Archive for the 'Decisions, Decisions' Category

Looking back on some of the major turning points of my life, I realize most of them have come out of rash decisions. Momentary whims that turned into life paths and completely new directions. Rash decision one: Give up theater, after a life time of dance classes, voice lessons, summer theater camps, and a performing [...]

Maybe it’s the two day food coma I’m in. Maybe it’s the Sandra Bullock/Ryan Reynolds three-movie marathon I just had with my sister. (That’s The Blind Side, Definitely Maybe, and The Proposal, in case you were wondering) or maybe it’s the fact that I’m lonely in my relatively large apartment for the weekend, but I’ve [...]

As long as it hasn’t sold yet, I’ll be calling the car dealership tomorrow to tell them I want the Prius. I still maintain I’m terrible at making decisions. Other than that, my main excitement of the day came  vicariously through my sister who saw Jason Segal at Rite Aid in LA. (Me=supremely jealous.) When [...]

Remember how I mentioned my car shopping dilemma? New vs. Hybrid? Well, today that question got a whole lot harder.  When searching for cars in the past few weeks, I’d really only found one that I was seriously considering: A new Chevy Colbalt. It’s a good price, so I can afford to get a new one with [...]

This  morning I got up early to go to visit the KIPP Academy in Lynn with some other recently accepted TFA corps members and a Boston area recruiter.  The school looked unassuming. It’s basically a converted church with some modular (trailer like) classrooms surrounding the building. You walk in and there are some murals on the wall, but there [...]

Yesterday, I had some time to kill before going to work, where I would sit around doing nothing, so I figured I might as well stop at the bookstore and pick something up to read. I’d been dying to read American Wife by Curits Sittenfeld, because I LOVED Prep, but when I got to the [...]

I thought while I’m in the midst of figuring out my next life move – I have a phone call with someone from the TFA LA office tonight and a matriculation dinner tomorrow night that I’m hoping with solidify a decision for me – I thought it would be fun to dig through my old, real, paper [...]

So, today I got a a rather interesting email. It went a little something like this: “Dear Amanda, I am pleased to extend you an offer to join the Teach For America 2009 corps! This offer to join Teach For America reflects both your outstanding accomplishments and your potential to move students to achieve. In [...]

Today I was talking to my mom, and I jokingly suggested we take the Joe Biden train from Wilmington to DC on January 20th to go to Obama’s inauguration. I’ll be home by then, I thought. (Well, at my parent’s house…) What else will I have to do? Then I started thinking about that fact… [...]

What can I say here that hasn’t already been said, debated, argued about, screamed about, cried about,and or  ranted about on the internet 1,000 times before? I guess what I can say is THANK GOD THIS IS OVER! Has this election been going on my entire life? Because it’s truly starting to feel that way. [...]