Okay so I don't have too much time to do this, but I figured that if I didn't get to it, there'd be too much going on for me to go back and catch it all. So this is a really quick update on what's been happening since I got to NASA almost a week and a half ago. So yeah I left NC and came up here to the DC area, where I'm staying College Park, because NASA decided that they wouldn't pay for the extra accomodations in Laurel Square, but I am happy to report that the apartment is actually quite nice considering what I had in my mind in the beginning. There's two bedrooms with two beds in them a piece, a nice bathroom and a nice kitchen and stove and microwave etc. So that's the good part. The area is nice with lots of bustling going around, and there's a shopping convienience area right now the road from the apartment complex, so that's good. The area is actually quite easy to navigate once you get the hang of the bus system that is around in the area to take you where you wanna go. Add to that the UM system thats roaming around, and it's really easy to go places.
So I've also started my job here at NASA Goddard, and I'm working in the PAO office or the Public Affairs office in the Education division. And currently after only a week of being here, I am doing five to six projects simultaneously with a job offer in the works. (Not bad for a week, huh?) lol. I met my mentor Mr. Dwayne Washington and he's a really nice guy that reminds me a lot of dad. So he kinda looks out for me and doesn't try to overbury me with work, though there's a lot of stuff that needs to be done, like for example, I have to press releases for the 220+ interns that are here, and then when that's done we have to send them to the respective states and campuses. Then the 2006 Nobel Prize winner for Physics Mr. John Mather asked our department to put together a pamphlet for his presentation series that's coming up real soon, which is cool. And then I have to write a few articles for the Goddard View, one of which has already been completed on Mrs. Lynn Harden, who's retiring from Goddard soon. The other one I'm doing will be this afternoon on a 15 year old named Evan I think, who's come from the United Kingdom to visit Goddard and make a presentation for his class back in England.
On top of that, I also have to develop a pamphlet for the Education department here at Goddard that deplays all of their information in a nice and neat handy package so that visitors will know what they do when they look at it. And starting next week, I'll also be responsible for the Goddard Dateline, which is in online and printed service that shows the upcoming events for the Center for the day at large, which has to be done everyday and turned in by 3:30. So yeah all in all, I have a good-sized plate of work, though there's more that keeps coming every moment, and yet I still have time to play with the PSP (I got rid of that Nintendo bullshit) and get a few hours with the PS3, every once in a while.
Over the weekend, I decided to try something new and I went to downtown DC to look around a little bit and ended up having to wheel all the way from the Smithsonian museum to the Lincoln Memorial which is a good mile and a half between each other, and then came back to go all the way to DuPont avenue for the 2007 Gay Pride Parade which was happening downtown. And that was absolutely great! I've never seen anything quite like it, and I can kind of understand why NC would never allow such things in their state. But I'm happy that DC is cool with it, and DuPont avenue is quite an interesting place. As a matter of fact that's where I met Chuck (this cute older gentlemen who invited me to his place after the fact, which I turned down to get home) and most recently Scott, who's a professional photographer with his own photo company. Scott was there at the parade and it turns out I was sitting on his front steps, and we talked and it eventually led to him asking me to model for him, which I'm still in the works considering. (We've been talking about it for a few days now). And then something else may come out of that, but I'm not too sure. However in the back of my mind, all I really wanna see now is VJ. But he's in Chapel Hill so I'll have to wait a few more weeks before I get a chance to glance at him again. *sigh* oh well. More coming later. And peep the pics!
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