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Name: Jocelyn
Birthday: 12/5/1984
Gender: Female
Interests: JESUS, guitar, piano, learning miscellaneous facts about miscellaneous subjects, and perfecting my grandmother's chocolate-chip cookie receipe. i learned self-worth from a compassionate circus dwarf. cool is a matter of definition. i question how useful something is if it can't be eaten.
Expertise: waking up on my own exactly nine minutes after i hit the snooze button so that i can hit it again before the alarm actually goes off...again
Occupation: Student
Industry: Research
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Member Since:
8/29/2004
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"This will be our reply to violence: to make music more
intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before." -Leonard
Bernstein
I feel like I'm becoming such a pacifist.
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It's the longest night of the year. and right around the corner of the weekend, we have the biggest celebration of light entering the world. The irony always gets me, but I feel it especially sharply this year. This far north the official time of the sun setting is 4:20, but with the clouds, it's more like 4:00. I find myself staring with gaping mouth if the clouds break and I get a vision of snow-covered mountains and vibrant blue. I guess it just makes me appreciate it more.
It's not much, but it's what I've got. Happy Christmas!
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| I totally forgot to announce that I have a blog with Daniel. It's www.jocelynanddaniel.blogspot.com. Check it out for updates on our life on the left coast and, most importantly, pictures!
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here are some photos of the apartment before all our stuff came. sorry, they kinda suck. hopefully, i can convert the good ones to something small enough to upload in xanga soon. but for now it gives an idea.
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| it's been too long. so as i wait for the second half of a episode of house to download, here are some thoughts. marriage is weirdly good. easier and harder than i expected. i feel like i jumped the trains and left all my friends on the other side. of all my close friends, i'm the first to delve into the great mystery. and it still is mysterious, just in different ways.
as for seattle, i still feel like i'm just visiting the big city. still a little awed by the skyscrapers and the olympic mountians peeking out on clear days. and really most of the days have been sunny. locals say we'll plunge into the clouds by the end of the month though and not emerge til november-ish.
the last few days, i've been a homebody, unpacking our stuff while D is in classes. it's oddly fun for me to try to find places for things that don't really have places in this teeny apartment. i haven't started feeling claustophobic yet, but we'll see what happens when it's all upacked. the first day after our stuff came, i definitely started setting side things to give away to the salvation army. when you've lived for a month with one fork, you realize there are things that you can continue living without.
i went to orientation at Mars Hill (D's school) and even to one of his classes. i love the place! it's perfect for him and i other ways for me too. i am so welcomed and treated as though i am a student myself. someone gently and firmly disagreed with me when i introduced myself as "just a spouse." they are having some of the same key conversations about God and service and relationships and inner growth that I and D have been having with each other and our dear friends from Lee. it is a wonderful environment. a week in and i'm in love with the school (though as anyone here will point out, it definitely has its flaws and hardships). i hope i can go to more classes i the future, but most of them are during my work hours.
speaking of work, i should update that too. i'm working for an organization called Literacy*Americorps and my placement is at a community learning center called Literacy Source. they offer Adult education, help with the GED, englsih classes, job interview and skills help, etc. it's just a really neat little non-profit tucked in a really cool part of Seattle called Fremont. actually, it's connected to the back of a fancy lingerie shop. that was an interesting surprise when i went to visit for the first time. i feel like it's a great opportunity to do somethign worth doing. you don't get paid a lot, but it's enough, and i anticipate that it'll prove to be worth it. i'll be teaching some workplace english classes, but mostly all be doing administration stuff. talking to people when they first come in and helping them get connected with the specific program they need, matching up students adn tutors, doing volunteer recruitment and training, developing curriculum, and providing resources for anybody who needs anything bascially. oh, i'm getting excited just thinking about it. it's a little scary b/c i've never done this before and i feel unprepared, but at the same time i feel like it'll be okay.
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