By Emily on May 12, 2013
After quite a few months of internship applications, and reconsidering whether or not I wanted to just spend the summer sizzling in Austin, and waiting, waiting, waiting to hear back, I finally got word a few weeks ago that I’ll be spending June and July interning at the Smithsonian in D.C.! This week, I finally [...]
Posted in seasons, things that make me smile, travel, working | Tagged internship, Smithsonian, summer, Washington D.C.
By Emily on December 22, 2012
It’s been a slog, these last few weeks of the semester. I pulled an all-nighter for the first time in, oh, a decade or so. I did a couple of presentations and wrote 35 pages of papers and wrapped up a group project and got a new research assistantship, all within a few days. And [...]
Posted in blog, teaching, working, writing | Tagged Gossip Girl, grading, semester's end, TA, UT
By Emily on July 20, 2012
Ironic that my last post, about finding the time to prioritize writing, was written six weeks ago. It’s quite possibly been the busiest six weeks of my life. Handed over board president reins after a hectic, but I think fairly successful, year. Three weeks in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Sweden. One last week of working. [...]
Posted in around the house, Missoula, moving, travel, working | Tagged Austin, Missoula, moving, packing, running, summer, travel
By Emily on March 20, 2012
For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils. —excerpt from “Daffodils” by William Wordsworth The first day of spring, I heard on the [...]
Posted in seasons, things that make me smile, working | Tagged daffodils, nature, spring, the blahs, wonder
By Emily on June 13, 2011
No, I didn’t forget about you, creativity project! I just decided that I needed to step away from the internet at least a little bit this weekend so that I could deal with some essential “real life” responsibilities. And also go on a Ross/TJ Maxx shopping spree. Oh, what? Yes. Most certainly. Getting back into [...]
Posted in getting crafty, photography, things that make me smile, what I'm listening to now, working
By Emily on May 31, 2011
Sometimes it takes a deadline. Once I got almost five months behind on Flickr uploading, I started to get so overwhelmed that I wondered if I would always be posting photos of snow when the flowers are blooming, whether my farmer’s market and green grass photos would need sorting as the leaves were falling. But [...]
Posted in adventures in cooking, blog, getting crafty, photography, seasons, things that make me smile, working | Tagged 30 days of creativity, catch up, Flickr, June, uploading
By Emily on March 26, 2011
I’m sorry, New York Times, but if a job seeker’s biggest concern is whether to become someone like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, or whether to take career advice from one billionaire or the other, I think they’re doing alright. Get a grip. On Monday, getting suckered into clicking on this type of absurdity will [...]
Posted in jobs schmobs, rants, working | Tagged budgeting, New York Times subscription plan, rich white dudes
By Emily on September 20, 2009
It’s funny, because lately I’ve been coming up with ideas for posts all of the time. Funny/ironic, mostly because I’ve written so little for so long. I have this great idea brewing and then I realize that I haven’t done laundry in six weeks. And I think, “I want to sit down and write, but [...]
Posted in blogs I read and like, books, design, jobs schmobs, moving, photography, working
By Emily on March 29, 2009
Isn’t life weird sometimes? After more months than I wish to count bumming around my hometown, doing a fair amount of reading and some dog walking mixed in with a lot of job applying and general internet time, all it took was one little catalyst to get things moving differently. And now, all of a [...]
Posted in jobs schmobs, Montana, photography, working | Tagged housesitting, serendipity, stationery, work
By Emily on November 6, 2008
I had to giggle (and violently shake my fist) when a friend pointed out post #105 on the site Stuff White People Like: Unpaid Internships. Over the course of my job search, I have been flabbergasted by the extent to which unpaid internships are offered as the main, and sometimes only, way to get started [...]
Posted in jobs schmobs, moving, rants, working
I like writing, photography, reading, music, design, typography, paper products, days in the seventies and sparkly snow, Spanish wine and cans of PBR. I spent a year in Córdoba, Spain, working as a language and culture assistant through the Spanish government, traveling, and writing about it here. After a few years back in my home state of Montana, I moved to Austin, Texas, where I like to go exploring, take pictures of my food, write letters, dream of far-off places, and think about concepts of home.
