Yup my neck muscles have totally seized. They were much worse yesterday than today. I think I just worked out too hard and was too tired at the same time so I pushed too much. Anyways I have some down time.
The last thing I wrote about was the Interfaith Conference that I help plan and pull together. It went really well. We many wonderful speakers. Some of my favorites were Rev Jeffery Williams, Sister Eleanore Dooley, and our speaker from the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization. We have high hopes that work will come out of this conference. This conference was actually trying to change and plan rather than only educate. We had over 200 people attend. Now we are trying to get more grassroots support from small congregations. Below is a photo of the Roger Williams Casino where we held the conference.
The week after Josh and I drove to NC for my friend and college roommate Laura's wedding. It was beautiful and lots of fun. The ceremony was at the Community Church of Chapel Hill (Unitarian Universalist) and the reception was at the Weathervane. It was supposed to be outside, but it was really muggy and the bugs were out in full force. It was nice to see some old friends during the visit. I was able to talk to my professor about graduate school while in Chapel Hill. Josh and I spent some time visiting our folks on the short visit to NC. Here's the link to the wedding photo slide show: http://www.lindawallacephotography.com/slideshows/Laura.Jordan/
We were pretty exhausted after the trip so we spend Memorial Day just relaxing in Providence. It was a really nice down weekend. We've started to frequent our local park, the Roger Williams Park. Its amazing how far you feel from the city on some of the more remote trails.
Josh and I have a lovely visit with Aunt Didi and Uncle Kim over in Conn. Going to the beach, play in the dirt, making shrimp and grits. I know we're going to miss our wonderful, relaxing, visits with them. We're starting to plan for our trip back south in August.
Many of the organizations I work with are encouraging the RI legislature to extent the RI Works (Welfare) program. 3,000 families will be kicked off at the end of June. We want them extended primarily because of the bad ecomony. Also the legislation from last year attempted to get people involved in job experience, over education, but there hasn't been anywhere near enough support for the individuals in the program.
Overall things are going well. Much better now that the weather is definitely nice, exculding the cold rain today. I'm working on my job hunt, trying to get a position in a lab. So if anyone knows of any psychology/psychiatry orient labs working with adolescents who have open positions let me know. I've realized this year I would have really liked to have my bass for something else to do other than cook, do crafts, go to the gym, and attempt to hang out with people.
On the note of hanging out with people I recently went to a Veg Out. This is a newish concept by my 2nd floor house mates. They are very nice. Anyways people get home from work and are tired. They commonly get together with people and watch a movie or tv. Not very good for bonding. Her idea is that people get together and entertain each other. So we had people telling stories from their past, someone talking about the apocraphal gospel, rennaissance singing, folks stories (I told a Jack tale from Western NC), and dancing. It was a really fantastic time. We kept it pretty dark except for some candles. It kind of reminded me of when Uncle David told stories about the Backporch kids (by the way when is he writing that book?).
For everyone who hasn't seen Dr. Horrible's Sing along Blog with Neil Patrick Harris, seriously check it out.
Now its time for me to go to sleep so I can wake up tomorrow and go back to work.
Until later, much love to all.
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