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by Eli

i’ve gotten to this point a few times in the history of this weblog. it happens when i’m really busy or distracted. i keep thinking of cool things to write about, and i keep thinking that i’m going to get on it and power through it all, but then i don’t. and then i got so behind that everytime i think about writing i think to myself, “no, i’ll just wait until i can really dedicate some time to it, then i’ll be able to go over everything that i’ve missed.” but then i just keep waiting and stalling and waiting and before i know it almost 2 weeks has gone by without a new post. so, i’m sorry. i’ll try my best to not let this happen anymore, although i’m sure it will and you’ll have to be just as forgiving the next time around. so, to begin:

i’ve been living at the HoneyBucket for just about 2 months now and i’m really enjoying it. there have been a few rough spots along the way, but nothing we can’t work out and work through. i love how clean the house is, i love our garden, i love all the delicious vegan food that we eat (some from our garden), i love our office upstairs, i love living with meredith, i love living with all the other roommates (emily, brooke, bookis, shane, civ), i love the cats (even though they aren’t with us anymore), i love how close we are to everything, i love playing kickball in the park on sundays, and i love living in seattle.

the past couple months (almost 3 exactly) i’ve been pretty hard at work on a new web project of mine: ListYourList. it came to me a few months ago when the boys were thinking about making lists of their 50 favorite movies. i wanted a way we could make those lists and share them and comment on them, but i couldn’t find anything general enough online. sure there were To-Do lists and top 10 lists and grocery lists, but nothing for just a plain old list with no specifics and no real goal or aim. it just so happened that shane had introduced me to Ruby on Rails a few months before that and i thought this would be a nice personal project for me to work on. boy was it ever! the first round of features and options are online now so get over there SIGN UP. just so you know, Internet Explorer isn’t working with the site right now, so use something else for now.

in other news: i have decided against my previous plans to go to Antarctica. after my interview with the woman in charge of the janitorial positions it just started to seem really heavy. i would be working 9 hours a day, 6 days a week, for about 20 weeks straight. that is crazy! now, if i would have secured one of the computer related positions i could see myself doing it, but i don’t think i could if i had to be down on my knees scrubbing and sweeping and mopping. it saddens me. i was really excited about this posibility, but mainly because of the options of traveling after my time on the ice. see, when your shift is over down there, you are able to fly back home whenever you want which gives you quite a bit of options. that would be awesome, especially because of the time you’d get to spend in new zealand. but i think i’d rather work 40 hours a week here with my friends and family, save my money, and then go to new zealand on my own terms. just a thought.

i’m still working at the dive shop a few days a week, and i’m enjoying it more than ever now: when they need me they call me, when they don’t they don’t. i also really like it because i’m paid on a completion basis so they can’t really tell me what to do while i’m there. i work at my own pace and i get $12.50 per item i list, which usually ends up being somewhere between $15 and $20 an hour. aside from that job i’m still looking for something else a few days a week. nothing awesome has surfaced yet, but i might put in an application at the fruit stand down the street. i think that’d be pretty cool.

i can’t think of much else right now, so leave me comments and tell what to write about. got any questions that’d take a few paragraphs to answer?