Friday, January 26, 2007
(It's Been) One Year
Today was supposed to be my last workday as an AmeriCorps VISTA. I have been doing this for one year now, give or take a few days. I don't know if my experience has been that of a typical VISTA year. I sure feel as if I spent a lot more time in the office then I would have expected. And I feel like I had a lot less daily person-to-person interaction than I expected. Then again, on the other hand I never expected to be attending meetings with city mayors' and members of the governor's staff; I never expected to be travelling to various trainings and conferences on the Federal Governments' dime. I never expected to be known by name by the guards at a National Guard Base. I still don't expect that one, but it happens.
Of course there were those times spent in senior centers, in community centers, in schools, where I talked about disaster preparations and told people how to be safe at home during and after disasters. Those were good days. Those were really good days.
A lot has happened in a year. And needless to say today was not my last day, instead I have re-upped for another month until hopefully March 1st when I can begin a full-time staff position at my current workplace. That will be nice.
You know, I don't starve now and in fact I don't even feel like I have it all that bad at all. I make rent and bills, I have a semi-social life. But I wonder how life will change when I begin to make more than $800 a month? Such thoughts...eh.
I was talking to my Dad on the phone this week and he said something to the effect of "Well, I guess that's your home now." I think about that a lot. Part of me is so ready to move on. But the rational part of me says wait two years. So maybe that is what I do. I get the sensation that a lot of what I'm involved in and beginning--inside and outside of the workplace--will be at a good place two years from now. And I guess also that I am supposed to be a part of those two years.
We'll see. I still have a month to back out. Still have a month to pack up everything and move to Asia. But you know...I probably won't.
After all, a lot has happened in a year. The thing is though, lately I have been feeling as if everything that happened in my life last year...well it happened last year. Not this year, not yet anyways. Hold on, I think I just had a breakthrough as I was writing. I need to make sure and bill myself for that later.
Wow. I can't believe it's been one year. And what a year it has been! I have eaten A LOT of pasta this year. I am talking wheel barrow dimensions. Oil drums. Dump trucks full of pasta, that's how much I consumed in 2006. And 2007, I had some for dinner tonight. And it's so cold outside tonight--11 degrees and falling at 8:40--so I'm not going to burn any of that off. Not tonight. Not this weekend.
Next week. Next year. There's a lot in the planning stages for next week; next year. That's dangerous--and maybe stupid--but it's what I got going on. ¶ 1/26/2007 08:21:00 PM
Of course there were those times spent in senior centers, in community centers, in schools, where I talked about disaster preparations and told people how to be safe at home during and after disasters. Those were good days. Those were really good days.
A lot has happened in a year. And needless to say today was not my last day, instead I have re-upped for another month until hopefully March 1st when I can begin a full-time staff position at my current workplace. That will be nice.
You know, I don't starve now and in fact I don't even feel like I have it all that bad at all. I make rent and bills, I have a semi-social life. But I wonder how life will change when I begin to make more than $800 a month? Such thoughts...eh.
I was talking to my Dad on the phone this week and he said something to the effect of "Well, I guess that's your home now." I think about that a lot. Part of me is so ready to move on. But the rational part of me says wait two years. So maybe that is what I do. I get the sensation that a lot of what I'm involved in and beginning--inside and outside of the workplace--will be at a good place two years from now. And I guess also that I am supposed to be a part of those two years.
We'll see. I still have a month to back out. Still have a month to pack up everything and move to Asia. But you know...I probably won't.
After all, a lot has happened in a year. The thing is though, lately I have been feeling as if everything that happened in my life last year...well it happened last year. Not this year, not yet anyways. Hold on, I think I just had a breakthrough as I was writing. I need to make sure and bill myself for that later.
Wow. I can't believe it's been one year. And what a year it has been! I have eaten A LOT of pasta this year. I am talking wheel barrow dimensions. Oil drums. Dump trucks full of pasta, that's how much I consumed in 2006. And 2007, I had some for dinner tonight. And it's so cold outside tonight--11 degrees and falling at 8:40--so I'm not going to burn any of that off. Not tonight. Not this weekend.
Next week. Next year. There's a lot in the planning stages for next week; next year. That's dangerous--and maybe stupid--but it's what I got going on. ¶ 1/26/2007 08:21:00 PM
