Sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump.
For much of the past year I have been contemplating moving out of my apartment. When I first unpacked the Subaru last January I expected staying six months – maybe a year. At the time, I just needed a place to lay my head at night [...]
Archive for June, 2009
30 days notice
Posted in all, tagged apartment searching, friendship, life, moving on on June 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
no other heaven
Posted in all, my people, tagged friends, hiking, life, mount tamalpais, new start on June 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
lades of grass tickled my fingertips as I walked with palms outstretched. Following a narrow trail snaking up more than 2,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean, I used rocks embedded into the hillside for leverage and kept my head down to avoid tripping on one of the tiny holes some animal had burrowed into the [...]
magic
Posted in all, tagged magic, nanotechnology, science on June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Magic is a convenient word to describe something we don’t understand – or for things we simply don’t want to. And to be perfectly honest, I’m kind of fine with that.
Take nanotechnology. Lately I’ve been trying to wrap my brain around the concept of growing nanotubes to use as conduits to improve the performance of [...]
Special
Posted in all, my people, tagged family, life, notes to myself on June 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A package came to the house the other day. It was from my nana and something I anticipated arriving for about a week. No, I didn’t get a new job, or a promotion, or a new apartment. (Yet.) I just have an awesome nana that occasionally mails care packages to her poor granddaughter the writer. [...]
a good story
Posted in love, my people, tagged anniversaries, family, relationships, writing on June 5, 2009 | 4 Comments »
MOM: Today is the 35th anniversary of the day your father and I met.
ME: Wow. What made you remember the date?
MOM: Because June 3rd is the day I met your father. Don’t you remember the day you met M —?
ME: No. But that’s probably why I’m not married to M—
As someone who is paid to [...]
coin tosses aside
Posted in all, tagged career advice from mom, decision making, life decisions on June 2, 2009 | 6 Comments »
For the past year I devoted much of my spare time to exploring career paths – going so far as taking the LSATs – twice, and dropping several hundred dollars on applications to law schools and public policy programs across the country – only to wind up sitting face to face with my future over [...]
