Well, I have returned from my sabbatical (not really, I was just really busy watching/listening to the French Open the last few weeks). Rafael Nadal won his seventh Roland Garros title to set a new record! Vamos Rafa! Anyways, this section of my blog actually is not about tennis, so I will get on with the real happenings of my life here in hot and humid Topeka, Kansas.
Since my last blog post, I have acquired a bit (very, very little) more responsibility at MOTHER EARTH NEWS. I am responsible for the "Homestead Skills From Days Gone By" blog which consists of mostly editing and finding cool pictures, and I wrote my first blog about my gardening experience in the office garden harvesting garlic which got quite a few laughs from my fellow staff members. I've optimized numerous articles from 1978 including an article about Wisconsin (it made me miss the fresh country air and the cows so much that I had to go home and visit over Memorial Day weekend). The other interns also told me that I seem to have a knack for this editing/optimizing thing (I am on a newspaper staff after all). Since harvesting garlic, Heidi (Hunt) and the rest of the garden group, myself included, dug up beets, turnips, and cabbages. I still need to make something out of my food, but I'm definitely not the Rachael Ray type; we will see how that goes later this week. Two new people were hired as part of the MOTHER EARTH NEWS staff, and I look forward to getting to know them and all of the other staff members better over this summer. Speaking of getting to know people, I got to know my neighbors pretty well.
My neighbors to the right of my summer home tried to convert me to become a Jehovahs Witness I'm pretty sure. They invited me over to just chat and then started talking about God and Jesus and so forth, and they even gave me this little pamphlet (published by Watchtower) to look over. I really wanted to tell them that I was perfectly happy with my religion: tennis; however, I feel like they would not have responded well to that comment. They then proceeded to tell me about the illustrious history of the neighborhood that I live in (it ain't pretty). Let's just say that many bad things happened here a long time ago. Since then, it has been cleaned up pretty well. However, I have been invited to go to the Central Congregational Church on Sunday, and I do intend to go. Heidi tells me that there's this guy and his followers outside protesting how liberal the church is, and I would like to see that for myself. Some people can be so narrow-minded.
Other tidbits from Kansas: I have been applying for a part-time job to not be so gosh darn bored all the time (so far not a whole lot of luck). I have watched the entire four seasons of Wildfire (available for free from Hulu). I've bought more clothes (yes, I have an online shopping addiction), and I tried to apologize to my ex-best friend (also, did not go well). Finally, I burnt myself with a curling iron yesterday. That was not the first time I've done that. All in all it's been kind of a bad couple of weeks except for Rafa winning which outweighs everything else! Hopefully, this week will be better.
Since my last blog post, I have acquired a bit (very, very little) more responsibility at MOTHER EARTH NEWS. I am responsible for the "Homestead Skills From Days Gone By" blog which consists of mostly editing and finding cool pictures, and I wrote my first blog about my gardening experience in the office garden harvesting garlic which got quite a few laughs from my fellow staff members. I've optimized numerous articles from 1978 including an article about Wisconsin (it made me miss the fresh country air and the cows so much that I had to go home and visit over Memorial Day weekend). The other interns also told me that I seem to have a knack for this editing/optimizing thing (I am on a newspaper staff after all). Since harvesting garlic, Heidi (Hunt) and the rest of the garden group, myself included, dug up beets, turnips, and cabbages. I still need to make something out of my food, but I'm definitely not the Rachael Ray type; we will see how that goes later this week. Two new people were hired as part of the MOTHER EARTH NEWS staff, and I look forward to getting to know them and all of the other staff members better over this summer. Speaking of getting to know people, I got to know my neighbors pretty well.
My neighbors to the right of my summer home tried to convert me to become a Jehovahs Witness I'm pretty sure. They invited me over to just chat and then started talking about God and Jesus and so forth, and they even gave me this little pamphlet (published by Watchtower) to look over. I really wanted to tell them that I was perfectly happy with my religion: tennis; however, I feel like they would not have responded well to that comment. They then proceeded to tell me about the illustrious history of the neighborhood that I live in (it ain't pretty). Let's just say that many bad things happened here a long time ago. Since then, it has been cleaned up pretty well. However, I have been invited to go to the Central Congregational Church on Sunday, and I do intend to go. Heidi tells me that there's this guy and his followers outside protesting how liberal the church is, and I would like to see that for myself. Some people can be so narrow-minded.
Other tidbits from Kansas: I have been applying for a part-time job to not be so gosh darn bored all the time (so far not a whole lot of luck). I have watched the entire four seasons of Wildfire (available for free from Hulu). I've bought more clothes (yes, I have an online shopping addiction), and I tried to apologize to my ex-best friend (also, did not go well). Finally, I burnt myself with a curling iron yesterday. That was not the first time I've done that. All in all it's been kind of a bad couple of weeks except for Rafa winning which outweighs everything else! Hopefully, this week will be better.
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