I’ve put together a couple of resumes. I did one for my Information Technology side and one for my Spiritual Development side. It’s really interesting, because to read them you would think I’m two entirely different people. I’ve put them online at my “professional” website, chrisstanley.info. Check ‘em out. Don’t I sound impressive? Aren’t you filled with a nearly irresistable urge to pay me lots of money to do interesting things? I thought so.
Context: At Burlington College, seniors are required to complete what they call a degree project. This is essentially a senior thesis. It has to be an original work (i.e. not a research paper) of 40-60 pages in length. It takes an entire academic year to complete, being broken up into Degree Project I in the fall and Degree Project II in the spring.
I just finished the first draft of my degree project! Woohoo! It weighs in at exactly 58 pages in length. I just printed out four copies and I now have a very satisfying heap of paper beside me. It will now be reviewed by a panel of three faculty, I will make revisions, and then the final version will be turned in by May 1.
This is far and away the largest thing I have ever written. And I think it’s pretty good, to boot. I’m quite proud of myself.
Graduation in thirty-two days!
Trese and I got back today from visiting with some of her family. Her father, stepmother, and half-brother drove up from DC to stay a few days with her sister and brother-in-law in New Hampshire. We drove down there for a day and a half of it. We talked and played games and hiked and such things. It was quite nice.
So, with respect to telling God my plans, in thirty-two days I will graduate. Up until about five months ago, I had spent the last two years preparing to enter a Unitarian Universalist seminary. But I recently realized that UU wants to be everything to everyone and cannot abide saying anything assertive for fear of offending someone. To be a responsible UU minister I would have to constantly monitor and water down everything I had to say, and that I will not do. Additionally, I’ve been learning over the last few weeks that most of what I wanted to say as a minister I really wanted to say to myself. At least I figured that out before I went to seminary.
So, the looming question: now what? I’ll soon have finished off the last of my readings, papers, and presentations and walk across the stage (On a complete tangent, I nominated myself for class speaker [our non-graded parallel to valedictorian]. Vote for me!). I don’t have the slightest notion what comes after that.
My default plan at the moment is to get some computer work. I could do that for a year or two, make some decent money, and pay off some student loan debt (particularly my private loans, I could go on deferment for the Peace Corps or such things after that). But computer work is precisely what I left seven years ago in search of better things. So the notion isn’t exactly exciting.
Aside from that, I’m just trying to stay open to opportunities. Life has always provided me with a path and I’ll try to have faith that it will continue to do so.
P.S. If you see a job that just screams “Chris should do this!”, do let me know.
I’ve found a new level of geeky goodness. The latest version of uTorrent supports RSS feeds. That means that I can point it to a source of entirely legal, public domain television programs and it will automatically download the ones I want as soon as they’re released. So I just set this thing up and let it run and… presto, the things I want to watch just show up on my computer automagically!
Ah, but there’s more. My old DVD player went flaky, and when replacing it I decided to go a little higher scale. I bought a Buffalo Technology LinkTheater. This amazing little toy plays most every video codec and streams over WiFi. So, after my shows have mystically appeared on my computer, I just crank up my LinkTheater and watch them right on my TV.
I’m in heaven. 