Category: life, work
04/10/07 06:50 - 41ºF - ID#38840
working
The second job interview was at central library, for a part-time assistant position. That's the job I am still waiting to hear about, and the one I hope I can get (I'm not really sure if I will be hired, though). It pays a little less than the telemarketing job, but it has more opportunities for advancement and promotion. I might be able to get promoted to work as an assistant with local history/archives. Plus, I just think it would be fun to work in the library.
Both positions would start at the beginning of May, so I am going to use the next couple of weeks to crunch down on finishing up my thesis as much as possible.
I was rejected at the doctoral program at UB. I think what I am going to do is defer admission to the SUNY Albany program for a semester or maybe a year, save up some money to live on and reapply for an assistantship, and then possibly go. Or maybe apply to UB law for next year. I'm interested a lot in different facets of activist law, as well as cultural and intellectual property law.
So that's my version of a boring update:).
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Category: thoughts
03/30/07 01:39 - 53ºF - ID#38696
guilty
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: photos
03/27/07 12:27 - 48ºF - ID#38652
spring
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: albany
03/24/07 05:07 - 47ºF - ID#38606
accepted
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Location: Buffalo, NY
03/15/07 12:40 - 37ºF - ID#38472
public transportation
I wonder if maybe there are some cab companies in williamsville. It's so annoying not having a car.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: music
02/20/07 11:47 - 38ºF - ID#38218
last fm
What do you estrip people usually use as far as music seeking/playing programs?
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: life
02/02/07 02:43 - 27ºF - ID#37964
it's been awhile
I moved from Elmwood to Williamsville two weeks ago. I am renting a room in a house with some people that I know. I like the place that I am living in a lot, though, I miss living in the actual city. It's easy for me to get around Williamsville and to Buffalo by day, but harder for me to get to and from the city at night (I don't own a car. There is busses at night, but only at certain times). But it's been good. It's less expensive than where I lived before, and its comfy.There is even a mini-spot coffee cafe in a grocery store a few streets away! I love cinco shakes.
I'm finished with all my master's classes, just trying to work on my thesis. Which has been a long process. I'm writing about the looting of the Iraq Museum in 2003 and the recovery of the stolen art by international organizations. It's a really interesting topic that I have enjoyed reading about, but I find it hard to actually write and organize what I have researched. Its been taking me a lot longer than I anticipated.
I am applying to PHD programs in history at UB, and a couple of other places. I think it is probably a long shot because they are selective, but I thought I might as well try. It would be cool to get "paid" to go to school, definitely. Hopefully I will be able to find a job that will work out for me here in Buffalo, if that doesn't work out. I really like the area, and would prefer not to move.
I hope everything is going well for all of you!
-Jess
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Category: news
06/04/06 07:44 - 69ºF - ID#29660
what shocks me
I found
this story online a few minutes ago. I guess after awhile, you find yourself desensitized to a lot of the violence that takes place. But this was pretty shocking to me. Sometimes you wonder what the world is coming to; but then you realize it's always been this way in some form or another.
It's interesting when I'm around people of my parents or grandparents generation and they are talking about the days when things were safer, or better for people to live in as far as violence is concerned. I'm not sure if such assumptions have a lot of veracity to them. I wonder sometimes if a heightened perception of violence is just more apparent given the increased proliferation of media sources (especially electronic and visual).
My grandparents generation, for example, is one in which millions upon millions of people died from genocide- between Hitler and Stalin. My parents generation were witness to the horrors of what went on in places like Cambodia, where a government carried out systemic violence and cultural extermination against its own people. While life in 2005 can be terrible in that people are exposed through the media to violence; it always gives the potential of making us more aware of what is going on in the world (at least in theory).
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11/08/06 11:28 - 54ºF - ID#29659
politics, tunes, and coffee
I was surprised Tom Reynolds got reelected, though... I thought people wouldn't want to support someone like that. I was no Jack Davis fan, but I never would have voted for Reynolds if I was in that district.
Any good music that you would recommend? Lately, I've been kind of all over the place in my musical tastes. I like to try most anything except a lot of the commercial rap/country/pop that you hear on the radio or mtv lately.
I should get coffee and get back to working on the "thesis of doom". Theoretically.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: buffalo
10/26/06 05:05 - 45ºF - ID#29657
Halloween
I moved here from Jimmytown a year ago and was curious. Last year, I sort of eschewed the Halloween thing to hang out at spot coffee for a date.It was actually really fun... if not kind of an odd day for a first date with someone.
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As for UB, it's their loss. You're probably doing the right thing by spending some time saving up money and "casting your net wide" and looking other schools.