| | So, confession time: I haven't written in here for a while, because Wei lost his job in December. This brought up many feelings in me, mostly of panic and doom. The only stuff I felt like writing about here was negative, so I just decided not to write. He still doesn't have a 9-5 type job, but he has been working his butt off on launching a project with a couple of other local entrepreneurs. It has been awesome to watch him transforming from a person who worked really hard at a job he didn't like very much to a person who is dedicated to the work he does and loves (almost) every minute of it, even though the financial rewards haven't come quite yet. I'm so happy for him and proud to call him mine.
In other job-related news, I got a new job! In a couple of weeks I'll be starting in the development department of a local liberal arts college. I decided a few months ago that moving into the higher education world would be a good next step for my career. The area of fund raising in which I specialize hasn't been around in the cause-world for very long, but colleges and universities have embraced it for the past 20 or 30 years. The only way I'm going to learn more is to make the jump over to higher ed and experience it from their side of the fence.
I don't feel bad about leaving here, even though a lot of people are jumping ship right now. I no longer have very much confidence in my boss and the direction of our department, and I'm hitting a freakin' brick ceiling--there's nowhere to move up. I really hope that my new opportunity will be enriching for me; at the very least, I'll be able to take some Mandarin language classes at the college come fall semester  But I'm not 22 anymore. I'm not going to be like "ZOMG new job best thing ever!!!" It could be good, bad, great, awful, or somewhere in between. I feel like I did my due diligence scoping the place out and asking questions during the interview process, but you never really know until you start. I do think I've come to the point where I can understand that it has a lot to do with my attitude and knowing what I want out of it.
I have a bunch of stuff to finish up here before I go. I don't want to leave them in the lurch. I'm finding it very, very difficult to stay "on task," however. Hence my writing in xanga during the middle of the day.
I'm talking about going to the Austin City Limits Festival with two of my besties from college in September. One lives in LA and the other lives in NYC--we don't get to see each other much! We're waiting to decide when they announce the line-up next week. I listened to the artist mashup on their website last night and was able to identify all of 3 bands out of 29: CSS, N.E.R.D., and Gorillaz. Woo, go me? If we don't go for the fest, we might decide to go to Austin any ol' weekend just to hang out and explore a new place together.
Wei's brother is getting married in Baltimore on July 5th., and my extended family is renting a beach house in Ocean Isle for a week starting the same day. So we're going to drive up to MD for the wedding, and stop in NC for a few days on our way home. It's definitely not the most direct route, but it should be fun. I'm excited for Wei to see the NC shore! And the wedding should be a blast. Maybe I can take Wei on the Bridget's Youth tour of Ellicott City while we're up there too.
I think that's all the travel I have planned in the foreseeable future. We wanted to go to Hong Kong this fall, but, uhmmm, budgetary restrictions will prevent that 
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Meet up with your friends! It's tough to keep in touch (let along, hang out in person!) wit friends when all of us have so much going on. You'll have a great time. Hahaha, Bridget's Youth tour! Wei should totally be a groupie for that one. :p