Time for a fast
I am taking a 40 day fast from the internet, with the exception of email. I need some discernment time, seeking guidance for this summer, and just finding out things besides the computer to rest me. I have been a poor steward of my time, and I need to rearrange a few things in my life. So, I will be back in 40 days. If you hav emy email, email me. Otherwise, an update will find its way back here in a lil over a month. xox, Sarah
Got job #2!
I got the lab job I wanted! Yay! Two fantastic jobs. I am happy happy happy.
Passing time
I feel like I haven't written anything meaningful on here for a while. I have been doing a lot of thinking/soul searching too and I need to process a bit more before writing. So tonight is another feathery post of little substance.
So...I went snowshoeing on Cypress today with some good friends from high school. It was a gorgeous day, too. I also saw people from school last night. This is great cuz we don't keep in touch that well and I miss them. This also made me wonder about other people I haven't talked to for a long time. And so, I spent a lot of tonight on the computer doing random things, including checking out myspace for peeps from QE. It was good, I found quite a few. I also managed to do this survey (posted on my own
myspace)and this celeb look alike thing.
It's 1am and I am hungry. But I should sleep. A dilemma.
No Longer a Bum!
Guess who has a job...? Does this mean I can't stay up til 3 and sleep til noon anymore? Well, that's growing up for you.
I am working for a company called
High Touch High Tech. Basically, I go to elementary schools as a scientist and run interactive science workshops for children. It meets one of their grade's required science learning outcomes in a fun, tangible way. I especially was drawn to this job because I think it is a great way to empower kids with scientific knowledge, and spark their interest. I also think it will be cool to show them that young women are scientists too (it's funny how that stereotype hasn't been completely dissolved yet!).
My bosses seem really nice and approachable, and the job appears to be a good fit for me. It will be nice to put my science background to use (even though I am not exactly doing microbiology...no growing cell cultures or extracting DNA, boo). I have missed working with kids though! The dairy job offers I have been hoping for haven't exactly been pouring in, so I may just end up volunteering to milk on weekends. I am still searching for a second job. One may have found me. I have a second interview at Starbuck's on Sunday, and also a Sunday interview for this PT job I really really really want at a lab. Ideally, I would love to do the teaching job daytime 4 times a week and the lab job evenings or early mornings several times a week. Starbucks is a company I have wanted to work for since I could work, but it does pay less, and I would like to be in a place that would look better for vet school and on my resume. As a uni-grad approaching her mid-twenties it's also time to get out of the service industry (not saying this in a prideful way, but in reality I need to get out of my comfort zone).
So, that's a little update for ya. Yay for me and thanks be to JC!
Just a funny remark...after Tracie and I headed home from driving the Great Ocean road (outside Melbourne), we almost hit a kangaroo! It was soooo close, and would have done tons of damage to the rental car (not good for an under 25 driver), possily us, and its poor little (large actually) self. Then when I started driving again, it kept hopping in front of the car! Suicidal kangaroo! This same ride home we almost ran out of gas in the middle of nowhere and stopped off for free coffee in this small town where we met the nicest people ever (safe driving volunteers) who fed us cake and talked to us to make sure I was alert enough to keep driving. And the stars that night...amazing. The sky was white. It was a good, beautiful, and eventful ride home.
My sis and I at Thunder Tunnel (or something like that) on Great Ocean Rd.
Christmas dinner, where I stuffed my first chicken (organic and free range).
The Twelve Apostles
Gibsons' Steps off Great Ocean Road. My favourite beach because it was so beautiful, colourful, and wild. The waves were incredible.
Steph and I in Singapore eating local foods. Deep fried squid, chilli crab, veggies, xiao mantou and coconut milk. Sooo good.
Pictures from Australia Pt 2--Byron Bay
Main Beach
Lighthouse
Viewpoint with surfer on wave
Tallows Beach (where I almost died in a wave, haha)
Windy day
Pictures from Australia Pt 1
Sydney Harbour on cloudy day (I have better Sydney pics of the beaches and stuff but left a cd behind in Aust. I will post when I get it back)
Me feeding a wallabee on Phillip Island
Central Melbourne (Tracie's pic)
Kangaroo and baby
Going out in Sydney with friends from Scotland
Learning the art of waiting
Ugh. So bored. Unproductive. So much time on my hands. I want a job. I have enough rest already, and it's only been a week. I don't have any money to spend which rules out most fun, even simple things like getting photos developed so I can sort them/play around. I've read enough, watched enough movies and tv, am constantly on the computer (how many times a day can I check email?), tidied, worked out, caught up with a several friends, revamped and revamped my resume/cove letter etc etc etc. And today I was hoping to head out but I am snowed in. I know I am complaining, and I don't like complaining so I will stop. But enough is enough. Can you say impatient, hehe? (PS My mother just described her pastry shell as gorgeous. Help me!)
Not Alone
I love being able to be honest and not feel judged. I love being able to catch up with people to find out that I am not alone in my struggles. (It is a lie from Satan that we are alone in what we go through). It's a relief. And a gift to know this. And to have people on your side, fighting with you, rooting you on. I love my friends, my sisters.
I also am quite loving the fact that Canada just won the Juniors'. And that it snowed this morning. And how cute my dogs are when they play in the snow. Sigh, it has been a good couple of days.
