers Briggs Type Indicator Assessment seminar and dinner tonight, which was for TWC students in my building alone that wanted to learn more about who they really are. I am a slight to moderate ISFJ.

I=Introversion
N=Intuition
F=Feeling
P=Perceiving

I have to admit-it was right on. I was reading the type profile for me and it hits me right on the head. It was an interesting perspective, especially since my roommates and I are on difference sides of the scales. Such as with Sheila, we discovered in the seminar that she is extraversion-she draw energy from being around people though she is cautious to disclose information. Meanwhile I am introversion-I draw energy from being by myself though I disclose information freely.

It was also interesting to note that I am very easy to manipulate-or persuade-and my roommates laughed and was quick to agree. I haven’t decided what I want to think on that one-though it does not really bother me.

Anyways, I did like my “characteristics frequently associated” with my ISFJs. Here’s mine:

” Quiet, friendly, responsible, and conscientious. Committed and stead in meeting their obligations. Thorough, painstaking, and accurate. Loyal, considerate, notice and remember specifics about people who are important to them, concerned with how others feel. Strive to create an orderly and harmonious environment at work and at home.”

“Plus-sized model”

March 16, 2009

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/03/16/kiss-my-fat-ass-says-meghan-mccain

This article infuriated me. How dare Laura Ingraham  mock McCain as a “Valley Girl gone awry” and a “plus-sized model” after McCain’s call for Republicans to seek a compromise with Democrats.

Of all things that Ingraham could have brought into the discussion, such as McCain’s prior remarks, views and experience, she has to choose looks and a put-down that is only centered at women. As a fellow woman, she should not allow, let alone be the one remarking, a comment on a woman’s remarks or actions be answered and commented on by her weight or other stereotypical comments. It sets the precedence for others to belittle women’s thoughts and actions without giving it serious thought.

How can women expect men to take their thoughts seriously when fellow women belittle our own thoughts and actions with snide comments about our weight and being a “valley girl,” which is basically a shallow woman who only cares about herself, clothes and money.

To make matters worse, Ingraham said it was only “teasing” and just satire that McCain should not get upset about. CNN reported Ingraham as saying, “Can I say ‘lighten up,’ or is that offensive too.” Well, she can say it, but it emphasizes her stupidity on the issue.

At least McCain got her points right when she attacked Ann Coulter as being the “face of the Republicans.” McCain never used Coulter’s weight or any other frivolous comments on Coulter as her reasons why Coulter was not the best choice. Instead, her reasons come from Coulter’s professional past and her voiced ideas and thoughts.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-03-09/my-beef-with-ann-coulter/2/

Basically it comes down to the simple fact that women need to remember- if we want to be taken seriously, we have to take ourselves seriously.