“HOWDY!” from College Station, Texas!
For those of you who have never heard of the place, it is the home of the Texas A&M Aggies, and the place where I earned my undergraduate degree.
This week, I’ve been co-hosting with Radio DJ Niblett of Candy 95! I’ll be ending the Program as I started: In a laid-back fashion [...]

Recap Time.
I felt good Friday morning. Jolly, semi-hyper. When I walked to work, I listened to my music and sang out loud. Danced a little. Thinking back, I believe my mood stemmed from the knowledge that I had truly tried my best all week. No matter what happened, no matter what anybody thought or said, [...]

Wednesday morning, I was functioning on less than four hours of sleep, but I felt serenely energetic. I thought back to last night. I had never done karaoke before, and I have a very-small-but-still-present fear of performing in front of an audience…but I ended up singing three songs. I even sang one song with Forrest! [...]

Friday 08/06/10 @ 5:10pm CDT: Leave Austin, Texas by Greyhound bus.
Saturday 08/07/10 @ 2:40pm MST: Arrive in Phoenix, Arizona by Greyhound bus.
Sunday 08/08/10 @9am MST: Leave Phoenix, Arizona by car.
Sunday 08/08/10 @1:40pm MST: Arrive in Page, Arizona by car.
1,379 miles of travel in order to make it to Job #7! The journey map has been [...]

Hello All!
This is sort of a disappointing blog post, because it doesn’t contain any good One-Week Job meat, but I wanted to check in with the world. It is the Friday of Week #7, and as you may have noticed, I haven’t blogged at all. I’m always late with these posts, but I’ve never been [...]

Recap Time.
My last night in Austin was a late one. “Last nights” are always filled with weird emotions. You have to be focused because there are always a lot of little things that need to be taken care of before departure – packing, laundering, ticket-buying, calling, etc. And you’re kind of sad because [...]

I forgot to mention that Tuesday’s night of “America’s Got Talent”-watching came with a couple of Matthew’s chocolate-banana milkshakes. It was good, Matthew.
By Wednesday morning, I had stepped into the shoes of a Communications Manager and Business Development Manager, was working as a journalist as I finalized three press releases, and had attended two meetings, [...]

I’m back in my home state for a little bit, in the city of Austin, Texas! It feels so good to be here. Here’s the weekly hour and mileage update:
~769 miles from Denver to Austin by bus.
~5806 miles traveled overall.
~83 hours spent traveling overall.
And here’s the trusty weekly map update:
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I’ve apologized for inconsistent posting before, and here we are. I’m just going to stop with the apologies…
I think I may have indicated in the past that I enjoyed working at the pizzeria the most out of all the one-week jobs. We have a “problem” now, because that is no longer the case. I could [...]

I have something to say.
I have decided to keep coffee in my life beyond this week. I vow to research and find a cafe in the area that I’m in. One that I deem “good” using the information I’ve learned during my time with Coda Coffee Company, of course. I’m doing this because…I want to, [...]

OWJ + 1 OWJ Program Participant + Reframe Marketing + 4 days of planning + 5 Amazing Volunteers = Dozens more people that know about One Week Job!
First off, I want to shout out a huge THANK YOU to everyone who helped make the first OWJ Street Team Event a SUCCESS!
For my week as an [...]

I’m disgustingly late with this post! I apologize! I meant to update last night, but I fell asleep instead…at 10pm. Scary. I AM IN DENVER, COLORADO! It is beautiful here.
Map time again:
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Tomorrow, we’ll be halfway there. Officially. Everything has been crazy fast. I can’t think of one moment where the time seemed to drag on. Nope, not when I was staring at a computer for 8 hours a day. Nope, not even when I was stuck on a bus with a blown-out tire for four hours, [...]

For the past four days (including today), I’ve eaten at least one Cliff Bar for breakfast, and a pizza slice for lunch. I usually take a box of pizza home for dinner, where I eat it happily while I do my thing(s) on my laptop.
Today, as I was walking home with two slices of cheese [...]

I have a confession to make.
I didn’t choose my job this week. That was part of the deal as a participant in this Program, but I just got lazy and decided to choose only seven jobs and make someone else choose the eighth.
Just kidding! Well, not about the not choosing. About the laziness. This week, [...]