Stegel's Thoughts & Learnings

It is beginning to feel a little empty here in Connecticut. All my friends have decided to up and start leaving, going back to college and that whole shtick. I, on the other will be stuck here (by choice) for another 3 months. As my internship at St. Paul Travelers continues, I will be looking [...]

I am still not ready to gather all my thoughts about Israel and put them down here. Right now, I need to get back into the swing of work, and sort some stuff out. But, I am planning on doing an activism program with my old USY chapter (high school Jewish youth group), while I [...]

So I just returned from 16 UNBELIEVABLE days in Israel. Along with my best friend, Yaniv, and 37 other participants, I left JFK Int’l airport on August 1st, for my second venture to the Jewish Homeland. The program I went on, Hasbara Fellowships, is an pro-Israel advocacy training trip. Hasbara Fellowships, focuses on training students [...]

Sometimes things change unexpectedly, and you just have to adjust to these changes. Well, St. Paul Travelers (my employer) decided to begin blocking access to SpyMac, where I began blogging about one month ago to pass time during the slow days at work. No more could I update my blog there from work, or could [...]

So I get a phone call from my brother-in-law yesterday, telling me to check my email. I go to my computer and follow this link, http://www3.metrowestdailynews.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=72684 . When I open it, I never expect to see what is before my eyes. Ian Tuffs, my sister’s ex-housemate in Waltham, MA gets arrested for sexual assault. He [...]

So it has been a full week now that my town has been very confused. Rumors have flown about two kids that I graduated with OD’ing on cocaine or heroin (depending on who tells the story). The word in town was that they both were in comas, and one made it, while the other passed [...]

At least that’s what I tell myself. It has been a week since I last updated my wonderous blog, so I got some things to say.Left, right, centrist, liberal, conservative; what the f*** am I. Everyday I fight with my beliefs about politics, the gov’t, etc. On one issue I am a staunch liberal(abortion), on [...]

How do people do it? Wake up in the AM, run to work, and they are alert right way. It takes me until at least 9:00 to wake up, later if it is a really slow day. I think I need instant stimulation at work, or I just fall asleep. 7:30 AM I get in, [...]

Monday afternoon, 13:19, wait was that army time? Man, I spend so much time at work, it consumes me. I start picking up my cell phone, thinking I am at work. “NCC, this AJ.” The other end of the line is just quietly confused. Only four weeks on the job and the day to day [...]