09/28/03 – 09/28/09

6 years is exactly how long it has been since nathan and i began dating.
we officially began our relationship at starbucks over carmel apple cider in the late evening after some awkward talking and sharing of newspapers and games.
let’s take a look back at our journey together </ cheeseball >
our first picture together on a [...]

photography

with a friend’s camera, i’ve had the opportunity to take some neato pictures over the last 2 weeks. i brought the camera to nathan’s dad’s wedding, took my sister’s senior pictures, and took my friend amanda’s yoga portraits. i feel like i’m getting the hang of this photography thing. when i picked up the camera [...]

productivity theory

i’ve never read this anywhere before, but i can’t claim it to be original. this is my theory for maximum workplace productivity. doesn’t it sound exciting? i have their theory that by using this method, most office work would be completely quicker, more efficiently, and by happier employees.
i think that there should be just [...]

things before 30

while archiving my blogs (see previous entry), i came across this random list of things i wanted to do before i turned 30. i wrote this when i was 17 and had 13 years to accomplish everything. now i have 7 years to accomplish it. still a bit of time, but a little alarming. and [...]

archives

i decided to find my oldest blog entries and archive them by copy and pasting them to a rtf document. it randomly occurred to me that since I haven’t logged into those accounts in over 6 years, servers might be set to delete them. although the entries are absolutely ridiculous, they are still what was [...]

oh it’s 9/11 again.

comes around every year i see.
it feels stupid to feel pain for 9/11 when you weren’t there, knew no one affected, and have never been to new york. i think it’s pain from seeing what people were going through, i guess. it seems like the older i get, the harder it is to watch old [...]

really? REALLY?

president: “i would like to talk to your children about having responsibility for their education and staying in school.”
americans: “OH MY GOD NO SATAN WHAHRRGRABLE”
and that is what the united states has turned into.
whatever happened to having respect for the office of the president? whether you agree with him or not, like him or not, [...]

Career Placement

So when I was looking around on the IU alumni website, I saw a career placement thingy. One of those long survey things that gives you an overall idea of the kind of person you are and what career would fit you best. So I did it for fun to see what would come up [...]