Update and Re-entry

Hello world! (I know only enough computer science to understand that some people would find that funny/weird.) I have been absent for 7.5 months, but I'm back. I actually have an entire post outlined but I left it at work (as I *just* realized). I think I'm going to try to post once or twice a week, though of course as I ease back in I'll probably post a lot. Hehe.

So, how are you? How have you been? I've been pretty good. Busy as usual, but busy getting back into a routine. I 'quit' my old job in June (quit implies drama, and it was hardly dramatic except for a few tears about people I now miss), spent two months in New York City studying Judaism and getting yelled at for calling the subway the metro, discovered gratuitous hyperlinking, moved back to DC and into a lovely little apartment with an even lovelier roommate, and started my new job working at a non-profit and doing community building (I swear that I'm banning any person who comments on this post that community building must be like being a small-town mayor. I'm not even a community organizer, though I'd probably do something more extreme than banning if I were). And I'm done with my long-distance relationship, for the happy reason that we're now both in DC. So, there's a quick update.

I've also started keeping up with friends' blogs on google reader, and getting used to year 2 post college -- way more settled, way less stressful. I'm thinking about going to grad school (applying in fall 2009), trying to find something meaningful to volunteer for, and getting less skittish about people knowing I have a blog (though that could be because I haven't posted in so long, so those posts aren't really me, right?). I recently discovered the parenthesis (just kidding, though I apparently use them like seventh grade girls use exclamation marks). I now type exclusively in Dvorak (I'm sure that will merit a post at some point). And I decided that I spell 'canceled' with one L.