a cup of tea and a night free...
The warm Earl Grey tea is perfect for this cool night in Davis; it seems as if I am all alone in this town tonight. The Memorial Day weekend has set in and this college community has embarked on the annual tradition of remembering those who have sacrificed by partaking in pilgrimage to various lakes and campsites for drunken debauchery. As much as I wish I could be participating this year, I can not. I have two papers due next week, and I have decided to try to stay home and get them wrapped up. So here I am, all alone in Davis, and I am not being very productive.
Hopefully I can use this weekend of solitude to my advantage. I am planning on trying to get myself back on schedule with working out every morning, and maybe I can get both of these papers knocked out.
These past few weeks have been interesting, very interesting indeed. I can't believe that the semester is over in two weeks time. This will be my last full-time quarter at Davis, I only have one more class to mop up fall quarter. Things have been clinched with my new job. I start work on June 7th for the Office of International Relations & Protocol for the Speaker of the State Assembly. I interned there last summer, and had a ton of fun. Not exactly the type of work that I want to do the rest of my life, but I am definitely going to complain with the type of experience I will get there. I am starting again as a paid intern until hopefully Sept when we get the new budget. It should be an something interesting to amuse myself with as I pay off some debt before moving to the next stage in my life, wherever that may leave.
I am actually walking in the graduation ceremony in the fall now. Me being the responsible student that I am, I forgot to register to walk in the June ceremony. Oh well, I will feel less shady about it anyway. I wasn't looking forward to walking and having to explain to people at the after festivities that I am not technically graduated. A positive externality of it though is that I will be able to write that Honor's Thesis that I have always wanted to do. I went to talk to the Prof. that is running in next year, and talked to her about it a bit. She seemed really nice, and I think that she liked my topic. I think that I may end up writing about the attempts of international relations by sub-federal governments (ie - States.) Should fit perfectly with my job, and I think it is a fairly under-researched area, so who knows, I may be able to actually come across something new and interesting.
Besides all of that craziness, there is a new special person in my life. We have been dating for about two weeks now, but that time doesn't seem to do it justice. I dunno what it is, but it seems like we have been together for a lot longer than that. Maybe it is that we hung out for a while before, but things just seem really amazing and comfortable. She has taken up a lot of my time the past few weeks, but in a good way. I haven't felt this happy with someone in a LONG time. She is someone who I can definitely see myself dating for a while. Everyday we hang out, she amazes me in new ways. She is out of town this weekend, down at some lake in So. Cal. She left this morning at 8 am, but I already miss her. She gets back on Monday morning, and I think I am going to do something special for her. Apparently, she has never received flowers from anyone before and she was excited for this summer cause her friend from work promised he would buy her some. Fuck that, like I am going to let my girlfriend have her first flowers be from someone else… even if it is her friend! I think I am going to head to the farmer's market back in Sac, and get her a potted Orchid.
I am at a really good point right now. Can't say that I have much to complain about. I am seeing a wonderful girl, I am living with a great friend next year, I actually have a job that is related to what I want to do when I graduate, and hopefully I will be taking a trip abroad in Dec.
Anyway… it is 11:45… time for me to get some reading done before I crash for the night.
Hopefully I can use this weekend of solitude to my advantage. I am planning on trying to get myself back on schedule with working out every morning, and maybe I can get both of these papers knocked out.
These past few weeks have been interesting, very interesting indeed. I can't believe that the semester is over in two weeks time. This will be my last full-time quarter at Davis, I only have one more class to mop up fall quarter. Things have been clinched with my new job. I start work on June 7th for the Office of International Relations & Protocol for the Speaker of the State Assembly. I interned there last summer, and had a ton of fun. Not exactly the type of work that I want to do the rest of my life, but I am definitely going to complain with the type of experience I will get there. I am starting again as a paid intern until hopefully Sept when we get the new budget. It should be an something interesting to amuse myself with as I pay off some debt before moving to the next stage in my life, wherever that may leave.
I am actually walking in the graduation ceremony in the fall now. Me being the responsible student that I am, I forgot to register to walk in the June ceremony. Oh well, I will feel less shady about it anyway. I wasn't looking forward to walking and having to explain to people at the after festivities that I am not technically graduated. A positive externality of it though is that I will be able to write that Honor's Thesis that I have always wanted to do. I went to talk to the Prof. that is running in next year, and talked to her about it a bit. She seemed really nice, and I think that she liked my topic. I think that I may end up writing about the attempts of international relations by sub-federal governments (ie - States.) Should fit perfectly with my job, and I think it is a fairly under-researched area, so who knows, I may be able to actually come across something new and interesting.
Besides all of that craziness, there is a new special person in my life. We have been dating for about two weeks now, but that time doesn't seem to do it justice. I dunno what it is, but it seems like we have been together for a lot longer than that. Maybe it is that we hung out for a while before, but things just seem really amazing and comfortable. She has taken up a lot of my time the past few weeks, but in a good way. I haven't felt this happy with someone in a LONG time. She is someone who I can definitely see myself dating for a while. Everyday we hang out, she amazes me in new ways. She is out of town this weekend, down at some lake in So. Cal. She left this morning at 8 am, but I already miss her. She gets back on Monday morning, and I think I am going to do something special for her. Apparently, she has never received flowers from anyone before and she was excited for this summer cause her friend from work promised he would buy her some. Fuck that, like I am going to let my girlfriend have her first flowers be from someone else… even if it is her friend! I think I am going to head to the farmer's market back in Sac, and get her a potted Orchid.
I am at a really good point right now. Can't say that I have much to complain about. I am seeing a wonderful girl, I am living with a great friend next year, I actually have a job that is related to what I want to do when I graduate, and hopefully I will be taking a trip abroad in Dec.
Anyway… it is 11:45… time for me to get some reading done before I crash for the night.