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today was semi-successful. when you’re unemployed, everything is relative. for me, today, especially. on the agenda was printing, copying and mailing all components of my backup plan: a return to the teaching program in spain. reason being, if i can’t find a suitable job within the next few months–anything i consider to be reasonable and [...]

No, I haven’t been picking oranges or ploughing wheat fields. I actually got to go out into the city and do some reporting stuff yesterday. From the way things appear, our methods classes have been divided up geographically. We put 2 and 2 together when we realized that many neighbors were in our individual classes. [...]

Saturday morning I awoke at 7 a.m. to prep and drive out to my district interview for the Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship.   I more or less knew what to expect: two interviews, both of about half an hour, and a short break break between.  I was to be grilled by a panel of WASPs.  I [...]

You see, the funny thing about that title is its structural ambiguity. Am I talking about a call on a rotary phone? Or am I talking about the Rotary club making a phone call? In fact, it is the latter. The former President of the local Rotary Club emailed me Monday, to which I responded, [...]

Actually, NU told applicants they’d get a decision by midnight, 3/1…which I was one of those people who thought that meant Saturday going into Sunday, 3/1, not 11:59 Sunday.  I emailed them that afternoon, in a very polite freak-out about where my admissions decision was and why it wasn’t blaring on my screen at 00:00 [...]