May 20th, 2009 (12:49 pm)
My life isn't all fandom. Oh, no, no, no it is not. Sometimes I think that my posts here are a gross misrepresentation of what my life consists of.
Other things I do on the internet (Wow, everything else I do is on NPR. Okay, fandom and NPR...maybe I really am that pathetic.):
This I Believe-I cried when NPR dropped their independently produced essay project after four years. This I Believe was an amazing project and I looked forward to it every time I heard it. But fear not people! It still exists at
http://www.thisibelieve.org and I urge you all to visit and listen to some of the recorded essays and maybe write your own. I would say that about thirty or forty percent of them make me cry. Edit: Here is a good one [
link], because this child's list of beliefs are amazing. [
link] by Amy Tan tends to be more similar to the rest of the essays.
Planet Money-This blog simplifies the money crisis enough that most people can understand it. I enjoy the podcast a lot, and the blog itself is usually a wealth of information.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/
NPR in general: I love Morning Edition, All Things Considered, This American Life, Car Talk, and Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. Go to
http://www.npr.org and check out the plethora of great programs that you can listen to online.
Other things I do in real life:The job-I take care of my friend with cerebral palsy. It is an awesome job, and it actually pays okay.
Art and Graphic Design-I do all kinds of art and graphic design other than fanart. I'm just not satisfied enough with my designs to post them online yet.
Conventions-I go to conventions and sell art.
Coaching High School Speech-My team is a smaller Class B team, but they take on the biggest class A teams in the state. It isn't any wonder that we had 16 out of 17 events that made finals in the district meet and 6 events that made it to state. They were 10th in the state overall. We also produced one national competitor in the NSAA state competition, and one in the NFL state competition (only 2 in each event go per state in this one). It totally made up for me wanting to strangle my team all season long. (And before you think, "Well it is just Nebraska. You're small potatoes." I would just like to say that speech is HUGE here. I competed in it in college and Nebraska consistently has three teams in the nationals top ten list, a list a Nebraska team often tops. It was cut throat).
Still looking for a church-I wish I could find a church that doesn't make me want to quit religion altogether. For the most part churches make me want to puke. The judgmental hypocrites, especially the ones that give lots of money to spend on the CHURCH, not needy projects, really turn me off of the experience. Organized religion (aka a church) often irks me, faith and belief do not.
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