I know everyone loves pictures, so here's some of my favorite subject (no, not me...), N!!
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
A new endeavor
I have not forgotten about you, dear blog. It's just been busy lately, is all. I've been packing up my office the last few days, archiving files, tying up loose ends. I was also checking in to my next assignment: a Master's program.
I will be studying full time for the next year in pursuit of a Master's degree, in a program sponsored by the State Dept. I will have little time, but I will continue to attempt to post entries of interest. Classes start next week.
I am really excited but extremely nervous. It's been so long since I use my noggin', I may have forgotten how! I'll have to start flexing that muscle again...
I will be studying full time for the next year in pursuit of a Master's degree, in a program sponsored by the State Dept. I will have little time, but I will continue to attempt to post entries of interest. Classes start next week.
I am really excited but extremely nervous. It's been so long since I use my noggin', I may have forgotten how! I'll have to start flexing that muscle again...
Friday, August 3, 2007
I need rehab
Okay, it is official. I am addicted to Facebook.
I log on several times a day, even at home, and I NEVER used the pc at home. Now I'm going nuts scanning all the old photographs I can find and "tagging" all the people whose names I can remember.
It is definitely better than MySpace and Friendster. It's easier to find people, classmates, coworkers, etc, and has a cleaner look to it. It is consistent, so you always know where to find stuff on people's different profiles. And I'm sorry, but those layouts are very annoying and distracting on MySpace!!
Best of all, ads are subtle and off to the side, I haven't gotten any spam in my inbox yet (like the crap I get in MySpace!), and it just looks more grown up and elegant. The fun applications are cutesy and kitschy, but it's easy to get rid of them to clean up your page. And my virtual garden and aquarium are growing nicely, thank you.
It almost makes me wish everyone had a facebook profile, it would make it so easy to plan get-togethers, reunions, and share photos. I feel like I fell off the face of the earth once I graduated from college and lost contact with everyone, and even worse when I went to China. Now I feel like I came home to find everyone there, a little older, married, with kids, with serious jobs, but there all along after all.
So, will someone show me the way to the nearest Facebook Rehabilitation Facility?
I log on several times a day, even at home, and I NEVER used the pc at home. Now I'm going nuts scanning all the old photographs I can find and "tagging" all the people whose names I can remember.
It is definitely better than MySpace and Friendster. It's easier to find people, classmates, coworkers, etc, and has a cleaner look to it. It is consistent, so you always know where to find stuff on people's different profiles. And I'm sorry, but those layouts are very annoying and distracting on MySpace!!
Best of all, ads are subtle and off to the side, I haven't gotten any spam in my inbox yet (like the crap I get in MySpace!), and it just looks more grown up and elegant. The fun applications are cutesy and kitschy, but it's easy to get rid of them to clean up your page. And my virtual garden and aquarium are growing nicely, thank you.
It almost makes me wish everyone had a facebook profile, it would make it so easy to plan get-togethers, reunions, and share photos. I feel like I fell off the face of the earth once I graduated from college and lost contact with everyone, and even worse when I went to China. Now I feel like I came home to find everyone there, a little older, married, with kids, with serious jobs, but there all along after all.
So, will someone show me the way to the nearest Facebook Rehabilitation Facility?
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