Busy busy busy makes me happy happy happy

I am so happy today.  And it's because of how busy I am.

Photo of my best friend Rachael w/baby squirrel  I think it represents "happy" pretty well

Today, in particular, though, is beginning to look like the start of a great day and productive weekend.  This morning, at 8:30 am, after hours of collecting the accomplishments from the last 3 college years of my life the night prior, I brought my messy draft of a resume to the career center for a meeting with a specialist.  He was so cool and enthusiastic and about halfway through our meeting he rolled back in his chair, clapped his hands and said, "Woo-wee.  This is looking sooooo sweet.  I'm so excited!"  And I had to agree.  For, having someone do all the dirty work in getting together your resume is sweet (it's also sweetest if they do a damn good job).  I told him, as he was cleaning up fonts and indenting like crazy that I was so thankful to have a middleman between me and my computer.  The meeting lasted for over an hour, but, after carefully looking over his shoulder all that time, I had myself a complete and updated resume before the morning was through.

One of the reasons why I scheduled this resume meeting was because of another meeting that I just had at 11:00 am.  Today I met with a recruitment officer from teach for america.  You might remember this post.  That was the first time I met with her without a resume in hand.  Today, though, I was happily able to hand her a polished piece of paper with all of my goodies (mainly I wanted to flaunt my work from this past summer).  When I got there, I was surprised to see how much she remembered about me (she could even recall where I was from and that I was one of the good ones!).  We got to talking about my summer and I listened closely as she informed me about Special Education placements within the corps.  How exciting!  I'll be applying for the upcoming deadline next week and after this meeting I have the right kind of confidence to get me through the application process.  The recruitment officer said that I would be a "tremendous candidate" and, frankly, I couldn't be happier.

Guys, I'm applying for my first, real job!

Let's see, other things in my life?  Well, I'm now a part of two student committees for two upcoming art exhibitions that are being held at Elon this year.  The first is with Tri-State Sculptors.  The 2009 annual conference is being held here this year and my mentor and fellow artist, Mike Sanford, is coordinating it.  I've been emailing him back and forth trying to figure out when the rest of the committee and I should meet with him to get the ball rolling.  He thinks that we should meet at his house for some dinner because he is so busy and so appreciative of a student committee to help him out with the work.  The other exhibition is the National Small Works Invitational (I submitted a piece to it last year).  This is a big exhibit because everything is so small, but plentiful.  And it is imperative that I begin advertising for it because we need as many artists that are not from Elon as possible.  This means that if you have art or want to make some art and get it into a great exhibit please comment and I will give you the information.  The deadline's not for a couple of months, but it would be great to get the word out now.  Even if you're not an "artist"...I doesn't really matter.

Okay, now I'm off to the ceramics studio* to work on some sculptures.  And then later I've got to go to that Honors Fellows picnic.  Meh.

Love,

Monica

*Oh oh oh, the Pendulum wants to take pictures/video footage of me in the ceramics studio for a piece they are doing on the program!  I hope that they don't ask me to throw while on camera.  I mean, I'll give it a whirl, of course.  But, I just get so nervous on the wheel when people are watching.