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As far as I know, today is the last day of the I Am A Super Woman blogger search. I may not have to write again unless I get the job, a thought that makes me feel funny. I’ve been on the site for six weeks - I wanna stay there!

My latest post is about what I’ve learned from the experience. You’ll notice I left out “Keep the price tags on your fancy ball gown so you can return that thing and buy a new iPhone.”

Here’s an excerpt:

All I ever needed to know, I learned or reaffirmed through the IAAS blogger search.

If you want to get fancy, you could say blogging is a metaphor for life. And in the blog of life, we all just want to write with the best words and clip art. We want to be read and commented on without screwing up the HTML too badly.

I’ve blogged at IAAS for six weeks and two days now. Here are six things (one for each week) that the experience has taught me:

1) The journey of a thousand miles blog posts begins with a single step post.

It’s all about juggling high hopes/effort and realistic expectations. Don’t focus so much on the big picture that you miss the close-up pieces. Every day is an opportunity to grow and reflect. You need to take in the top 60 experience before you’re ready to handle being in the top three.

Read the rest at I Am A Super Woman. Give it five stars, leave a comment, listen to Lenny Kravitz!

And you still have a chance to tell the selection committee why I deserve the job. Just say I’m awesome. I’ll love you forever.

Today’s post on I Am A Super Woman is about forgoing the typical vacation in favor of voluntourism, a vacation where you go to another part of the world and volunteer.

I spent two of my college spring breaks volunteering in NYC, and it changed my life.

Would you be a voluntourist? Please read the post, rate, and comment.

It’s not too late to support me in my quest to be the head blogger at I Am A Super Woman.

Mosey on over there to check out/rate/and comment on my latest entries:

A profile of everyday Super Women, including April, a friend who works at one of the few clinics in Texas that provides abortions and full reproductive health services. (You’ve probably deduced by now that I’m pro-woman and pro-choice. I’m so proud of April. I think she’s doing an important thing, and I know everyone at her workplace deals with a lot of unnecessary craziness).

In honor of Father’s Day, I asked random men in NYC what advice they’d give their daughters. Awww!

At I Am A Super Woman, we believe that every woman is a Super Woman.

Every woman.

Whether she knows it or not.

Whether you recognize her name and face or not.

Whether she knows all the words to “Lady in Red” or not.

You know what to do: Rate. Comment. Conquer.

Please?

My latest batch of blog posts:

Free skincare products — the good stuff! Cheap birth control, music, and magazines. These are a few of my favorite deals. Tell me about yours.

Would you wear washable, recyclable pads and menstrual cups in the name of being green? Or is that too extreme icky treehugger for you?

I interviewed the inspiring Tammy Tibbetts of She’s the First, an media campaign that supports girls’ education in developing countries. A wonderful cause with such smart women behind it!

I thought about calling this blog post “Rallying the troops,” but then I had to cringe.

Here’s the deal: I’m in my final full week of trying to get the head blogger job at I Am A Super Woman. I’ve driven those closest to me absolutely crazy. I spend a lot of time thinking about this job that I want. And what if I don’t get what I want? And oh crap, what am I going to blog today?!

It’s crazy-making.

Everyone is getting tired, I know. I’m one of them.

But if you could support me a little while longer, I’d really appreciate it. I need the help. I’m blogging for the site everyday with very little feedback and a lot of pressure. I know I’m doing it to myself, but I can’t stop.

Please read the posts - I try to make them thought-provoking. Rate the posts. And leave comments! Like I said, I try to keep it interesting, but I’m being given categories to blog about. Here’s a taste of some recent topics:

I own a bajillion-dollar juicer, but bought a used cheese grater. When do you scrimp? When do you splurge?

Interracial marriage was once illegal, but a couple called the Lovings changed that. What’s the next civil rights frontier?

The BP oil spill is tragic, disgusting, and funny? Leroy Stick finds the humor and makes a difference with Twitter. What can you do?

Career advice from Lady Gaga. Does not involve hot pants.

Amazing DIY projects that are way better than that macaroni necklace you made your mom back in second grade.

Are these the weirdest shoes you’ve ever seen or what? Vibram Five Fingers, you intrigue me.