As much as I complain about work from time to time, It's days like this when I love my company. It's Veteran's Day, and my company is demonstrating its patriotism by giving all its employees the day off. SCORE. It also does this for Columbus Day, MLK Jr. Day, and President's Day. I am proud of my company's patriotism.
So now I'm at Caribou trying to gather the motivation to start my statement of intent for my grad school app. I got a decent outline yesterday, but now I must begin the real deal. There are quite a lot of people at Caribou for a Monday. They must all work for the government or for financial institutions. Back to my statement of intent; now, many of you may be asking: (or not - but I'll tell you anyway) Colleen, why do you want to go to grad school? How will this help your career? What do you want to do?
Alas, I have no solid answer to this question, only ambiguous dreams. So I will throw those ambigous dreams out there. See, I want to become a specialist kinda, in journalism on a topic and learn how to most effectively spread my message. I would like to minor in human rights while in school for an M.A. in mass comm. So then I would have more of a chance of getting a job with an NGO or with a governmental organization and work for one of those in communication or be a subject expert. Or --- having a master's of any kind would enable me to work for a university, directly with students. So the way I see it -- it would open doors for opportunities in fields that interest me. Who knows, my future's an open book, the world is my oyster.
Back to Caribou, I hate it when people talk really really loud on their phones when they are sitting at the table next to you. I also get uncomfortable when random men compliment my outfit at coffee shops - even if their intent is innocent. And the worst situation you can find yourself in at a coffee shop happened to Molly and I yesterday; we found ourselves right next to a father and daughter having a confrontational conversation, and being right next to them, we felt really awkward. What we gathered from the situation was the daughter (teenage) had a house party and was denying it and calling her dad an asshole and the father was calmly trying to get some info from her and talk to her about why he was upset. I felt bad for the dad. Makes me not want to have teenagers.
OK I'm going to start on my essay now, if I can somehow drain out the loud guy selling something on the phone next to me. Peace. Happy Vet's Day:)
7 comments:
Beanie,
Your paragraphs were really long on this post, plus I couldn't see where the post ended without scrolling down either. It could have been three pages long, for all I knew. But, I toughed it out and read it all anyway. That's how much I value our friendship. :)
Ah - I made the number one faux paux in web communication --- not leaving any white space at the end. Thanks for reading it anyway. Although, it wasn't as long as the one I wrote last Mon.
Cheers
I think I want a graduate degree for the exact same reasons you do Colleen - ambigous ones.
I hope you are enjoying your day off. I'm still jealous.
Vetrans and MLK, jr. I can see. Presidents... maybe. Columbus? COLUMBUS? Words can't express how much I dissapprove of that.
Mike - we're easily bought. Sure Columbus killed lots of Indians... but we get the day off... so...
I get April 20 off for Hilter Day so I guess I can't complain :)
... and by Hilter I mean Hitler
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