Someone has a job!

Big news readers!! I finally got a job!
On the 1 year anniversary of the economy collapsing, and the 3 month anniversary of my internship graduation, I finally heard those words “we’d like to offer you the position”.
I will be working at the psychiatric hospital that I interviewed at last week, as the only dietitian (excuse [...]

Happy Monday!

Good Monday Morning everyone!
Hope you all had an enjoyable weekend. I spent a good chunk of yesterday making mass quantities of homemade tomato sauce. During our visit to North Carolina, we were given a basket filled with cornfield beans and 42 tomatoes! Once I get my camera and laptop up and running I’ll have to [...]

The search for a paycheck continues…

Greetings readers!
Is anyone else excited that today is 09-09-09!? How fun! I feel like I should do something special in its honor. Perhaps a cupcake is in order :)
I had a very interesting interview yesterday at a nearby psychiatric hospital. Definitely not a place I’d ever have thought I might work in – police patrolling [...]

Why yes, I am ‘funemployed’

Happy Labor Day readers!
I read an interesting article from today’s Tennessean, about the small group of unemployed 20 and 30-somethings who are taking their time off to have fun – travel, visit old friends and relatives, volunteer, take classes… basically things they wanted to do but didn’t have the time while they were working. They [...]

Back in Maryville

Yes, I made it back safe and sound to Tennessee after a whirlwind of a trip to North Carolina.
Monday: Made it to Charlotte by lunch time, after sitting on the side of a mountain for an hour while Asheville police cleared an accident (a tractor trailer….. excuse me, transfer truck flipped over taking one [...]

One more road trip, coming right up!

Although I whine and freak out about being unemployed with no prospects for an entire 2 months since graduation… I have to admit, it has been nice to have time off, go on trips and see new people and places. Let’s recap the summer’s trips thus far:
Right after graduation was a quick trip up to [...]

Please excuse the ranting…

This afternoon has not been very good so far…
After all my phone calls and emails, I finally heard back from the job that I so desperately wanted (and foolishly thought was perfect). A simple email to the effect of “thank you for the email. the position has been filled.” lovely. Thank you so much. I [...]

Greetings from the Farm!

Sorry for the lack of posts. I left Nashville a week ago and headed east, to my mom’s childhood farm just outisde of Maryville, TN. We finally got internet put in the house, but it’s dial-up so blogging is a little more difficult than usual. I’ll try to give a basic recap on what’s been [...]

Oh the fun of allergies…

Still trying to figure out what’s bothering my eyes so much – the skin around them is really getting dark and irritated, and my left eye is pretty much continually crying. Like a leaky faucet. I have a suspicion maybe it’s my new favorite laundry sheets (the all in one Purex sheets you just throw [...]

Chasing the International Space Station

So I got pretty excited when I saw on the news today that the International Space Station (ISS) would be passing over Nashville tonight at 8:30pm. So after dinner, I started roaming the neighborhood streets behind me, in search of the ISS. First up, figuring out which direction to look in. I found the South [...]