Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Welcome back to my own blog!

The last few months have been an absolute whirlwind. I can't believe the last time I posted here was on V-Day! Ridiculous. Obviously, a bit of an update slash explanation is in order!

Around the end of March, a good friend of mine and I went to a job fair in DC. From there we hatched a tentative plan to perhaps move down to the "District of Awesomeness" as my friend (and now current roommate) calls it. At the end of May, my lease in NJ was up and I moved to Silver Spring, MD. My friend went on a mission trip to Malawi in the middle of June, and when she returned, we resumed our apartment hunting. The very first apartment we saw, we knew we loved, and we signed the lease. We are now currently in NoVA (Northern Virginia) living the DC life. And we both love it!

So that is the excuse behind my very-behind posting. In terms of finding a job, Washington DC is much more friendly to us entry-level, want to save the world candidates. I've been on a few interviews, and was even offered a fellowship. I turned the fellowship down because the woman I interviewed was not so professional; I had a creeping feeling in my gut that this was not where I should be. Plus the money wasn't right. Unfortunately such crappy reasons as money will hinder me from taking things like unpaid internships or low-paying fellowships...I have rent to pay!

So while I am still working at Starbucks (yuck) I am still trying to pursue my dream. I'm also taking advantage of our fairly extensive library system here in NoVA and reading quite a few good books. At some point very soon, I'll have to review them a little more extensively, but one I've finished recently is Oranges Are not the Only Fruit by Jeannette Winterstein. Currently, I have Insecure at Last by Eve Ensler on my bedside. Both are excellent! More information on them both to follow, when my Internet isn't nearly so shotty!