11:59a

holiday
it is about that time for one of these day offs for me.
i have been spending too many of my waking hours
hunched over on my computer at my job. arrrgggghhh!!!!
I want to help, so I do what I can. but dammit, the workload is just
too much sometimes.

I'm handling it much better emotionally, though.
besides that, I am making plans to move forward after April passes.
I commited to staying for at least one year, and to be honest, i think
that is all I can devote of my energy, time and physical health at this job.
it's time for me to seek greener pastures, so to speak.

It's difficult, though, because as is always the case,
i haven't figured out that one thing I want to devote to (job-wise).
I do know what my "life's work" is, but sometimes I have a difficult time
translating that to a job.
I'm pretty much resigned to the fact that there isn't that ONE job for me...
that i will most likely journey through different capacities of the social work/education/social justice
world.
It's kinda like doing those majors in college where you create it yourself...I think it's called
something like, "Interdepartmental Studies" or something???

I (heart) New York!
besides working too many hours a week, I am still alive.
just Thursday night, I booked our flight to New York,
yes, I am actually TRAVELLING, in MAY!!!!

I'm so freakin' excited!!! We are staying there for a week, primarily to
visit my cousin, who will be graduating that week with her Masters in Public Health Administration
from Columbia. but we will also be taking in everything that New York has to offer.
We've already got our first event set: watching the Mariners and Yankees play at Yankees Stadium.
We also have our lodging set: we'll be staying with our friends, Elaine and Al, in New Jersey. Yippeee!

Let's see...so far, some of the things we want to do while we are there:
1. visit museums: The Guggenheim, The Met
2. catch a Broadway play
3. hopefully get to attend my cousin's graduation (if she can get enough tix). otherwise, we'll celebrate with her afterwards
4. go clubbing til 6am
5. go to Central Park
6. visit the World Trade Center area
7. hang out in Greenwich Village, Soho, Little Italy, Spanish Harlem
8. visit as many friends who live there
9. get tix to The Dave Letterman Show
10. hang outside MTV's TRL while they are taping live
11. EAT at all the great places my cousin talks about: Serendipity, that steak place (dunno the name), the Cuban-Chinese restaurant near Columbia, etc., etc.
12. shop at HM
13. walk along Park Avenue
14. more later...gotta continue with my research

would love to take any other suggestions, too!