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zana16So there are questions about China....
Okay. For a month this summer, meaning I won't be in San Antonio a lot. Sorry, folks. I may (depending upon the interview tomorrow) be teaching English in China. I'm also trying to get a Blumberg scholarship to stay some extra time in France cause that would just be cool. Like, people paying me to live in Paris in the summer. Remind me I said this when I start complaining about the heat. Flight back is August 13th. I don't know when HCA training starts (that's the interview tonight) so this could boil down to me in S.A. for two days before flying up to Western Mass. Yes, this would suck. For all involved. Which may mean I'll be around for a week late June/early July and will 1)teach my baby bro how to drive 2)move 21 years of accumulated stuff into my grandparents' trailer which will FINALLY be mine all mine--and the house is finally done so there will be an actual place for me to go to during this week. Not a "home" cause my stepmom is freaked out that I'm gonna try and move back in with them (yeah right, it's always been my dream to be pushed to homicide), but a sort of nonhome base. A good thing. Only China fucks all of that up. But still. China. Dude. Not paid, but whatever. China.
I hope they don't find out I'm working for an org that promotes democracy. Already they have to "approve" any teaching materials I might want to introduce. And they're providing internet access but on the other hand this is China, where the web is not free. I wonder if they're reading this? Freaky.
Wednesday after my internship I'm meeting up with a Smith alum for dinner. Scary in and of itself, not to mention that she lives in banlieu and I have to change metros three times just to get to La Defense where I can take the train to the station where she will pick me up.
Then Friday I have fieldtrip to the Louvre where we can be bored for hours by the preRenaissance. That afternoon I meet with my thesis advisor to discuss what the hell I'm going to do for my thirty-page thesis (in FRENCH) due mid-May.
Saturday I think I can sleep. Last Saturday I was at my internship, but I don't think I need to be there this Saturday.
I know I'm forgetting something, but it'll come to me several hours after it already happened, as usual.
And must read that damn book and write/prepare my presentation on it. Strangely, I am not stressed. Yet. Talk to me later. It helps that not everything is the same day, so I have the illusion of it being spread out.
And must plan for spring break. I have almost three weeks and a Eurail pass and no idea what to do, since the Africa trip fell through due to civil war in the Ivory Coast. Want to go to Prague but Eurail pass is not good for most of the countries I want to go to. Want to go to Istanbul but my dad, who is rather rational about things like this, said I probably shouldn't for the moment. Want to go to Syria and rational dad completely freaked out, so I decided that was out. Want to go to Amsterdam but have nobody there to get stoned with. Want to go to England but Eurail pass doesn't go there either. Italy is way too crowded what with Easter. Venice will have to wait for another time. The snow hasn't melted in Switzerland so I don't want to go there until the flowers bloom, cause all my memories of Switzerland are full of wildflowers. And trains. Am left with Germany and Spain and am planning on having a fucking great time, even if I don't know a person and will probably be traveling alone. Go me.
Hee hee. I get to complain about tiny little factors of why I can't go visit all these European countries for the moment, while the world looks on and seethes that they don't get to be in Europe at all.
Am very glad am in Europe for the moment. Could not stand to be at home where people actually believe in this stupid war. I get enraged enough just reading Newsweek's propaganda every Wednesday.
Life is decent for the moment. Three things wrong: 1) I'm constantly worried about my brother 2) there's this fucking war my fucking country is leading to fuck up the international order and 3) I have to do all these interviews and then China fucks up my plans anyways.
Am so very nervous about the interview tonight. Stomach is tied in knots. Very much want the job. China would be cool but I haven't invested as much in it.
Wow this is a long post. Will go now so that the exactly three people out there that read this thing will not kill me.
Okay. For a month this summer, meaning I won't be in San Antonio a lot. Sorry, folks. I may (depending upon the interview tomorrow) be teaching English in China. I'm also trying to get a Blumberg scholarship to stay some extra time in France cause that would just be cool. Like, people paying me to live in Paris in the summer. Remind me I said this when I start complaining about the heat. Flight back is August 13th. I don't know when HCA training starts (that's the interview tonight) so this could boil down to me in S.A. for two days before flying up to Western Mass. Yes, this would suck. For all involved. Which may mean I'll be around for a week late June/early July and will 1)teach my baby bro how to drive 2)move 21 years of accumulated stuff into my grandparents' trailer which will FINALLY be mine all mine--and the house is finally done so there will be an actual place for me to go to during this week. Not a "home" cause my stepmom is freaked out that I'm gonna try and move back in with them (yeah right, it's always been my dream to be pushed to homicide), but a sort of nonhome base. A good thing. Only China fucks all of that up. But still. China. Dude. Not paid, but whatever. China.
I hope they don't find out I'm working for an org that promotes democracy. Already they have to "approve" any teaching materials I might want to introduce. And they're providing internet access but on the other hand this is China, where the web is not free. I wonder if they're reading this? Freaky.
Wednesday after my internship I'm meeting up with a Smith alum for dinner. Scary in and of itself, not to mention that she lives in banlieu and I have to change metros three times just to get to La Defense where I can take the train to the station where she will pick me up.
Then Friday I have fieldtrip to the Louvre where we can be bored for hours by the preRenaissance. That afternoon I meet with my thesis advisor to discuss what the hell I'm going to do for my thirty-page thesis (in FRENCH) due mid-May.
Saturday I think I can sleep. Last Saturday I was at my internship, but I don't think I need to be there this Saturday.
I know I'm forgetting something, but it'll come to me several hours after it already happened, as usual.
And must read that damn book and write/prepare my presentation on it. Strangely, I am not stressed. Yet. Talk to me later. It helps that not everything is the same day, so I have the illusion of it being spread out.
And must plan for spring break. I have almost three weeks and a Eurail pass and no idea what to do, since the Africa trip fell through due to civil war in the Ivory Coast. Want to go to Prague but Eurail pass is not good for most of the countries I want to go to. Want to go to Istanbul but my dad, who is rather rational about things like this, said I probably shouldn't for the moment. Want to go to Syria and rational dad completely freaked out, so I decided that was out. Want to go to Amsterdam but have nobody there to get stoned with. Want to go to England but Eurail pass doesn't go there either. Italy is way too crowded what with Easter. Venice will have to wait for another time. The snow hasn't melted in Switzerland so I don't want to go there until the flowers bloom, cause all my memories of Switzerland are full of wildflowers. And trains. Am left with Germany and Spain and am planning on having a fucking great time, even if I don't know a person and will probably be traveling alone. Go me.
Hee hee. I get to complain about tiny little factors of why I can't go visit all these European countries for the moment, while the world looks on and seethes that they don't get to be in Europe at all.
Am very glad am in Europe for the moment. Could not stand to be at home where people actually believe in this stupid war. I get enraged enough just reading Newsweek's propaganda every Wednesday.
Life is decent for the moment. Three things wrong: 1) I'm constantly worried about my brother 2) there's this fucking war my fucking country is leading to fuck up the international order and 3) I have to do all these interviews and then China fucks up my plans anyways.
Am so very nervous about the interview tonight. Stomach is tied in knots. Very much want the job. China would be cool but I haven't invested as much in it.
Wow this is a long post. Will go now so that the exactly three people out there that read this thing will not kill me.
