Today I followed Tommy, my landlord’s 14 year old cat, around from sunspot to sunspot, sitting on one patch of moss until a shadow came to join me, then heading for another. I was thinking a lot about how this acceptance to CPC means that my time in the woods may be counting down…Realistically, it would be a waste of this opportunity not to let them find me a job. And at best that job is going to be in San Francisco or Los Angeles, only a couple plane hours away from my beloved family, forest, and boy (Andreas has another year left at The Evergreen State College, so he’ll be in Olympia until June 2002 no matter what). At worst, it’s going to be in NYC…and we’ll see if I like that idea.

Speaking of CPC, I have to write a 100 word biography that will be “circulated to guest speakers and sent out to prospective employers.” Gulp. What do you think of this?…

When Ariel Meadow Stallings took a year off from her Sociology studies at the University of Washington in 1996, she hadn’t expected to find her career outside the classroom. Bored by her interim job, she began writing for magazines, eventually becoming Executive Editor of Lotus, a rave culture magazine/youth outreach project. During Ariel’s four years with Lotus, the magazine grew from a small California zine to a nationally distributed 100 page full-color glossy — all the while remaining free to readers. Ariel lives in the rainforest near Seattle, WA, where she hones her sense of the absurd while freelance writing for Amazon.com.