Last week was fantastic. The only week of good weather we've had yet this summer, and a friend just happened to be house-sitting at a house with a pool and a nice deck. A bunch of us hung out every evening, laying out by the pool, swimming, and barbecuing. It was a lot of fun.
Marshall was here Sunday and Monday. We barbecued with Charlie & Becky Sunday night, then Monday was a bunch of errands he had to run and then helping Charlie & Becky move some stuff to their new place before grabbing some dinner and meeting some friends for a drink.
This week is more job hunting. Still haven't hear anything from anyone =/ I think I'm going wedding dress shopping with Becky this weekend before I head to VA. I'm not sure when her and Charlie are actually getting married though. Then Saturday afternoon I head to VA. I get to see Marshall 3 weekends in a row =) He's coming here to see Les Miserables with me on the 12!
30 June 2009
18 June 2009
15 June 2009
12 June 2009
Home, Kim's Wedding, etc.
Nothing too exciting going on in Pittsburgh...except maybe the Pen's winning the Stanley Cup tonight =P
Anyways, being home last week was lots of fun. Kim & Kenny's wedding was beautiful. (Pictures are here; some of them are from other people which is why they're not in order).
Marshall also came to visit for a couple days :) We had a lot of fun, and all my friends really like him :)
Still nothing jobwise, but something will turn up I'm sure.
No exciting updates for work either. Just working on the Leadership Portfolio Program.
I'm going away for the weekend. Sarah's grandparents own a cabin by some lake, so about 15 of us are going there tomorrow and Sunday, which should be fun.
I also registered for the Philadelphia Half Marathon on Sept 20. Amanda and I are going to do it. If anyone else wants to, it's $65 til June 15th, then the registration fee goes up. If you're not up to walking or running 13.1 miles and are in the area, come meet us at the finish line!
Anyways, being home last week was lots of fun. Kim & Kenny's wedding was beautiful. (Pictures are here; some of them are from other people which is why they're not in order).
Marshall also came to visit for a couple days :) We had a lot of fun, and all my friends really like him :)
Still nothing jobwise, but something will turn up I'm sure.
No exciting updates for work either. Just working on the Leadership Portfolio Program.
I'm going away for the weekend. Sarah's grandparents own a cabin by some lake, so about 15 of us are going there tomorrow and Sunday, which should be fun.
I also registered for the Philadelphia Half Marathon on Sept 20. Amanda and I are going to do it. If anyone else wants to, it's $65 til June 15th, then the registration fee goes up. If you're not up to walking or running 13.1 miles and are in the area, come meet us at the finish line!
13 May 2009
Life as Master Mary
I graduated with the exact same GPA (3.75) that I had when I graduated from Etown. At least I'm consistent... =)
Last week was our Nigerian Executive Leadership seminar for work, so that kept me busy. We took them to see a Pittsburgh Pirate's game one night, but they didn't like it, so we left after the 2nd inning. I'm probably going to spend the rest of the summer work with David on getting the leadership program up and running because he's probably going to be in charge of it once I leave. (If I haven't mentioned it yet, my proposal was approved at the last faculty meeting!) I'm pretty excited about that.
Lauren & I
Marshall came to visit for the past couple days, and we had a lot of fun. We had a cookout with our friends Charlie and Becky one night and went to a Pirates game one night. He's looking to buy a house in Pittsburgh, so we drove around looking at houses a lot.
Other than that, I've pretty much just been looking for and applying for jobs and hanging out with the neighbors. I'm heading out to State College tomorrow for Michael's graduation, and I'll be home at the end of the month for Kim's wedding, so I'll probably see most of you in the next couple weeks =)
Last week was our Nigerian Executive Leadership seminar for work, so that kept me busy. We took them to see a Pittsburgh Pirate's game one night, but they didn't like it, so we left after the 2nd inning. I'm probably going to spend the rest of the summer work with David on getting the leadership program up and running because he's probably going to be in charge of it once I leave. (If I haven't mentioned it yet, my proposal was approved at the last faculty meeting!) I'm pretty excited about that.
David & I
Lauren & I
Other than that, I've pretty much just been looking for and applying for jobs and hanging out with the neighbors. I'm heading out to State College tomorrow for Michael's graduation, and I'll be home at the end of the month for Kim's wedding, so I'll probably see most of you in the next couple weeks =)
03 May 2009
Half Marathon Results
| Bib | FName | LName | City | State | Country | Div | Age | Sex | ChipTime | ClockTime | Overall | SexPl | DivPl |
| 7401 | Mary | Larzelere | Pittsburgh | PA | USA | Women 20-24 | 24 | F | 3:23:50 | 2:24:09 | 3950 | 2315 | 334 |
The clock time is different b/c walkers started an hour before runners, and they started the clock with the runners. (I also stopped for a potty break partway through)
There were well over 10,000 entrants, so I was in the top half! (ok, statistics are deceiving...4083 people finished the half marathon, avg time was 2:14:52, so I didn't do that great, but I finished!) Better shoes definitely would've helped me a lot. Oh well...next time. It was a great experience. Amanda finished in a little over 2 hours running it.
