Sick Day

So I caught something nasty this week and am taking the day off to *hopefully* get better. In the meantime, I thought I'd post at least once during the month of March. Things have been pretty busy here. I'm loving my internship and I've been learning so much there, it's crazy. I'm pretty sure I've found something that I'd love to do for the rest of my life. In short, I think I would be very happy being an archivist or at least working in an archives of some sort.

In other things, earlier this month, I found out that I didn't get into either Oregon or Washington for graduate work, which in hindsight, is probably a blessing. I say this because I've been looking to some schools that have archiving programs and I found one at University of Maryland that sounds perfect. It is the History and Library Science program and if accepted, I would be able to get two Masters' degrees - one in History (and University of Maryland has Asian History!) and another in Library Sciences, allowing me to follow both of my passions. I plan on applying to this program for Fall of 2010 and in the meantime, work and prep the documents that I need to apply.

As for work, I've also been looking into getting a job at NARA (National Archives & Records Administration) while I am out here. They have this program called FCIP (Federal Career Internship Program), where I could work full time, train for a position and then after 2 years, get a more permanent position. Sadly, yesterday, the 8 positions open were "filled", so as of now, there are no more positions. However I plan on sending in the rest of my information and see if hopefully, I can eventually get a job there. In the meantime, I have other options that I can look into.

Finally, I do actually have a "job". I am an examiner for the DC edition of Examiner.com. I am the Frugal Finds Examiner and while this job isn't a full time job, its nice to be able to make some pocket change with my writing. If anyone is interested in seeing what I am writing about, here is the link to my homepage:

http://www.examiner.com/x-6092-DC-Frugal-Finds-Examiner

So far I have 2 posts, but part of the job is to write roughly 4 articles a week, so I figure there will be plenty more to come.

Anyway, that's about it for now. Hopefully, if I get better, I'll be able to write more soon. :)