getting my shit together.

so it has been a long time since i last blogged. i think the lack of internet in my apartment could have something to do with it, but nevertheless i am here now.

so what has happened over the last month...well i moved back up to ithaca for the summer, was squatting in a house for 2 weeks and finally last week moved into my sweet ass apartment with miss lindsey bober on college ave (conveniently behind the liquor store, and tho i myself am not 21 the majority of my friends and associates are so it makes for great enticement to come and visit me :)).

in the past month i have been hired for a job, quit that job and hired for another job. my first job was working at the center for nanoscale systems institute for physics teachers (cipt). many of you are probably wondering, ''syd, arent you a design major? why would you work at a job that had anything to do with physics and nanoscale systems and other things you clearly do not understand?'' well my answer to all of you is that a) it was very flexible, b) it paid decently and c) it had promised i would be doing community outreach with the ithaca community in its description posted on uportal. thus i embarked on my first week at cipt and began getting to know the people who worked in the center for nanoscale systems, or cns as said by the cool kids. i think it relevant to point out that cns also stands for center for nutritional sciences, which is where the real cool kids hang out...my theory is that the center for nanoscale systems is kind of like the really dorky kids in 5th grade that started wearing the big puffy tommy hilfiger winter jackets like the cool kids were wearing because they thought that by dressing like the cool kids on the outside they would henceforth be cool themselves, which we all know is clearly not the case...and this fact can be applied to the cns faculty with which i worked. i literally have never felt so awkward in my life. you the awkwardness that makes your skin tighten and makes it impossible for you to look away from the person(s)/situation? try feeling like this for 5 hours a day, 4 days a week...it starts taking its toll and you realize you need to get out.

well thats what i did...after 2 weeks of the mind-numbing awkwardness and meneal tasks (i put away packing peanuts and put together kits on ohm's law...no i do not know what ohm's law is) i left cipt and started work for another acronym, lasp which stands for latin american studies program (yes, something relating to my life and interests) and that is where i reside as we speak...

i truly enjoy my lasp time...i get to be creative and research cool things like the kuna women of panama and their artisan craft of molas and then come up with cirriculum for elementary, middle and high school art classes about mola making and then run a mini simulation with ithaca school system teachers and other people from the cornell center of international studies...aka i like what im doing for once :)

ok i think thats a good synopsis of what has been going on in my life professionally. ill try and update this more often, once linds and i find internet we can pirate.