Official race pictures should be up in a couple days, so I'll post them when I get them. Amanda and I are showering and then crashing. We got up at 4:30 am. What a day, and it's only lunchtime! (We stopped at the Greek Food Festival for lunch...YUMMY!)
27 April 2009
Graduation Pictures
GSPIA Class of 2009
Pitt Panther & I
Family Picture
The guys I play darts with every Wednesday
Marshall & I
My prof/boss & I
Sandra & I
The girls
01 April 2009
Gala Pictures
Mark, his wife, Charlie & Becky, Me & Marshall
The girls & I
Marshall & I
Beautiful in Blue
Chris & I
The younger staff members of the JI
There was a kiddie area...I didn't go down the slide b/c of the dress :(
The Gala was at Heinz History Center so there were all kinds of cool things around
Sandra & I
Becky & I
29 March 2009
Less than a month to go...
Things have been busy as usual. School is going well. We're running a half of a board retreat halfway through April for our consulting client, so that should be interesting. Other than that, nothing too exciting there.
I've sent out my resume to a bunch of companies, primarily international development consulting firms, but haven't heard back from anyone yet. I sure picked a fantastic time to graduate. There aren't many jobs available right now. Kevin said I can keep working at the Johnson Institute over the summer, so I will at least have something after graduation. I'm going to try to pick up another job around here as well until I find something permanent. Hopefully I'll have something at least by the time our lease runs out at the end of July. A good friend of mine here wants to start an organization to combat human trafficking in Latin America, and we've been talking a bit about that. I may become Chair of the Board of Directors and help him and his fiancee get that set up.
I had a lot of fun over spring break when Liz & Lisa came out to Pittsburgh. It was nice to do some of the touristy stuff that I've been wanting to do. We went to Phipps Conservatory and the Mattress Factory (a modern art museum). Both were lots of fun. I also went to the St. Patrick's Day Parade, which was kinda fun, but too long and cold so Ari and I left halfway through. Soccer season ended last week. We didn't win any games, but we had fun. Finally, last night was our GSPIA Gala. I had a really good time. (Mom, I ended up having a date after all. A friend of mine and I went with our friends Charlie & Becky.)
The pictures:
Liz, Lisa, and I at Phipps
Some random headless statues outside the mattress factory
exhibit at the mattress factory
at the mattress factory
another exhibit...everything slid back and forth between rooms. you could put the beds halfway back and they made chairs on one side and a bed on the other. we were just being goofy
out salsa dancing with my neighbor andrew (who doesn't salsa, but came with us just to hang out) and my friend shawn (who does salsa)
Ari, Cristian, and I at the St. Patrick's Day Parade
Everybody at our favorite bar down the street from Charlie & Becky's for St. Patty's Day
Soccer team picture...our team got smaller and smaller towards the end...this was before our last game
I'll post Gala pictures soon.
I've sent out my resume to a bunch of companies, primarily international development consulting firms, but haven't heard back from anyone yet. I sure picked a fantastic time to graduate. There aren't many jobs available right now. Kevin said I can keep working at the Johnson Institute over the summer, so I will at least have something after graduation. I'm going to try to pick up another job around here as well until I find something permanent. Hopefully I'll have something at least by the time our lease runs out at the end of July. A good friend of mine here wants to start an organization to combat human trafficking in Latin America, and we've been talking a bit about that. I may become Chair of the Board of Directors and help him and his fiancee get that set up.
I had a lot of fun over spring break when Liz & Lisa came out to Pittsburgh. It was nice to do some of the touristy stuff that I've been wanting to do. We went to Phipps Conservatory and the Mattress Factory (a modern art museum). Both were lots of fun. I also went to the St. Patrick's Day Parade, which was kinda fun, but too long and cold so Ari and I left halfway through. Soccer season ended last week. We didn't win any games, but we had fun. Finally, last night was our GSPIA Gala. I had a really good time. (Mom, I ended up having a date after all. A friend of mine and I went with our friends Charlie & Becky.)
The pictures:
Liz, Lisa, and I at Phipps
Some random headless statues outside the mattress factory
exhibit at the mattress factory
at the mattress factory
another exhibit...everything slid back and forth between rooms. you could put the beds halfway back and they made chairs on one side and a bed on the other. we were just being goofy
out salsa dancing with my neighbor andrew (who doesn't salsa, but came with us just to hang out) and my friend shawn (who does salsa)
Ari, Cristian, and I at the St. Patrick's Day Parade
Everybody at our favorite bar down the street from Charlie & Becky's for St. Patty's Day
Soccer team picture...our team got smaller and smaller towards the end...this was before our last game
I'll post Gala pictures soon.
