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| I don’t suppose anyone still has a copy of that high school science class video with Dr Salaski & ZippityzipbebopPOP… with the bloopers of an exploding ufo & “she thinks my tractors sexy” do they? | | |
| So I just got back from my NC beach trip vacation. Here are a few photos:
The trip down was uneventful, saw alot of red, white, & blue NO OLF signs all over several counties in eastern NC.
I started out in Roanoke seeing lost colony mystery stuff & first english born child in america.
The Elizabeth II:
The memorial in Kitty Hawk:
The monument in Kill Devil Hills (there was on one side of the hill a runway where they did the flights, & on the other a nearly life size replica of the plane)
The jockey ridge sand dunes at Nags Head (if you look closely, you'll see 2 ppl in the background there. there were also hang glider lessons going on here):
On the road again... there were alot of bridges in the outer banks:
Hatteras:
Bodie Island Lighthouse:
Bath, the oldest incorporated town in NC. It was one of my personal favorite places to visit. It's not exactly on the coast, but its still a port city that Blackbeard was supposed to have visited (& married a local girl there):
New Bern, what was once NC's capital. Tryon Palace:
Stemmermans Inn. It was in historic downtown wilmington, walking distance of everything, had a great view, was a 2 story room, with a nicely sized flatscreen tv w/ cable.
This place had some of the best seafood I had on the trip.
Of course I had to check out UNC Wilmingtons campus
Wings at Wrightsville beach.
Estuariam in Washington:
Serpentarium in Wilmington:
Aquarium in Fort Fisher around the Carolina Beach/Kure Beach area:
USS North Carolina. AKA The Showboat. Built as a flagship for WWII. It now lives in Wilmington. You can see a little model version of it in front, & the real thing in the back:
I took nearly a thousand pictures and put nearly a thousand miles on the car over the course of the week. This is hardly an accurate representation of all the places I went. I just picked out a few and tried to grasp the feel of trip with the road trip travel time, the adventure, & the colonization & pirate stuff etc.
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Also this birthday party event was fun:
It was the second rally of Edwards I've been to. I really appreciated having a $15 event to meet and briefly chat with a presidential candidate rather than the typical standard of having to drop a few thousand to speak to a presidential candidate.
In other news, Ted is in Rome for the summer, which is only due to democratic congressman Price's help who put in a personal request to get it done since the new Bush administration requirements on passports for US citizens to fly to even nearby places like Canada have jammed the system up so much that it has nearly doubled the time it takes to get one, and I'm about 2 months away from having held a full time job for a year.
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| I made a list of several of the places & events I wanted to experience while I’m living in the Chapel Hill/Carrboro area and have now been able to check them all off. If you have any ideas for things I should add to the list, let me know.
Varsity theater-
Planetarium-
Chapel Hill Museum-
Ackland Art Museum-
NC Botanical Gardens-
Time Out -
Top of the Hill -
Town Hall -
Explore Campus -
Franklin St Halloween-
Lumina Theater-
Chelsea Theater-
Timberlyne Theater-
Weaver Street Market-
Ultimate Comics-
Chapel Hill Comics-
University Mall-
Bars/restaurants in downtown chapel hill/carrboro-
Public Library-
Court house/post office-
I’ve also been going to management workshops & doing a lot of special events to build my resume lately that should make getting promotions or finding a better job easier to do.
And my biggest news of late is that I was published in NCSU's Undergraduate Research Journal & got my copy of it in the mail yesterday. It took a year after graduating, but it’s nice to have done something with my degree. Philosophy obviously isn’t a very vocational degree, but atleast now it got me a shiny new line for my resume.
Over the weekend I got to do the free comic book day thing, see spiderman 3, and go to a greek festival they held at a local highschool which had some cool stuff for sell, and some great food including a delicious powdered sugar bread thing with nuts.
And congrats!!! to any of the recent college graduates that might read this. | | |
| So as of today I am a real full time employee. Done with the 3 week training period & done now with the 3 month trail period. I now health/dental insurance. And I am now eligable for a review for a raise as early as the new year. Also one of the former employees at the vet clinic is now the receptionist at the classics dept at UNC, so that brings hope to my getting an on campus job while going to school down the road plan. Also, she looks like a ninja, so I'm not sure how much that weighed in her favor. | | |
| I find that I miss philosophy. Even with the URJ publication, its not enough. I've decided to definitely reapply in a year from now once the publication has gone through. So I hope to be able to start grad school by the fall of 08.
I've always been fond of animals. But thats a good reason to have pets, not a good enough reason to stay a receptionist at a vet clinic forever. Spending my days at a vet clinc, and my nights getting drunk with the classics grad students watching movies on Murphy Hall's big screen has been fun...
But I miss leading groups and my fraternity, I miss creating charities fund raisers, creating new clubs on campus, and having real academic discussions and symposiums and debates in public forums and classrooms that change people's minds on important issues, rather than hearing gossip at work about peoples boyfriends and girlfriends and who did what over the weekend.
So I've decided to return to academics. | | |
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