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Name: Christina
Birthday: 9/19/1984
Gender: Female
Interests: Psychology, music, life, friends, movies, reading, talking, artsy stuff, and lots more of course. ~_^
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8/26/2003
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| oh dear oh dear oh dear.
Leave Xanga for six months, come back, and you have no idea how to use anything anymore! How did this happen?! This place is looking more and more like Facebook all the time, especially with the silly newsfeed type thing and the credits and the new home page... Is there any way to go back to the way things were last summer? Maybe I'll just have to migrate to Blogger if I'm to get back to a boring (simple) blogging platform. But then I'd lose what readership I doubt I still have... Ah well. We'll see.
Anyway, I doubt I'm back for real, so don't get your hopes up. Honestly I don't know why I'm sitting here blogging at near-midnight on a Saturday evening when I should be getting ready for bed or doing something productive like sorting laundry, lol... I guess I've just missed the writing. The hand-written diary I used to keep has gotten so far behind I don't really bother with it anymore, the blogs just aren't that fun and I'm too busy to keep up with everyone else's... Welcome to the newest stage in life, I suppose: THE REAL WORLD. And I don't mean the TV show.
Basic rundown of the last six months:
> Got a job at a law firm in July as a kind of admin assistant. It's ok, I'm learning a lot, but it's not my dream job by any means. No I don't really want to go to law school or anything. No, I don't really want to be a paralegal. We'll see where I end up. In the meantime, I tell people that I like what I do well enough, I like the people I work with, and it's a nice place to be until I figure out where I'm headed next.
> Got an apartment with my boyfriend, Jason. It's been a challenging road, but things are doing well. In fact...
> Jason and I got engaged on Dec 22, 2007! No plans yet for a wedding but for now I'll say "probably Spring 2009."
Really, that's about it. Nothing too major and exciting... Just life plodding along. I'm pretty tired so that's about all but I thought I'd at least pop my head in and say "hi" before trundling off to bed! Hope you all are doing well, had Merry Christmases and Hanukkahs and New Yearses and all that such.
 C
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| Did you receive this address from a friend, with encouragement to send a holiday card to a recovering soldier?
To A Recovering American Soldier
c/o Walter Reed Army Medical Center
6900 Georgia Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20307-5001
Unfortunately, after a 2001 Department of Defense Policy, Walter Reed cannot accept cards, so don't waste the postage! The US Postal Service won't deliver them either. It's disappointing, yes, but the policy was designed to "ensure the safety and well being of patients and staff."*
Here are some other great ways to help our troops, though:
+ LetsSayThanks.com: Send a card to American Soldiers overseas thanks to Xerox and another great organization, Give2TheTroops. (www.give2thetroops.org)
+ Post a message on www4.army.mil/ocpa/tooursoldiers/
+ Send a care package via Operation USO Care Package (www.usocares.org)
+ FallenHeroesFund.org: Provides special funds to families of military personnel lost in service and to severely wounded military personnel and veterans.
+ FisherHouse.org: This organization builds and maintains houses at military medical centers where families can stay for free while they visit their recovering service members.
+ Check out the many other ways you can help our troops at home and abroad at www.americasupportsyou.mil
Pass this information along to anyone you know who is thinking of sending a card to an American soldier this season, or those who you think would appreciate the above links. Although we can't send cards ourselves, there are many ways we can show our support and appreciation of our troops this holiday season and year-round.
*(See www.wramc.amedd.army.mil/Lists/WRNews/DispForm.aspx?Id=24&)
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| job search drama: the recruiter
So I interviewed with a recruiter last Monday (not a company recruiter, this is one who works for a staffing agency). Interview went fantastically well; they loved me. Then I don't hear for them for several days. In the meantime I talk to two other recruiters who set up immediate interviews with the companies they're working with, both of which also go well. (So I know it's not a problem of me not being a good candidate.) As of right now, I still don't have an interview for the job the first recruiter is working to fill. Should I be skeptical? Also consider they've still not been able to get me a solid job description in over a week. Granted, the company with the job opening is an international company that just relocated its HQ to this area so they're still getting themselves organized, but really, should it be taking this long? Everyone else I've worked with has been much more eager to get me in for an interview so I can hurry up and get a paying job... And I should have an offer on Monday for one of them. What's with this first guy? Sheesh! I would totally blow him off, but the position seemed kind of cool... I'm just anxious to get things rolling since I want to get back to the company that's made me an offer, you know?
