{Gratituesday: September 25, 2012}
Today I am grateful for…
- Finishing up my first month at my new job, and really enjoying it even when it’s hectic.
- Having a studio apartment I absolutely love
- My parents offering to bring up the new cat this weekend so she can live with me
- The awesome summer experience I had (I’m feel very nostalgic now that I’m starting up classes again and summer is officially over)
- The amazing fall weather Chicago is having this week
- Finally getting my iPhone replaced after I broke mine in July (it’s dumb, but it makes life so much more convenient)
- The nice messages I received after I changed my avatar to a picture where you can actually see me.
- That I did not get a parking ticket for parking longer than two hours. I lost track of time at work and was 20 minutes late moving my car.
{Gratituesday: August 28, 2012}
Today I am grateful for…
- Surviving my first day of my new (and first real) full-time job
- Enjoying my workday and having really awesome coworkers (at least after one day :P)
- Nailing down an apartment lease last weekend for the building I’ve wanted to live in for 3+ years
- Being able to have real health insurance for the first time in 2.5 years starting Saturday!
- The possibility of seeing a handful of people from my summer job when they pass through Chicago later this week.
{Gratituesday: July 24, 2012}
It has been a really long time since I have done any of my weekly memes. This job has been ridiculously busy, crazy, and most of the time really great, but it hasn’t left much time for Tumblr-ing or much else.
So while I am waiting to head over to the dining hall for lunch…I am grateful for:
- All the amazing people I’ve been working with the past four weeks and will continue to work with for the next three.
- Having the opportunity to have such a baller summer gig, despite the inherent challenges. I don’t know of any other job with free housing, free meals, a salary, and the opportunity to chaperone trips to crazy awesome places (e.g. NYC, Broadway shows) and get paid for it. Plus I’m getting some awesome campus programming and teaching experience.
- That my parents are trying to be helpful in my apartment search back in Chicago while I’m on the East Coast. When I get back I’ll have two weeks to find a place to live, so they’re trying to make it easier for me by trying to narrow some places down.
- That I’ll get to see my puppy in 3 weeks! I miss her like crazy. I’m also grateful for the people who bring their puppies to the park every morning so I can at least get some puppy playtime in my day, even though it’s not my puppy.
- To being healthy and having a rockstar immune system. A lot of the staff and the students have come down with all sorts of crazy illnesses while they’ve been here, and I’ve made it through thus far (knock on wood) with just a few brief sore throats and/or being nauseous for a few hours (or the minor headache/stomach ache I have right now). I haven’t been knocked out with bronchitis or the stomach flu that other people have had, so I’m very happy about that, especially considering we all share drinks when we go out and live in close quarters.
- Having a night off tonight - it will either be spent catching up on sleep or at weekly trivia, depending on how much energy I conjure up after I’m done teaching and meeting for the day.
{Gratituesday: June 26, 2012}
I almost forgot about it! I have no concept of time or what day it is or anything. Between jet lag, time zone changes (albeit a change of one hour) and being thrown right into work craziness, I don’t know which way is up. But nevertheless…
Today I am grateful for:
- This amazing experience I’ve had in New England thus far for my summer job. I’m loving it. It’s just going to get more crazy, but hopefully it stays as awesome as it’s been the past three days.
- Officially accepting my full-time job that I’ll be starting in the fall. I have my start date solidified, and have scheduled my orientation with HR.
- The opportunity to apparently be interviewed for an alumni magazine on successful alumni. I was not aware that I was considered a successful alumni, but I will take it!
- My graduate assistantship being cool about me backing out of the position I agreed to for next year in order to take the full-time job. I work with cool people (or rather I would have worked with cool people. But, I’m sure my new coworkers will also be awesome).
Lots of work-related things this week!
Stay tuned for more pictures and stories once I get a chance to breathe.
{Gratituesday: June 19, 2012}
Today I am grateful for:
- An amazing job offer that came in yesterday.
- Rockstar dancers who have been making teaching my summer dance concert piece in just 3 rehearsals super easy and not at all stressful.
- Being able to work with awesome dancers at my old dance studio last week when I subbed a class, which I’ll be doing again tomorrow.