04 March 2009
i have less than 2 months left...whoa
School updates:
School's going well. For once, I didn't have a ton of work due in the past week or so and had a chance to catch up on some other stuff that needed to be done, although that will change after break. I finally heard back from my professor from last semester, and he said he's going to start looking at and revising my paper (on globalization and happiness) for publication. I'm excited about that. I'm going to do a paper on a similar topic, but in a different area/different focus for another class this semester dealing with civil society presence in peace processes and how that relates to happiness.
Work is also going well. I'm submitting my final proposal for the leadership portfolio I've been working on developing this week for my boss to present at the faculty meeting next month, so that's pretty cool. We have a lot of events coming up in the next month or so too. A diversity in the workplace lecture and workshop, then our exemplary leader conference. Colleen Rowley, from the cover of Time Magazine a couple years ago is coming. She was recognized as being the FBI whistleblower after 9/11. She seems like a pretty awesome lady. It's against her personal code of ethics to accept awards or honorariums, so we decided to get rid of the whole award thing, and turn it into a lecture series.
Life & Everything Else:
I started applying for jobs and posting my resume places last week. I've posted my resume on USAJobs and Abt Associates, and applied for a research assistant position at the Brookings Institution within their Global Economy and Development program. I'm also going to apply to Chemonics Entry Level Professionals program. I'm sure there will be a lot of other places in the next couple weeks.
Fun stuff in the past couple weeks...we had a mardi gras party here, went out for my friend Becky's birthday, hung out with the neighbors a couple times. One of them was the music director for a high school music so his roommate and I went to see that this past weekend. It was some musical called Children of Eden, and it was pretty good.
Spring break is this coming week. I'm heading home Friday, then Liz and Lisa are coming back to Pittsburgh with me Tuesday! Can't wait =)
Manuel & I
yay Mardi Gras!
Sandra decided to take pictures of us in the midst of negotiations during our Darfur simulation for our NGOs and Humanitarian Disasters course
School's going well. For once, I didn't have a ton of work due in the past week or so and had a chance to catch up on some other stuff that needed to be done, although that will change after break. I finally heard back from my professor from last semester, and he said he's going to start looking at and revising my paper (on globalization and happiness) for publication. I'm excited about that. I'm going to do a paper on a similar topic, but in a different area/different focus for another class this semester dealing with civil society presence in peace processes and how that relates to happiness.
Work is also going well. I'm submitting my final proposal for the leadership portfolio I've been working on developing this week for my boss to present at the faculty meeting next month, so that's pretty cool. We have a lot of events coming up in the next month or so too. A diversity in the workplace lecture and workshop, then our exemplary leader conference. Colleen Rowley, from the cover of Time Magazine a couple years ago is coming. She was recognized as being the FBI whistleblower after 9/11. She seems like a pretty awesome lady. It's against her personal code of ethics to accept awards or honorariums, so we decided to get rid of the whole award thing, and turn it into a lecture series.
Life & Everything Else:
I started applying for jobs and posting my resume places last week. I've posted my resume on USAJobs and Abt Associates, and applied for a research assistant position at the Brookings Institution within their Global Economy and Development program. I'm also going to apply to Chemonics Entry Level Professionals program. I'm sure there will be a lot of other places in the next couple weeks.
Fun stuff in the past couple weeks...we had a mardi gras party here, went out for my friend Becky's birthday, hung out with the neighbors a couple times. One of them was the music director for a high school music so his roommate and I went to see that this past weekend. It was some musical called Children of Eden, and it was pretty good.
Spring break is this coming week. I'm heading home Friday, then Liz and Lisa are coming back to Pittsburgh with me Tuesday! Can't wait =)
Becky & I out for her birthday
Mardi Gras Party
Me, Sandra & Ashley
Me, Sandra & Ashley
Manuel & I
yay Mardi Gras!
Sandra decided to take pictures of us in the midst of negotiations during our Darfur simulation for our NGOs and Humanitarian Disasters course
10 February 2009
Quick update: School is going well. I'm especially enjoying my GIS course and consulting. The consulting is a really good experience although our client is a bit frustrating. It's typical small ngo issues though. The executive director knows a lot about what the org is doing service-wise and absolutely nothing about running an organization...and therefore the board of directors has no idea what their role and duties are. We definitely have our work cut out for us.
Last week, I was sick, so I didn't go to school Monday morning or Tuesday. (I did go Monday afternoon b/c I didn't want to have to make up my EMT lab.) I'm feeling much better though.
