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  The Nivens Family

March 2018 Recap

3/31/2018

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I have to try a bit harder to find the beauty in March. I found it in this grouping of trees at Lyndale Park.
March 2018 was a milestone month for me. I resigned the job I had for six years and started a new job in a different field. Speaking of milestones, we also celebrated Stewie's 100th birthday with lots of friends. 

18 in 18

  • Host a 100th birthday party for Stewie
Read the 18 in 18 list

March 2018 Highlights

  • Final round interview and JOB OFFER for Education Program Specialist job in the Center for Educational Innovation (CEI) at the University of Minnesota
  • First day of new job at CEI 
  • Self-guided tour of newly renovated Tate Laboratory of Physics building at the University of Minnesota with Laura (time lapse of construction)
  • Walking Book Club: Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London  with a walk around Lake of the Isles afterward
  • Happy Hour at Jen's house with Erin and Miranda
  • Lenton Enchiladas with Heidi at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church
  • Pizza with Caroline
  • Attended the FIRST® Robotics Minnneapolis Regionals Competition

March 2018 Low Point

  • Last day working in the University of Minnesota's Academic Health Center 
Hand drawn poster for Hippie Fest Music Experience
Surprisingly effective advertising
View of Capella tower in downtown Minneapolis
Sunset at Loring Park
Sunset at Loring Park
Leftover ice lanterns at Minnehaha Creek
Fragile. Resilient. You can be both at the same time.
Two kids with shovel and ice chipper
Removing a thick layer of ice covers on the sidewalk.
View of trees on a snowy day
Walking by McNamara Alumni Center at the University of Minnesota on a snowy day
Stewie on a walk
Stewie walk
Stewie laying on my lap in the car
Happy 100th Birthday Stewie!
Tree with colorful yarn balls hanging from its limbs
The day I was offered a new job I found this cheery tree!

Moving My Body

Total steps: 456,589 (14,729 steps averaged a day)
Total miles: 194.93 (6.28 miles averaged a day)
Most active day: Saturday, March 17 (30,039 steps/12.73 miles)
Least active day:  Wednesday, March 7 (10,139 steps/4.35 miles)

Memorable walks: 
  • Walking Book Club 
  • Semla/Brew Walk to Fika and Venn Brewing
View inside Tate Laboratory of Physics
Historic telescope in the dome of the Tate Laboratory of Physics & Astronomy
Dried blossoms
Beauty of late Winter/early Spring
View of mural at Cedar Riverside light rail station
Broken Crow mural at Cedar Riverside light rail station
Truck with a giant dinosaur head on its cab
Powderhorn Park never disappoints
Amundson Hall at the University of Minnesota
Amundson Hall at the University of Minnesota
Tiny door street art featuring pistachio shells with faces drawn on them
Tiny door street art collaboration between Mows510 and Pisface
Foshay reflecting on the AT&T Tower
Foshay reflections
Sunrise
Sunrise dog walk

Professional Development ​

  • Table host for Hennepin University Partnership table Spring Mixer: Disparities in Community Corrections
  • Google Day volunteer
  • Nonprofit Communications and Technology Conference

Read + Watch + Listen

TV
  • 90th Academy Awards
  • Borderliner
  • Collateral
  • This is Us season 2
Movies
  • Black Panther
  • Coco
  • The Experimental City
  • The Gift 
  • The Shape of Water​
Books
  • Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty 
Podcasts
  • Black Market Reads
  • Code Switch
  • It's Been a Minute with Sam Sanders
  • Levar Burton Reads
  • Pod Save the People
  • Still Processing
  • Terrible, Thanks for Asking
  • The Daily
Blanket with message "Welcome to Enchilada Friday" on wall
Lenton Enchilada Friday
Scott and Janelle
Look happy
Semla from Fika
Annual semla treat
Tree limbs
Appreciating the beauty of trees
A part of a machine looks like a face
Pareidolia
Janelle standing on a textured sidewalk
Not feeling it
Mayo Memorial Building
Entrance into Mayo Memorial Building where I worked for six years
Puddle on the sidewalk with a reflection of a tree
Had an emotional day, so I went for a walk to reflect.
The word "shine" painted on the exterior of a building
Half of a Rise & Shine mural

Eat + Drink

  • The Cove
  • Surly Brewing Company taproom
  • Bordertown Coffee
  • Sebastian Joe's Ice Cream
  • Red Wagon
  • Punch Pizza
  • Lakes & Legends
  • The Lowbrow
  • Stub & Herbs
  • Pizzeria Lola
  • Aster Cafe
  • Fika
  • Bull's Horn
  • Venn Brewing
  • The Naughty Greek
  • Milk Jam Creamery
  • Longellow Grill
  • Bar Luchador
Milk Jam Creamy flavors honoring women for Women's History Month. I chose Ibtihaj Muhammad and Tarana Burke.
March for Our Lives
Minion bollard
My neighbor Carolyn Halliday's art in the Artists in the Kitchen exhibition at the Textile Center
Atrium art
Spotted in the neighborhood
Scott with a ScotBot at a robotics competition
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