Desperate for Summer
I'm so ready to get out of here. Knowing that I only have a little more than 5 weeks left to enjoy New York is making me squirm. I'm trying to fit in all sorts of stuff before I take off for the summer, but we'll see how that goes. I noticed that things are starting to come full-circle. I went out with Kaitlyn on Saturday to the same cafe that I went to on my second night here in Manhattan when I visited last year around this time. Just knowing that is weird enough. I'm doing a lot of things that I haven't done since the beginning - eating some of the same food, going to some of the same places, wearing some of the same clothes. Not sure what all this means, but I'm OK with that.
What I'm also kind of OK with is that fact that I have a "book." That's right, I have graduated to having a "book." I am so busy lately that when people ask me if I want to do something, I have to check my "book" to see if I'm available. This has a lot to do with finals coming up, and my promotion at work to Assistant Tour Director and Student Recruitment Liaison. I'm helping a lot with "Accepted Students Day," which is, of course, the same event that I was here for this time last year!! I can't believe how quickly time flies when you're living your life. All this is so hard for me to fathom, and it still quite literally feels like yesterday!
While I'm waiting for little pockets of free time and living life at the admissions office, I'm also waiting on the all-important financial aid and housing information which will hopefully be forthcoming. I dream of having my own shit (ahem, apartment) but that will have to wait until I put in the time and effort into looking for one, and until I can find some place that's cheap enough to either live in by myself or live with people that I can get along with not just partially. I can't help but be slightly envious of a friend of mine who just landed a studio in Brooklyn for $500 a month. Whatever I get off campus will be cheaper than where I'll be living on campus, but there's something to be said for not worrying about rent every month. What it comes down to (just like nearly everything else) is that I need to just buckle down and handle my business because the days of other people taking care of me are over.
What's almost over is this season of "Desperate Housewives," which I swear from week to week just gets better and better. And today I read that Emmy(R)-nominated (or did she win some?) actress Alfre Woodard will be joining the cast at the end of this season, and the beginning of next. Perhaps this will solve a token problem, but it may otherwise just add more greatness to an already great show.
We'll have to "wait and see what happens," I guess.
And so will I when it comes to the rest of my life.
P.S. John Edwards will be speaking at my school on Thursday, and I'm going to see him. Not because I like him (in fact, I rather loathe him), but because it's all part of the "Fairness Conference" from the School for Social Research, which will probably be similar to the White Privilege Conference I went to back in February. I hope they have free wine there, too...