Fun stuff: Friday night, my neighbors and I went to this restaurant a couple blocks up the street that has jazz artists on Fridays and is also well known for good desserts. So we went up there for some jazz and I had a glass of wine and this fantastic chocolately goodness called the bomb which is a shell of chocolate cake with chocolate mousse on the inside.....yummy!
Then Saturday, a friend of the neighbors, who I met through them, had an open house followed by a cocktail party for prospective clients because he finally got his recording studio all finished, so I went to that with the neighbors to support him.
This week I start training for the Pittsburgh Half Marathon. I did 2.1 miles today! (ok, I walked a tenth of a mile every half mile, but it's a start, and I've been sick.) Any contributions to the Mary needs running shoes are more than welcome. This whole marathon thing is expensive! It was $65 just to register. Amanda is definitely coming out to run it with me, and Liz and Lisa are thinking about it. The marathon is May 3.
And a couple pictures:
Last week, I was sick, so I didn't go to school Monday morning or Tuesday. (I did go Monday afternoon b/c I didn't want to have to make up my EMT lab.) I'm feeling much better though.
Fun stuff: Friday night, my neighbors and I went to this restaurant a couple blocks up the street that has jazz artists on Fridays and is also well known for good desserts. So we went up there for some jazz and I had a glass of wine and this fantastic chocolately goodness called the bomb which is a shell of chocolate cake with chocolate mousse on the inside.....yummy!
Then Saturday, a friend of the neighbors, who I met through them, had an open house followed by a cocktail party for prospective clients because he finally got his recording studio all finished, so I went to that with the neighbors to support him.
This week I start training for the Pittsburgh Half Marathon. I did 2.1 miles today! (ok, I walked a tenth of a mile every half mile, but it's a start, and I've been sick.) Any contributions to the Mary needs running shoes are more than welcome. This whole marathon thing is expensive! It was $65 just to register. Amanda is definitely coming out to run it with me, and Liz and Lisa are thinking about it. The marathon is May 3.
And a couple pictures:
me and the girls at a friend's birthday party
me, the neighbors & Jesse (Jesse is the tall one)
27 January 2009
Well, it's still below freezing here in Pittsburgh, but it's not below zero at least. Not too much exciting going on. I'm mostly busy with school. I went to a gallery crawl downtown with Chris, Becky and Cristian, and we met up with Tommy and his roommate and and another of their friends this past Friday night. We went to a bunch of art galleries and had a lot of fun.
out after the gallery crawl
Trivial Pursuit/Movie Night at Tommy's
out after the gallery crawl
16 January 2009
It currently feels like -9 degrees here in Pittsburgh...
Well, I've survived my first two weeks of classes. I've decided not to do EMT clinicals. It was just going to be way too much with everything else. Classes are pretty interesting. I had my first consulting class last night and our clients gave brief presentations about their organizations and what they need. I'm in a group of 6 and we're going to be working with the Sexual Assault Response Team of Allegheny County on board development and leadership issues. That should be pretty interesting, although like a 2nd part time job. I think it will be a really good experience.
I have still managed to find some time for fun.
Oh, just realized I never posted about New Years. One of my neighbors...actually, a friend of theirs, but he's always around...owns a recording studio downtown, so we hung out there for a bit, had some sandwiches, had a nerf gun war, then went outside to watch the fireworks. We then came back to our house where Sarah was having a party. It was quite fun.
Nerf Gun War
We had a game night the other night to play the new game mom got me for Christmas, Partini.
Anyways, back to more recently...one of my other neighbors needed a date for some dinner last weekend. He's a musician and accompanies Alcoa's choral group and they had their annual dinner at Le Mont, which is this really nice restaurant up on Mount Washington with a fantastic view of the city (except it was foggy Sat night). The food was excellent, and it was a lot of fun.
Then Wednesday night, my friend Tommy took me out to dinner at Dave & Busters. We had a lot of fun playing games and stuff.
I have still managed to find some time for fun.
Oh, just realized I never posted about New Years. One of my neighbors...actually, a friend of theirs, but he's always around...owns a recording studio downtown, so we hung out there for a bit, had some sandwiches, had a nerf gun war, then went outside to watch the fireworks. We then came back to our house where Sarah was having a party. It was quite fun.
Sarah & I
Nerf Gun War
We had a game night the other night to play the new game mom got me for Christmas, Partini.
Cristian 
Brian, Me, & Sarah
Brian, Me, & Sarah
Anyways, back to more recently...one of my other neighbors needed a date for some dinner last weekend. He's a musician and accompanies Alcoa's choral group and they had their annual dinner at Le Mont, which is this really nice restaurant up on Mount Washington with a fantastic view of the city (except it was foggy Sat night). The food was excellent, and it was a lot of fun.
Brian & I at Le Mont
Then Wednesday night, my friend Tommy took me out to dinner at Dave & Busters. We had a lot of fun playing games and stuff.
Tommy & I playing skee ball
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