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| Howdy from Phoenix, AZ all!
I'm currently in Arizona for the Space Access conference. While I'm sitting here, learning about all the speakers and google-ing everyone I meet, I realized 2 things:
1. Xanga is a waste of my time- all I do now is come on and read featured posts that are mildly funny, and delete messages from fake-Xanga's who claim they are hot chicks from Russia and want me to sign up on some dating site.
2. I need a professional, personal website where I can pseudo-blog about professional stuff.
What does this mean to you, the rare person who occasionally reads my Xanga posts?
Well, it means i will be Xanga-ing EXTREMELY less once my site goes live. I will follow the way of James Huynh and give most of my time to a new site (even though James rarely updates his new blog  ).
If anyone is still alive in Xanga-land, speak up!
P.S: In looking through past entries, I've realized I used to use this blog to let people know about cool music I've found. I'll continue to do that now with Mumford & Sons. This band is amazing!
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| Howdy Xanga World!
Exciting news today as video and program materials have been released for the non-profit initiative I work for, WeWantOurFuture.org. The response has been great! tons of retweets, feature on several news following sites, and even a feature on the British blog Hyperbola!
VIDEO: We want our future - Hyperbola
I'm trying to inspire 100,000 children through exploration, and create a unified voice for our youth. We can't leave students behind or uninspired just because of their geographic location, or their family's income. We have a comprehensive video, presentation, and letter from a former astronaut! Check it out at http://wewantourfuture.org/
So come on Teachers and Community Leaders of Xanga, help out!
-Matt
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| Howdy Xangains (the few of you left).
I feel like less and less people read my blog with each posts, and I'm surprisingly at ease with that. When I first created my xanga only a handful of people actually read it, and the blog itself seemed more about me, and for me. Then there was the balloon of popularity, but it seems that this "blog for me" state has come back... and I like it.
I entered into this weekend more confused about my life than ever. So many important choices and possibilities lay ahead of me in the near future, and I feel no more closer to deciding anything than I was at the beginning of the year. Gone is my hunger and ferocity to attack my choices head on, and I'm left with a hollow feeling in my gut, a looming elephant sitting in the corner of the room. Compounded with the other dumb personal issues my life has, and the fact that I'm living in the middle of nowhere desert, and it mixes together in a giant, uncomfortable swell
I entered into this weekend feeling more confused about my life than ever, and I will probably leave it that way. However, its good to know that I've found some good new music, a good book to read, and ways to ease my wave of nausea. Hiking, exploring, and doing general things that make me feel alive help the awkward moments pass. Its no solution, but its a start.
"And love is but an ocean, unrealistic notion, but I cling to her devotion, and let it pull me down to the floor."
-Matt
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| Howdy! coming at you live from Santa Monica Boulevard. At a Subaru dealership, in fact.
My boss is getting a new car, on his way to the airport (odd, i know) to go off to conferences for 2 weeks. So I volunteered to drive to Santa Monica (a solid 2 hours)... Now, I'm waiting for him to finish all the paperwork, which means by the time I get back to the office, work will be done for the day. woot!
Things in Cali are going really well besides. The desert life is boring, but it seems to get better and better each weekend.
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| howdy all,
so my year is 60% already planned out. I am excited for this upcoming year, but it will be tremendously busy.
Currently, I am in Denver, Colorado visiting my girlfriend and friends, and finishing up the last of my graduate school applications. the rest of my year is as follows:
Jan 18-May 18: Intern at Masten Space Systems
I am extremely excited about working with this small start-up rocket company in the Mojave Desert, CA. I will be living and working in the desert, getting certified on many things, learning how to weld, and building rockets!
May 24-Aug 13: Operations Manager for Propulsion Academy program at NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center
I will be going back to Marshall, this time as manager of the intern program I graduated from last summer. I look forward to inspiring my interns, gaining engineering management experience, and
End of Aug?- Dec: Attending Graduate School at TBD:
I have completed numerous grad school applications, and am waiting to hear if I get accepted, and where.
So, thats my life for the next 12 months. Kind of ridiculous that its 13 days into the year and its already planned out. What do you plan to do in 2010?
-Matt
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