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Kalinga
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Interests: Environment, Developing countries, Invertebrates, John Denver, searching for the perfect noodle bowl, consuming large amounts of sushi or otherwise aquatic life forms, mountains, tide-pools, Thailand, the avoidance of pig-brains, and folk music (much to my chagrin)
Expertise: poking people, the art of drinking coffee/tea/hot beverages, procrastinating, snarkyness, making outrageous plans that never reach fruition.
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Member Since:
9/13/2004
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| I guess I should probably mention that Braden and I got engaged last Sunday.
Braden took me to the Garfield Park Conservatory (which is one of my favorite places in the City) and we wandered around for a while. The outside gardens were open for the first time all winter and we played outside and climbed around a bit. Eventually we made our way to a pond. I immediately started poking at the pond scum (because that's how I roll, yo) which gave Braden time to "find" something in the prairie forbs growing next to the pond. He "found" a baby turtle, and asked if I wanted to hold it (this being a silly question, because of course I want to hold the baby turtle! I love the baby turtle!). Turned out to be a wooden turtle that he'd carved for me, and the ring (also wooden and carved by Braden) was inside. We did the knee thing and the "yes" thing and the smooch thing, and considered ourselves engaged. Yay!
We'll be getting married on Saturday, August 8th here in Chicago. I'll probably post pictures eventually of my engagement turtle and carved ring.
OH! Other news! I got accepted into the Chicago Teaching Fellows program, so I'll be leaving the Museum on Friday, June 5th to start my training on Monday, June 8th. It'll be intensive and long, and without a paycheck (not sure how that's gonna work yet...pray for me!), but at the end of the summer, I'll be thrown into a classroom of middle-schoolers at an at-risk school in Chicago. I'm slated to teach middle school science for the next 3-4 years. Not sure yet if I'm excited or terrified. I think it's a combination of both.
Okay, I think those are all the life-changing events I have to report.
For now.
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| ...yeah. Summer was fun. I miss those days when you can walk outside without fear of dying.
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| Got up early this morning to vote. I'm at the Museum now wearing my "Treehuggers for Obama" t-shirt and nervously checking the news every 15 minutes. They're sending us all home early today because Obama is using the Museum as his staging area before the rally in Grant Park tonight (to which I didn't get tickets...grrrrrr). Getting the the Museum to begin with was something of a struggle, with the secret service everywhere, most of the roads blocked off, the pedestrian walkways closed...It's exciting to be in the middle of the action, but ridiculously inconvenient for those of us who still have to work.
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| I'm going to be a complete basket case next week. I love Barack Obama.
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| Since I'm home sick today, and consequently bored, I decided to share some thoughts.
1. If I ever get married, I think it'll be necessary to have elephants at the ceremony. Preferably painted ones.
2. Toilet training a cat is harder than it looks.
3. This probably makes me a bad person, but I'm looking forward to Biden completely thrashing Palin in the VP debates -- part of me hopes SP ends up running off the stage in tears. Like I said, this probably makes me a bad person.
4. I called a Jewel (grocery store) on the far southeast side of Chicago (where, coincidentally enough, both I and Barack Obama have worked/are working as community organizers) this morning to order catering for an event we're doing with our teachers, and when they put me on hold, the "hold" music was John Denver. This made me happy.
5. My toes are cold, which means, I think, that fall is here.
6. There is a spell-check as a part of Xanga. This means that any and all spelling mistakes are inexcusable, and make the writer look like a goober.
7. There are some things I won't tell my parents about living in Chicago and working on the southside until after I move away. I think we'll all be happier that way.
8. Again on the subject of weddings (because I've been to 8 already this year, and have a few more to go), I wonder if the bride wears something other than white, it would be necessary to add an addendum to the program so guests understand. Something along the lines of, "Be not afraid. The choice of chartreuse over white does not mean that the bride is a woman of accommodating virtue."
9. I have nothing against hunting (I think actually serves an important function in maintaining healthy natural areas) - but from a completely ecological standpoint, one should never, NEVER hunt the predator. Ever. Not unless what you're going for is a complete upheaval of the natural order of prey/producer/predator interaction. One should especially not hunt predators from helicopters with high-powered rifles, and expect others to consider that a 'sport'. No, that's called slaughter, my friend. Along that note, one should also never (ever, ever, ever, ever) claim that the wholesale destruction of Creation is a part of God's plan. That is not only anti-Biblical, but it's rather shortsighted on your part, considering the words of judgment in the Bible for people who willingly and wantonly destroy creation. It also seems like a direct slap in the face of the Creator, who shows time and again throughout the scriptures His joy in creation completely apart from any instrumental value by human-kind.
10. Proximity to another country does not equal foreign policy capacity, awareness, or experience. Just sayin'
I'm going to go drink more tea and go back to sleep now.
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