Yeah, yeah, this post shows I'm not totally gone from Xanga.
Don't get excited though. I just needed a spot to rant.
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| it's better to be absolutely
ridiculous
than absolutely boring.
-marilyn monroe
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| the end of an era...
...and the start of another
Well, I think we're nearing the end, folks. It's been a month now since I wrote on this blog. I just don't really have the energy or the motivation for it any more. I have Premium til October so I'll likely
pop in every now and then until then... but I don't really have the
energy for it like I used to. I don't really read any other blogs on Xanga other than my mom's, and even when I do I rarely bother to
comment... Eh. I guess I've just grown out of it; it's served its
purpose. (Originally I started the blog to keep people up to date on how College was going.) Even if I've not, I just don't really have the time for it. Maybe I'll be back one day, though. We'll see.
For those few of you wondering, Graduation was great, although it went by in a blur. Afterward I had some time to unwind though, which was nice— Jason and I spent the week in Williamsburg doing all the touristy things down there before going back home. I've spent the past few weeks unpacking and relaxing, but now I'm buckling down to finding a job. So far things have been going really well with that, too! Jason has been a wonderful help. He already has a fabulous job and has been helping me with my job hunt as well as searching for stuff we'll need when we move in together in July. We're not engaged yet, but he's been teasing me about proposing for a few weeks now and although he says "sometime in the next six months" I'm sure it will be much sooner rather than later. Our relationship has been doing really well now that I'm not 3 hours away, and we're getting excited about everything that is to come for us. Every day I am astounded at how much God has blessed me in the past year...
> I graduated from a fantastic school!
> I have an amazing, adorable, wonderful-in-every-way boyfriend who's head over heels for me ^_^
> We had wonderful luck finding a great and cheap apartment (especially for the DC area!)
> I have good job prospects!
> The family has good health, mom's not gotten worse and I've lost my Weeks-Up-To-And-During-Finals weight gain
> The cats have some health problems right now but they're happy and things are managable.
> Dad's been helping me a lot with getting started on Adult Things
> My sister is even more amazing than she was a year ago before college... (I am so proud of her!)
...and that's just a partial list. ^_^ In some ways I'm afraid to tell people how well I'm doing right now for fear that I'll break the pattern and something horrible will happen... but even then I have fantastic friends, a loving and supportive family, a great boyfriend, and of course my faith to get me through.
On that note, then, I believe this might be farewell, if only a temporary farewell. Take care, dear Xanga readers, and God bless!
-Christina
- Life -
Man comes into this world without his consent and leaves against
his will, during his stay on Earth, his time is spent in one
continual round of contrarys and misunderstandings. In his infancy
he is an angel; in his boyhood he is a devil, and in his
manhood and is everything from a skunk up. In his duties he's a
fool. If he raises a family he is a chump; if he raises a check the
law turns around and raises hell with him. If he is a poor man, he is
a poor manager and has no sense. If he is rich, he is dishonest, but
considered smart. If he is in politics you can't place him, because
he is an undesirable citizen: If he goes to church, he is a
hypocrite; if he stays away from church he is a sinner. If he
donates to foreign missions, he does it for show. If he does not, he
is stingy and close-fisted. When he comes into the world, everyone wants to kiss
him and when he goes out, everyone wants to kick him. If he died
young, there was a great future before him but if he lives to a ripe
old age he is in the way, living only to save funeral expenses. Life
is a funny road, but we all like to travel it just the same.
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