- The challenge of working and living somewhere completely new (Connecticut) for two months this summer. I leave on Saturday, so this is my last gratituesday from good ol’ Chicago for a long time.
- That for once everything is coming together and working out well. It sure took a long time to get here, but I’m excited for everything that is happening (at least professionally). Here’s hoping nothing comes along to screw it up :P
{Gratituesday: June 12, 2012}
Today I am grateful for:
- My puppy curling up in my lap for 2 hours this afternoon when I wasn’t feeling well and cuddling with me
- Getting my dance rehearsal space for tomorrow
- A decent Skype interview this morning
- The opportunity to teach at my former dance studio later this week (and next)
{Gratituesday: June 5, 2012}
Today I am grateful for:
- Being done with classes until next year :)
- My dad agreeing to drive me to the airport at 4am when I leave for my summer job
- Having a pretty decent first meeting with my future boss (for next fall) and the person currently in the position
- Being able to see friends I haven’t seen in awhile later this week
- Moving out of my apartment tomorrow and having some time at home before I leave for two months.
{Gratituesday: May 29, 2012}
Today I am grateful for…
- Being done with one of my least favorite classes ever as of 9pm tonight. Just a few final edits on my final paper to go, and then it’s all over.
- Having *most* of the long weekend to myself when my roommate went to her boyfriend’s family’s house for the weekend. My introverted, stressed out self loves solitude, especially after the nightmare that was Friday night in my apartment
- That I move out of my apartment one week from tomorrow and will hopefully be rather stress free until I leave for New England
- An intense job interview I have tomorrow, and my favorite dance class tomorrow night.
- Having the opportunity to be involved with an amazing freshman development program this spring at work. The graduation ceremony is later this week (a full post will be made on my grad school blog at some point).
{Gratituesday: May 22, 2012}
Barely making this post before Tuesday is over. Crazy day! Anyway. Today I am grateful for:
- The opportunity to teach and work with five amazing freshmen in a leadership course (today was the last day)
- To almost be done with my first year of my new grad program
- To have accepted a position for next year which will make the next few months and next year much less stressful
- For the opportunity to live in New England this summer for 2 months (I’m getting super excited, but also very anxious.)
- To be able to teach a few dance classes at my old studio in the next few weeks.
- For my [generally decent] health. I found out tonight a young woman I know is going through ovarian cancer, and that’s terrifying. She’s younger than I am.
{Gratituesday: May 15, 2012}
Today I am grateful for:
- Two lovely dinners out with my parents and brother over the weekend
- The few headache-free hours I had over the weekend (really ready to not have my headache anymore)
- Being able to choreograph for the summer dance concert even though I won’t be there
- Having a few possible job offers for the upcoming year
{Gratituesday: May 08, 2012}
Today I am grateful for:
- Having the apartment to myself for a 3.5 day weekend, giving me a chance to catch up on sleep, relax, and enjoy solitude
- By the same token, still having the motivation to be social while enjoying the solitude (in other words, I’ve always assumed that if I lived alone I would never go out, but being alone for a few days made me more eager to go out on Saturday night.) This realization is giving me the courage to live on my own next year.
- The google “Search by image” option. It’s helped me find many products, articles, and other random information I’ve been looking for.
- Having the opportunity to be president of my graduate school program association for the upcoming year
- The delicious free breakfast at work this morning, which was just what I needed to get me through a long day.
{Gratituesday: May 1, 2012}
Today/this week I am grateful for:
- the opportunity to have solitude this weekend while my roommate is at her friend’s graduation out of state.
- not having any more written assignments until finals week for grad school classes, which will give me more time to read for fun, be social, and exercise
- having a four day weekend last weekend. Even though I didn’t get as much sleep as I wanted or do everything I wanted get done since I was sick, it was still refreshing.
- plans to see friends I haven’t seen in awhile this upcoming weekend (and hopefully we all follow through on our intentions to get together)
- the little Google search bar in my Firefox toolbar that lets me Google words quickly to get their definition to make sure I’m using them correctly in an email/blog post/etc.
