Don't count on me to be a loafer - I'm no good at it. Natural idlers, I've found, will relax with envious ease. For me, transitioning from working non-stop to not at all is, and always has been, awkward. But what transition isn't?

Ho Ho Home for Good

After staying an extra two and a half weeks, and surviving (this Floridian's first) blizzard, I finally made it back to Tallahassee. It's been an uneventful and somewhat chaotic past coupla days - trying to survive the Christmas holiday and the barrage of visiting family members, ignoring the piles of unpacked luggage in my room, and getting re-acquainted to the slow sleepy pace of north Florida.

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whiskey summer's fawn,
percolates displaced years to
steep my winter bones.

The Start of Something

Alright, so this blog is about to take a much more active (fingers crossed) and fresh turn. Presently, I am in South Carolina visiting with the Mom, but tomorrow I'm driving my Civic, which is busting at the seams with my belongings, to DC. Starting Tuesday I will be the new intern at the NPR News Desk. Yep, that's me. I'm not sure exactly what I'll be doing, but I do know that I'll be working with the senior editor learning how to edit, manage, dole out news stories, yadda yadda yadda.

There are far too many layers of excitement, nervousness, and fright to explain just what is going through my mind. I've never lived outside of Tallahassee. I've never signed a lease (until last week). I've never had a long distance relationship. I've never lived in a house nor have I lived with multiple roommates.

My friends tell me I'll thrive in DC, that I'll love the culture, the pace, and the politically-charged atmosphere. I don't disagree.

Radio Stories

A not-so comprehensive work that I did for WFSU during the summer and spring of 2009.

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wfsu/news.newsmain?action=search&advanced=true&newSearch=true&searchOption=1&TEASE_WORDS=Diao&BYLINE_WORDS=&x=0&y=0

SUG 2009

Today I officially finished a month of law lectures, visiting law firms, law classes, future law students, etc. Today I officially can say I do not want to be a lawyer.

Not to rule a JD out of my future. But a month of people telling me what steps I should do to get into a top 15 school, where I should be looking for the next steps in my life makes me start to wonder what life is. There are too many lawyers in the world. I don't want to be one of them.

Student March Spot