He is looking off. Away. At something far. “Ocean,” he says.
It was a good weekend. Friday I left my internship early for an on-campus briefing about this spring's upcoming oral exams (ack), then stayed around for an event on public-private partnerships in the cocoa sector, and then a trivia night for my program.
Saturday I woke up early, made French toast with nutmeg, finished my briefing on financing structures for my SME study group, cleaned the apartment, made pumpkin chocolate chip oatmeal cookies while my friend E and I bitched about all the sexist bullshit among our classmates, and hosted a nice productive little study group for five people, which revealed I have, in fact, learned something about small and medium enterprise development this semester despite my professor's rambling, unstructured lectures.
Saturday night my friend K had a little party in her new apartment, and it was perfect. Queso and mulled wine, chill enough to talk, eight of my favorite people sitting in a circle. I got drunk for the first time in ages on three different pumpkin beers (this was my fav!) and laughed too much and felt so lucky. At one point I said, "my dream would be to work for X," the San Francisco IT/int'l development company I did my fellowship research on last year, and two of my friends immediately said "what? I know people who work there! I can introduce you!" MY NETWORK, BABY. Sometimes I can't believe I get to hang around such cool people all the time.
Sunday we biked over to 14th Street for brunch (biscuits!!) with a bunch of people from A's undergrad who all turned out to be doing impressive, fascinating things that also match up to what I want to do; got to pick people's brains about technology in Kenya, housing in India, etc etc, I love that somehow my life has careened me to a place where I get to intersect with these kind of people.
Yesterday afternoon we acquired, for the lovely price of free, armfuls of pine branches from the Christmas tree sale behind our apartment. Now they're in vases making the whole house smell like pine. This year our negotiation of interreligious December holiday traditions has landed on pine branches, white lights, menorah and a Hanukkah party with sweet potato latkes. It works.
Today is my LAST LONG MONDAY EVER, oh god, this has been a brutal semester. Don't ever take 10 straight hours of classes. Plus I just now got my list of classes for next semester and I got all my first choices. I may still tweak some things, but right now it's:
Technology, Science & Development (!!) + Education & Human Development + Microfinance + Emerging Issues in Africa
So interesting! A nice, cozy final semester. With so much free time to network, baby! My relevant Remember the Milk list is called Project Find Awesome Job.
One more week of both classes and interning, three more papers to turn in and I'm free. Suddenly my calendar is emptying of crappy obligations and filling up with fun social events. Just have to keep on swimming. Happy December.
Saturday I woke up early, made French toast with nutmeg, finished my briefing on financing structures for my SME study group, cleaned the apartment, made pumpkin chocolate chip oatmeal cookies while my friend E and I bitched about all the sexist bullshit among our classmates, and hosted a nice productive little study group for five people, which revealed I have, in fact, learned something about small and medium enterprise development this semester despite my professor's rambling, unstructured lectures.
Saturday night my friend K had a little party in her new apartment, and it was perfect. Queso and mulled wine, chill enough to talk, eight of my favorite people sitting in a circle. I got drunk for the first time in ages on three different pumpkin beers (this was my fav!) and laughed too much and felt so lucky. At one point I said, "my dream would be to work for X," the San Francisco IT/int'l development company I did my fellowship research on last year, and two of my friends immediately said "what? I know people who work there! I can introduce you!" MY NETWORK, BABY. Sometimes I can't believe I get to hang around such cool people all the time.
Sunday we biked over to 14th Street for brunch (biscuits!!) with a bunch of people from A's undergrad who all turned out to be doing impressive, fascinating things that also match up to what I want to do; got to pick people's brains about technology in Kenya, housing in India, etc etc, I love that somehow my life has careened me to a place where I get to intersect with these kind of people.
Yesterday afternoon we acquired, for the lovely price of free, armfuls of pine branches from the Christmas tree sale behind our apartment. Now they're in vases making the whole house smell like pine. This year our negotiation of interreligious December holiday traditions has landed on pine branches, white lights, menorah and a Hanukkah party with sweet potato latkes. It works.
Today is my LAST LONG MONDAY EVER, oh god, this has been a brutal semester. Don't ever take 10 straight hours of classes. Plus I just now got my list of classes for next semester and I got all my first choices. I may still tweak some things, but right now it's:
Technology, Science & Development (!!) + Education & Human Development + Microfinance + Emerging Issues in Africa
So interesting! A nice, cozy final semester. With so much free time to network, baby! My relevant Remember the Milk list is called Project Find Awesome Job.
One more week of both classes and interning, three more papers to turn in and I'm free. Suddenly my calendar is emptying of crappy obligations and filling up with fun social events. Just have to keep on swimming. Happy December.