February

Inspired title for this entry, no? I am not feeling all that inspired recently. I've started to hit the wall...or perhaps doldrums better describes the state of affairs for me right now. Yep, doldrums it is.

Since my plan to be out of the country by the end of February was not coming to fruition, I took a temp job in order to cover expenses and hold me over until I do leave. While it is not the most exciting job and I am bored to tears most of the time (I finish all the projects they give me very quickly, so I've started to purposefully draw out the completion of projects now so that I have something to do with my time - very difficult for me to do, actually), it will be good to add to my resume since it is with a grantmaking organization and I am working with the grants management department. Although I think the process of applying for grants is pretty straight forward and the dos and don'ts are common sense, having actual experience on the grantmaking side is often a desired bonus qualification for many NGOs, so this will give me a bit of that. Another bonus of this temp job is that I am able to learn about more small NGOs around the world - ones that I wouldn't necessarily have found online - so it gives me more places to look for volunteer or paid positions. Otherwise, I'm still on the lookout for positions abroad (of course) and am really hoping I land an interview soon.

I've been playing football on the weekends with a group of friends in Brooklyn to keep sane - it is so much fun! It is a really good group of people and we always have a blast. For some reason, we almost always seem to end up with an odd number of players, so we wind up recruiting random people from the park - we've added a couple great regular players that way, which is also cool. Fun times. :)

Yeah, that's all I've got right now...Happy Leap Day/Year!