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Site Update

To Whom It May Concern,

Simplify, simplify, simplify.

My head space is cluttered and inefficient.  My outlook is positive.

I am retiring this site. The site is not dead, it just needs a vacation and some time to reconsider and reinvent itself. For the time being, she bids farewell to the active internet community.

I am 19.  I am constantly figuring out what works and what doesn't.  I am not as consistent as I aspire to be - and this has a lot to do with my constant adventuring, moving, exploring, expanding.

I would like to redirect you to two new sites that I am developing for reasons of passion and professionalism.

The first will be a temp site blog project (which is what most of my blogs are evolving into): The Biggest, Baddest Bucket List

The second will be a more permanent blog site:  Library Lover, dedicated to my love of libraries, my professional and personal experience, and my dreams/goals in the realm of library science.

Life is tricky to navigate and creatively challenging to channel when there are so many mediums for expression.  I love photography and the engaging art of videos.  YouTube is genius.  But I love writing, libraries, and fitness more.  I love to spend my time writing personal letters and doing community service.  I love to feel connected and to give my energy to others.

I am growing up and learning to balance my life.  I am learning professionalism.  I am making mistakes and doing my best to recognize them, learn from them.

I am trying to figure out how to fund my instutionalized education, and learning great amounts from the world in the meantime.

AmeriCorps NCCC
and the California Conservation Corps' Backcountry Trails Program have changed my life.

I have lived in CT, NC, CA, NM, CO.  I have also traveled in NY, RI, & NC.  I have plans to travel abroad and hike the AT.  I aspire to earn scholarship money and return to school, applying in the fall of 2013.

I am learning to roll with the punches.  To take care of and give of myself at the same time.

I am 19.  When I am 39, I hope to: 1) Be alive.  2) Be able to look back at my 19 year old self, write her a letter, and say that I am proud of all that she did.  She was trying and that mattered.

My immediate goals?
Be 19.
Relax, breath.
Complete my resume.
Set up my 2 new blog sites.  Actually use them.  Include Youtube videos (every Wednesday).  Make sites worth returning to.  (Ones that I return to?  Jenna Marbles.  CommunityChannel.  That's about it.)
Go to the AT&T store; figure out cell phone hoopla.
Go to the gym. Workout and read.  Swim.
THE BIGGEST BADDEST BUCKET LIST, make final 10.  Figure out how to take time off work.  Win. (+ prepare to live the dream). (+$50,000 to help pay for college).
Library.  Print Congressional Medal booklet.  Inquire about reduced college application fees, inquire about congressional medal application separate from AmeriCorps, inquire about CNP certificate post-2013 AmeriGraduation.
More exercise.
Letter writing.
Library volunteering.
Crew PT.
AmeriCorps Jobs
-Capper
-Service Learning
-Peer Helper
-Asst. Food POC?
-Asst. Portfolio Editor
-Led 5 PT sessions
Develop Freelancing
Learn to be the best kind of significant other.

It's all kind of a fuzzy mess.  Progress is being made.  We've been given the day off work.  I've been given a great gift of TIME today.  I need to use it.  I feel a compelling need to simplify EVERYTHING.  I am unsure where to begin.

This post is an attempt at professional confession:  I haven't figured out a way to make blogging feel natural and organic to me.  I need a project that I am passionate about, that is worth the spending of your time to read and my time to write/share.  That is the goal.

This is small sample of who I am, where I'm at, and what aspirations I harbor.

Retired But Still Inspired,
Samantha

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