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Archive for July, 2008
07.30.2008 | the reconnecting continues
Last week I wrote about an 8-year search coming to a close with the help of some Googling and perseverance. I finally found Clare and got in touch with her.
Well it gets better.
Today I got an email through the contact form I put up a few days ago:
Jenn omg i cant beleive i found you !! its hollie from belfast that stayed at your house in 1999!! please get bk !! xx
Continue Reading »07.28.2008 | 15 seconds
15 seconds of Internet fame that is. MyBlogLog released their new site design today and my avatar is on the logged out homepage! Check it out!
07.24.2008 | reconnection
This morning the Internet finally came through for me.
For some backgruond, Clare is a girl that my mom and I hosted back when I was 12 or so through a program called Project Children. The program brings young kids from Northern Ireland to the US for the summer where they can experience a “normal childhood” for a summer away from all of the “troubles”. It was one of the best summers of my life. Clare and I kept in touch through letters and things for a few years after she left, but sometime around the start of high school, we lost touch. I’ve been trying to find her ever since.
Continue Reading »07.22.2008 | mentally preparing
As much as I’d like to deny it, I still have one year left of school and that year begins in just over a month. Ick.
On one hand, I’m really not looking forward to leaving San Francisco again and heading back to Ithaca where it’s cold, dreary, and miserable. Don’t get me wrong, I like Cornell. I even miss it a little. But the sheer thought of having to battle it out with the weather, (some) of the people, and then academics? It’s just not appealing to me this time around. I want to go back and see my friends and get back to work on the Sun, but everything else? No thanks.
Continue Reading »07.10.2008 | Working Hard
Some offices require expensive video game systems or spa treatments to keep their employees sane. FlickrHQ is a bit different. Early this week we got a a package full of Flickr-colored inner tubes left over from an event in Spain. THANK YOU, SPAIN! Chaos ensued from the moment we opened the packages!
It started out very simple: “ohhh look inner tubes! Let’s try to use them as a Skip It or try to roll them down the hall”, but then creativity kicked in and soon all 8 tubes were inflated and used as everything from chairs to battle weapons to running obstacles, costumes and crash mats. Thus, the Flickrlympics began.
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