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| Me taking a Pizza break from taking photos at the Climbing Comp on 2/26/2011 |
Another day, another dollar I suppose. The price of gasoline will be going up up up so I hear. The disaster, and continuing disasters in Japan are affecting the world markets... and not just the Store! And unrest in the middle east doesn't spell hope for cheap travels for a long time. Hopefully Mt. Ranier and St. Helens don't decide to go go kaBoom! anytime soon as well, that good ol' ring of fire can be just a doozy! I want to leave Boone, sooner rather than much later (preferably in July), but the way of the economy, bills, college loans, and the job market are making moving on a path of dreams like swimming in syrup, I think soon it will turn to molasses. But Boone is great for climbing, great for the outdoors, and perhaps being here for a while longer isn't a terribly bad idea. Who knows, I suppose that exit will come upon the highway as steadily as anything else stuck on I-Time.
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| Have not actually used this one yet, will just keep it in the bank for now. |
Today I went back to the climbing gym on campus for the first time since it shut down for Spring Break this past week, must be nice, eh? It was good to see friends and get back on the... "rocks." A sopped and dreary week kept me company over what so many of my friends were able to call Mardi Gras, Florida, Spain, or intensely awesome rock climbing. We even got some snow as you saw in my last update. Hopefully the winter has hiccuped its last bout of sputtering snow and will now relinquish its grip to spring. Hopefully.
In the meantime I have been organizing my photos, working on design, and continuing (as always) my photography. I have been doing a lot of poster and t-shirt work, to the right is some of what I have done for the Climbing Team. It has definitely been a good experience and I think I would really like a job doing Photos and Graphic Design, I think I would be good at it. Perhaps I will start a Coffee, Beer, Bread, Tea, Photography, Graphic Design, Local Art Gallery, Delicious Apéritif, and sometimes live music... shop.venue.restaurant.cafe.studio....place. It's going to be great!. Such a place would be a wonderful realm to study, read, look at cool local art, talk, get together, have good homemade foodstuffs, and work too! Oh to make that happen, perhaps I'll do some research.
Things are going well with Melise and I. We are just doing the regular Boone thing; friends, tea, coffee, climbing, lazing, working (school/job respectively), hiking, photographing, and playing. We plan to begin learning Chinese soon, should be a good fun time. I hope to someday make it back there, aside from the experience and possible business opportunities (?), there is a massively large amount of great climbing.
She's a great person. I am happy to know her. I hope you all can meet her at some point, I think the world'd be hard pressed to find a flaw.
As I said, another day another dollar. Work is work, though its not terrible. I am getting paid to learn and navigate the topsy turvy world of Officeland and its quite a place. Drama, Excitement (usually grossly over exaggerated), politics, and projects.
I am learning how to work Google's PayPerClick (PPC) advertising called AdWords. Its interesting, but I feel a little overwhelmed sometimes with my workload. I am doing AdWords advertising for 3 companies now, working on the website ( www.steelbuildinggarages.com ), learning organizational aspects, applications, and functionality quirks of Microsoft Excel (great program!), and the ever wonderful office coordination. Its a load, that's for sure, but never a dull moment.
We have our old man Jim who forgets much, laughs much, and is just a great, large, enormous presence in the office, it would be a duller time without him. We have the recovering drug addicts, the continuing prescription pull abusers, the Alcophiliacs, the hard workers, the lazy smart kids, the know it alls, the abrasive high pressure sales people, the completely oblivious to reality ones, and much much more. I plan on writing a play about the place, I expect many awards.
All in all its not a bad first job out of college. I love where I am, Like what I do, and have a great group of friends. Spring sends its roots through the thawing tundra and the sun coaxes shoots skyward towards yon summer. Life is good.
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-CP
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| Melise climbing a problem called "Center 45" on the '45 Boulder' out at Blowing Rock Boulders off of Hwy 221 just outside of Blowing Rock, about 15 minutes from Boone. It was a chilly but good night |
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