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By Jess, October 29, 2009 10:32 am

Believe it or not, my life has not changed since my New York Times microfame.  I am still uninsured (although this is supposedly changing soon according to eHealthInsurance.com), and I’m still working hard to make a living.  I was very tickled, though, that some people noticed my mention on their own!  Thanks.

I’ve continued to neglect Gitnerblog in favor of my duties as Blog Editor at NPR, but I just posted my second blog post for NPR’s i.e. blog.  Check it out here or read the except below.

“I’m scared.”  Sometimes I say this out loud to myself before I go to bed.  Not every night, of course.  “I’m scared” is not my peculiar version of bedtime prayer. (I don’t do that either.)  I just say it out loud to address the elephant in the room, to quell the fear.

So what am I scared of?  I’m scared of what comes next and where I’ll end up.  I’m not referring to the afterlife.  I mean… what will I be doing in a few months?  Where will I be living?

Roughly five months ago I graduated from college, and I could only find temporary work.  To complement that, I found temporary housing in an eccentric group house in Georgetown.  “Eccentric” is potentially too kind a word for the house I lived in.  It was messy, and I shared my space with both mice and cockroaches, as well as the occasional hippie house guest.  “How many hippies are sleeping on the floor today?” my roommate would ask me.  We would even bet on it some mornings.  My situation wasn’t ideal, but I felt some comfort in the consistency of things–even if it was just hippies sleeping on the floor.  Then that arrangement expired.

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By Jess, October 22, 2009 10:10 am

Thanks to a blog post and a tweet (see? Web 2.0 works!), I’m pictured and quoted in the special CARS section of today’s New York Times.

Read it here or pick up a copy!

And thanks to Micheline Maynard of NYT for finding me in the muck of the internet and for her recent guest post at NPR’s i.e. blog.

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By Jess, October 5, 2009 8:26 pm

While I’m clearly not producing daily content for Gitnerblog, I am editing daily content for another blog: NPR’s i.e. (or Intern Edition).

Yours truly is Blog Editor for i.e., and I’d love it if any Gitnerblog supporters would head over to the i.e. Blog to check out our posts.

When I have time, I also write for the i.e. blog.  Check out my recent post on hearing my favorite song for the first time here or read below:

I saw The Royal Tenenbaums for the first time back in 2002.  I don’t remember the exact occasion — it probably isn’t worth remembering: something involving my parents driving me to Blockbuster on a pathetically uneventful Friday night.

I do remember that my expectations were level.

That’s why I was totally unprepared for the following scene:

My life changed at 0:41 when, in the clip above, Margot Tenenbaum (played by Gwenyth Paltrow) took those slow motion steps from the Green Line Bus.

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