today, I learned that most sugar isn't vegetarian :(
A week late, we went out to dinner for Nic's birthday. The main group planned to meet Yael and Mindy at the restaurant, but we surprisingly stepped on to the same train they were already on at Park Street.
We went to Fugaku, a Japanese restaurant in Brookline. L-R: Me, Nic (flyingfree42), Stef (3cardbrag), On-san (on_san), Moon-san, Yael, Mindy.
We were amused that the wait=staff were Chinese. Each of the waitresses wore a beautiful kimono; our's was a bright orange.
Mindy tried her sushi with a lot of wasabi on it while Yael stared at her incredulously. My food was delicious: ume-shiso (plum sauce and shiso leaf) maki, pine-tate (sweet potato with pineapple) maki, bananas with chocolate acting as the seaweed and mango tempura ice cream.
On-san decided to finish Moon-san's udon soup in one fell swoop.
The sign-up-itus bug has infected me again. My Environmental Issues professor dropped a note in her weekly email about a community farm in Waltham that is looking for an education intern to run their after-school education program. The more I read about the farm and the responsibilities of the internship, the more I realize that this fits my future career goals quite well. I know I need to find an internship in the near future, but I can't do one over the summer unless if it is paid, which is rare for environmental internships. I can get there via public transportation, but I wonder whether I'd be able to arrive early enough and spend enough time there to please them. I looked over my schedule, which has classes running until 2pm or 3pm each day, and the last two classes of my day are the two around which my entire schedule is planned: La Republique and Conservation Biology. Since it is too late to pick up any other activities this semester, I keep promising myself that I'll do more next semester. I want to audit a class on revolutions in the third world, I want to work with the environmental club on campus, etc, but realistically, I am not going to have time for any of it, especially when my homework load will increase next semester, and it troubles me. I'd give almost anything to have more hours in my day.
During my Environmental Issues midterm today, I misused my time and spent over half of the period writing a scathing evalution of industrial agriculture, and it felt good.