Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanks Laura and Alison for helping my de-wack my blog :)

So, I had a job interview yesterday, and I think it went pretty well, but now I feel really anxious. I'm not even sure if it's the right job for me, but not knowing if I'll get it or not is driving me nuts. I couldn't sleep last night and now I feel like a zombie.

On a lighter note, I don't have to work tomorrow, so I get a 5-day weekend! I'm going to spend Thanksgiving with the Nishis at their cabin in the mountains. It's so beautiful up there - I love it. I think I should read a whole book while I'm there, but I'm not sure what to read. I haven't read the 5th Harry Potter book yet, but I feel bad when the majority of my leisure reading is spent on Harry Potter books - even though they're great. I finished Memoirs of a Geisha about a month ago. It's my sister's favorite book, and I thought it was really good. My Gramma Weidner before she died kept telling me to read The Secret Life of Bees. She really loved that book, so maybe I'll go get that one and I'll also bring along the Arundhati Roy book on war that I've been meaning to read. Then I'll have a selection.

Sweet! My blog is a decision-making tool for me! It would be really nice if I could find out about that job before Thanksgiving, but hopefully my anxiousness was just temporary and I'll chill out today.

Anyway, take it easy and Happy Thanksgiving!

Why is my blog being wack?

I don't understand why all my postings are down here now, and I don't have time to figure it out! Sonofablog!

Job Interview!

So, I have a job interview on Monday for the Manager of MBA Recruitment! I'm really excited. The more I think about it, I think that this job might be a pretty good fit. The nice thing is that I'm not desperate for the job, so it'll be an interview where I'm trying to find if the job is a good fit for me while they figure out if I'm a good fit for it. but I would love to work full-time at DU. And as MBA programs have the lowest rates of minority and women enrollment, my research for GMAC and the IIC degree would be used in planning outreach and recruitment for these groups.

In other news, last night Brian and I made dinner for Alison and Kate. Brian wanted to make meatballs, so I told him he could make those, and I'd make the spaghetti with veggie sauce. When we went to the store later, Brian said he was getting the Boca fake-meat crumbles to make meatballs. I thought that was sweet; I hadn't expected him to do that. It made up for my finding McDonald's wrappers in his car!

The Minority Report

Howder-do!

I know hilarious things have been happening in my life, but I can't think of any of them right now - sonofa! this weekend we're going to go watch Michigan Tech play Colorado College in Hockey. I wonder if CC is any good? I think they are. I wonder if Tech beat them last year? I bet they did. I wonder why I don't go look at stats and figure out the answer to these lingering questions. Cause I don't care that much.

Anyway, latest news with me is I'm now job hunting. I applied for the position of MBA Recruitment Manager for the Business school here at DU. I think it'd be fun, although not exactly what I had in mind. I figured I'd just start applying to anything I look qualified for/looks interesting.

My Minority report papers are out on the web. go to link to see them. I'm a coauthor of the "Blacks/African Americans and Entrepreneurship" paper and acknowledged in the "What Leads to Minority Enrollment..."

I was excited to see them. My little publications list is getting longer, although the topic areas are all over including an article I wrote for the Washington State Technology Transfer on ArcIMS when I was at Marshall. At least the docs are getting more interesting - I think...

Other news, I've started listening to only Christmas music to get myself in the holiday spirit and so I can get through all the Christmas cds I own before Christmas is over. I wake up to John Denver and the Muppets Christmas cd every morning and listen to my Christmas mix on the way to and from work. My only exception to my constant carols is when I'm in Brian's car, since he has yet to subscribe to my Christmas music extravaganza. Don't worry, I'll bring him over to the red & green side!

I'm thinking I'll send out a Christmas letter and cards this year. I've had my Christmas cards for about 3 years now - I think it's time they left my possession. I also bought some red lipstick, because a lady on the radio said it was the number one holiday accessory every woman should have. Of course, I think it was a Revlon commercial. Brian doesn't like my new blood-red lipstick and I can't imagine why - it's nice! I got two compliments on it!

Anyway, happy holidayish times! - Naomi

Pre-Halloween Trick or Treating and Delicious Stew!

This last Sunday, I went over to my Somali Bantu family's house to carve pumpkins for Halloween. I brought them two bags of candy along with two pumpkins. They promptly gave a Kit Kat to the 6-month year old, Malut (my Godson). After he finished that, they gave him a carmel apple sucker.

After the pumpkin-carving extravaganza, the kids decided they were going Trick or Treating. I tried to tell them that Halloween was the next day, but they wouldn't hear it. We made make-shift costumes out of construction paper and using my Crayola markers. Habiba was a cat and I was a rabbit. Every house we went to, the people looked at us like we were crazy, while I just laughed nervously. I think we hit 5 doors, before the kids gave up. It was pretty hilarious.

Wednesday I made some delicious lentil stew! I was so proud of myself. I doubled the batch and everyone that had some unanimously agreed...delicious!

And that's my latest!