Prospective Careers

These are some of the careers I've sniffed out while job-hunting during the last few weeks:

Editorial Assistant
Continuous Improvement Engineer
Epidemiologist
Constable
Dean, Law School
Animal Cage Washer
Chief of Party
Sous Chef
High-Voltage Electrician
Greeter
Someone To Clean My Condo

I love the variety. The world is my oyster.

Reunited and it feels so good...

This week of discovery continues!

There are three belongings that I haven't seen since leaving the dorms last May, all of varying importance.

1. My portable flash drive. Big disappointment. Dozens of essays, poems, stories, and graphics were stored on my thumb drive. I'm lucky to have copied some of these to my laptop a few weeks earlier.

2. A white canvas jacket. This was supposed to dress up a skirt I'd purchased a month earlier. Very cute.

3. Dressy flip flops. As my only sole choice of footwear in 45+ degree weather, I love flip flops, yet never found just the right replacement for these...

I've missed these items throughout the summer, fall, and winter. I've cursed my packing skills and sheepishly regarded my poor housekeeping time and time again:


But then, everything changed. While storing suitcases a few days ago, Mum rediscovered the one thing I had missed most:
Yeah, the jacket was cute, and the thumb drive was necessary, but come on ... wouldn't you be excited to see these again?

Design-a-Calendar 1999

My efforts to reduce clutter have led to my throwing out five things everyday. It can be junk, old clothes, books, or unnecessary toys. One day, the progress will be noticeable. I think it'll be when all of my clothes fit comfortably in the bureau.

Today I wandered down to a box of activity books, which was never unpacked after we moved out of my childhood home ten years ago. Inside, I found one of the better presents of my life: Design-a-Calendar 1999: Countdown to the year 2000!

This was the coloring book of calendars. You drew the main illustration and colored little images around the page. THEN you mauled the pages with your choice of 140 appointment/holiday stickers. Too cool.

For instance, this is June. Obviously I had a very healthy attitude regarding the start of summer.

And this is the page for August:

Don't you love it? I'd learned how to boogie board and was enthralled. Let's take a look at that. See how joyous I was, right at the front of the wave:

I imagine everyone should be so happy to fly over the sea with hair billowing and letters flying.