May 2013
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Andrea E. Peterson » Moving On →
A new post about my life… tried to make it a bit more professional in nature so that possible employers might see it down the road.
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“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
— Mark Twain
It’s amazing to me how relevant quotes by this man show up at just the right time in my life. My current boss, a manager at Starbucks, has regularly made me feel belittled. He often brags about how little education he...
April 2013
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Shoulda coulda woulda
I’m finally writing my last major paper for my Master’s, and I’ve finally got a (very long) rough draft. I honestly don’t care that much to refine it today, but I want to be done with it NOW. I could be if I didn’t feel like sleeping, but I have a likely horrible day ahead of me tomorrow. I must sleep more tonight.
I realize now that this is what I should have...
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Professor Bobo
As some of you know, I am in Los Alamos because Joe has been working on a physics doctorate here at the national labs. Well, he did it.
Joe achieved his doctorate!
I’ve been waiting for so long. A lot of this waiting time for me has been frustrating, but it has always been worthwhile. We’re waiting to hear about jobs… but I hope whatever it means is that my life will change,...
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Joe: I need to call Greg [his best friend].
Me: Good! I need to be in bed by 7:30... so you should make dinner while you're calling him.
Joe: No, that's impossible.
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Despicable
I saw this bumper sticker today, and it made me furious!
I haven’t actively practiced Christianity, or any religion, for nearly a decade now. However, it doesn’t matter what religion you do or don’t care for to recognize that Jesus, the man, the philosopher (if not god incarnate) stood for love and social justice. He was killed standing up for those beliefs, as a martyr, by a...
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Here’s something random to read for your Monday.
One of the number one reasons I don’t mind staying in my current job is my boss; confusingly, he’s one of the number one reasons I want to leave. Let me get the nice stuff out of the way so I can rail on him. He has offered to pick Joe and me up from Albuquerque before, at 2am. He has driven me to the laundromat when Joe was out...
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I've never much cared for April Fools' Day.
mandyelizabeth:
Probably because sometimes I can be a bit gullible, and I also don’t think I’m much good at pulling pranks.
Andrea holds the record for best prank ever pulled on me though. Freshman year of college we were planning our first adult vacation alone together to Disneyland and that morning she woke me up, in what was to me a rather convincing panic during my sleepy state, to tell me...
March 2013
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Random thoughts, because I am having them, and no one is posting on the internet (except Rob Lowe, on Twitter), so I am going to write them down now.
I finished listening to “Dune” last week, and have now seen Children of Dune (with a young James McAvoy) at least five times. I went on to read Wikipedia summaries of what happens, which I’ve done before, but now that I know the...
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My first wedding... as a photographer
Wow! What a weekend. What was already a long, tiring, frustrating week (seven straight days of work; the last five of those were opens that had me up at 3:15AM), was capped by a flurry of adventure in photographing my first wedding, ever. The absolute, defining factor of our day was the New Mexico spring wind rolling through all of the places we were supposed to stop and take photos. The bride was...
mandyelizabeth asked: I want to hear all about photographing the wedding!
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Clapton
So I’m back from Phoenix and the Eric Clapton concert I’ve been anticipating. Aside from seeing Eric Clapton, I also went there to celebrate my birthday and visit with Joe’s two brothers, Zack and Sam. My birthday was Wednesday (March 13), and my one true wish was to go to IKEA for my birthday. Quick and dirty: these men take the magic out of IKEA and I’m giving up going...
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Genealogy Notes
Hi! Sorry it’s been so long. I haven’t felt like I’ve had much to write, especially considering most of my writing time is now going into schoolwork (yay!). I also haven’t done a lot of cooking that is new. My biggest diversion outside of work, school, and internetting (I am failing miserably at my goal to give it up more this year, though I haven’t given up) is...
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February 2013
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The ongoing list of cooking items Joe and I have made it this far without:
Paintbrush
Tart pan
Strainer
Crockpot
Will amend and address over time.
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Mistress Peterson
My big news right now is that I got an email from my long-time advisor at NMSU and all-time favorite professor a couple weeks ago telling me that there’s an option for people like me to finish my Master’s degree. When I say “people like me,” I mean us poor schmucks who made it all the way through the Government Department graduate program’s coursework but somehow hit...
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