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this summer, you guys, is going to be so, so rad. i'm visiting my sister in san francisco in three weeks (no, she still lives in san diego, but we decided to meet for a weekend in san francisco for a change. one of her good friends moved up there to be the sales VP for netflix and thus is totally loaded and lives on one whole floor of an old downtown mansion, mary-tyler-moore-style. and we are going to stay with her one night. behind the ghiradrelli chocolate factory, incidentally. the other night we're going to get a hotel room, so we can have some sisters alone time. also i'm getting into town a day before she is, so i get to spend a night hanging with my old ninth grade boyfriend, daniel, whom i have not seen in ages, and it will be fabulous.
the week i get back, i will turn 23 (so LOSTish!) and my fabulous kimber will fly down from seattle to help me celebrate. backyard campout party and schlitterbahn trip, yeahhh! kim times are the best times. in the two years since study abroad ended, we will have spend three of our four collective birthdays together. it's love.
then at the end of june, my rad 15 year old cousin is going to come spend a week with me. we're going to the midnight eclipse premier (really, who better to see it with than a 15-year-old?) and i get to do the hip-older-cousin thing, taking her to fun places and introducing her to new books and music and giving her things. basically for me this is just role reversal of my childhood, when i would go stay with my big sister and we would go shopping and weave friendship bracelets and stay up late watching movies that my parents wouldn't let me watch and talk about friends and boys and important things. i love those relationships.
then new orleans in august with jon for christy and christian's wedding in the french quarter. THAT is going to be a sweaty, sweaty good time. i have never been to NOLA and i'm really stoked about it. also, i love christy, and her wedding is going to be awesome. second lining and the red dress run, you guys.
last night i had dinner with dr b, my old thesis advisor. it was kind of really amazing. we went to the macaroni grill and talked for about 45 minutes before we even opened our menus. had giant glasses of chianti and just talked and talked, all together about 2 hours. i just have the biggest hugest crush on her; she's so smart and intuitive and elegant and wonderful...gush. and she is an economist to the bone, in the sense that she is intensely realistic, and makes no attempts to shoehorn reality into any kind of idealogy, she just observes things and considers reasons and is passionate about seeing the truth, in a very multifaceted sort of way. i don't know, i just think she's one of the most intelligent people i've ever had the pleasure of meeting. and for some reason she's taken the time to help me so much - first with my thesis, and now just by talking to me and taking an interest in my life. we'd been emailing back and forth about meeting up, and i said something in one of my emails about how i needed her advice on what to do with my life, so as soon as we were done with basic catch-up she kind of cut right to the chase asking me questions about what i thought i wanted to do. she really listens, and she wouldn't let me change the subject. anyway, she ended up clarifying a lot of things with me, and it was just very nice. she told me i don't have to decide anything about what i want to do yet, because when you start doing that you do close doors and i should listen to myself and just chill if i'm not ready. i'm gaining experience and contributing now with the jobs that i do have, and she said it sounds like i have really good friends and good things going on here and it's okay to value that. i told her about how whenever recent grads are "figuring it out" it's like you're supposed to be doing something adventurous and exciting; backpacking around the world or joining a service organization that will uproot you or something, and how i really don't want to do that right now. i'm TIRED. the prospect of traveling, really traveling, just exhausts me. i want to be near my friends and my family, i want to hole up in my new pretty creamsicle room with my cat and just read and write, i want to garden, i want to go to bed early and go to work and chip away at my debt, i just want to rest...and she got excited about that, and talked about how important it is to listen to yourself. and that i did so much exciting stuff in undergrad, and i shouldn't feel pressured to be doing that now - i should just collect myself and do what i need to do. it was so validating to hear this from someone i really respect and who has a lot of perspective. she also told me that she saw me going into management - that i think about things really clearly, and i see organization and purpose very well, and i get along with people. she also told me that i have the stats background to go further in research if i want, design and methodology stuff, MA in econ or whatever and i kind of came clean about how i don't think i have the discipline to do that and be happy. i LOVE the idea of econometrics, and i love knowing about it and understanding it, i love having the ability to talk about data and use it in my reasoning, i love that shit- in theory. but i DON'T love writing it or working out all the little details and kinks. she said the best managers are those who understand and respect the work being done by the phds in their department even though they themselves don't do that work. and that i should boss around phds. i really, really like this idea.
anyway, it was great.
LOST weekend wooo! when did i start caring again so much about this fucking show? i don't know. ab aeterno, i guess.
the week i get back, i will turn 23 (so LOSTish!) and my fabulous kimber will fly down from seattle to help me celebrate. backyard campout party and schlitterbahn trip, yeahhh! kim times are the best times. in the two years since study abroad ended, we will have spend three of our four collective birthdays together. it's love.
then at the end of june, my rad 15 year old cousin is going to come spend a week with me. we're going to the midnight eclipse premier (really, who better to see it with than a 15-year-old?) and i get to do the hip-older-cousin thing, taking her to fun places and introducing her to new books and music and giving her things. basically for me this is just role reversal of my childhood, when i would go stay with my big sister and we would go shopping and weave friendship bracelets and stay up late watching movies that my parents wouldn't let me watch and talk about friends and boys and important things. i love those relationships.
then new orleans in august with jon for christy and christian's wedding in the french quarter. THAT is going to be a sweaty, sweaty good time. i have never been to NOLA and i'm really stoked about it. also, i love christy, and her wedding is going to be awesome. second lining and the red dress run, you guys.
last night i had dinner with dr b, my old thesis advisor. it was kind of really amazing. we went to the macaroni grill and talked for about 45 minutes before we even opened our menus. had giant glasses of chianti and just talked and talked, all together about 2 hours. i just have the biggest hugest crush on her; she's so smart and intuitive and elegant and wonderful...gush. and she is an economist to the bone, in the sense that she is intensely realistic, and makes no attempts to shoehorn reality into any kind of idealogy, she just observes things and considers reasons and is passionate about seeing the truth, in a very multifaceted sort of way. i don't know, i just think she's one of the most intelligent people i've ever had the pleasure of meeting. and for some reason she's taken the time to help me so much - first with my thesis, and now just by talking to me and taking an interest in my life. we'd been emailing back and forth about meeting up, and i said something in one of my emails about how i needed her advice on what to do with my life, so as soon as we were done with basic catch-up she kind of cut right to the chase asking me questions about what i thought i wanted to do. she really listens, and she wouldn't let me change the subject. anyway, she ended up clarifying a lot of things with me, and it was just very nice. she told me i don't have to decide anything about what i want to do yet, because when you start doing that you do close doors and i should listen to myself and just chill if i'm not ready. i'm gaining experience and contributing now with the jobs that i do have, and she said it sounds like i have really good friends and good things going on here and it's okay to value that. i told her about how whenever recent grads are "figuring it out" it's like you're supposed to be doing something adventurous and exciting; backpacking around the world or joining a service organization that will uproot you or something, and how i really don't want to do that right now. i'm TIRED. the prospect of traveling, really traveling, just exhausts me. i want to be near my friends and my family, i want to hole up in my new pretty creamsicle room with my cat and just read and write, i want to garden, i want to go to bed early and go to work and chip away at my debt, i just want to rest...and she got excited about that, and talked about how important it is to listen to yourself. and that i did so much exciting stuff in undergrad, and i shouldn't feel pressured to be doing that now - i should just collect myself and do what i need to do. it was so validating to hear this from someone i really respect and who has a lot of perspective. she also told me that she saw me going into management - that i think about things really clearly, and i see organization and purpose very well, and i get along with people. she also told me that i have the stats background to go further in research if i want, design and methodology stuff, MA in econ or whatever and i kind of came clean about how i don't think i have the discipline to do that and be happy. i LOVE the idea of econometrics, and i love knowing about it and understanding it, i love having the ability to talk about data and use it in my reasoning, i love that shit- in theory. but i DON'T love writing it or working out all the little details and kinks. she said the best managers are those who understand and respect the work being done by the phds in their department even though they themselves don't do that work. and that i should boss around phds. i really, really like this idea.
anyway, it was great.
LOST weekend wooo! when did i start caring again so much about this fucking show? i don't know. ab aeterno, i guess.