classes - I took two classes this summer, one during each of the two summer sessions. During the first session I took Leadership & Team Building. Yes, I am paying $3,500/class to take classes like "Leadership & Team Building". Actually the class wasn't too bad and I got to meet a lot of the part-time MBA students who I haven't really mixed with yet. In less than 24 hours I will be done with the second class, Finance. It's a required class; if it wasn't I wouldn't be taking it. The professor has been pretty good and I've at least been able to find patterns and plug in so I'm going into tomorrow night's final with an A. It will be interesting to see what happens after the final - bond valuation and options are really blowing my mind. I am really glad that I took Finance on it's own, without juggling three other classes and a full semester's worth of obligations. I have just seven classes left of my program - 4 in the fall and 3 in the spring - and I'm done.
internship - I survived an unpaid, non-credit internship for 10 weeks. It was awful; a really bad fit all around. I did learn a couple of things, mainly what I don't want to do with my life, which sometimes can be as helpful as learning what you do want to do. I don't want to work for a company where I have to manage the needs of multiple clients. I'd rather work for one client, a client in whom I really believe, rather than a bunch of clients who I only have to care about while they're still paying their bills. I have two interviews this week for two companies for a fall credit internship, both of which I'm really interested in. *fingers crossed*
volunteering - After I quit my internship I started volunteering two shifts/week at the local food bank. I am so happy I am doing this - I really love the work. I've been thinking about volunteering all year and I've made a million excuses. Once I was freed from my miserable internship I suddenly didn't have any more excuses. I love it. Love, love, love it. I haul boxes, stuff food bags for needy seniors and kids and sort donated food. I work my ass off when I'm there and leave feeling like I *worked*. I've learned that there are actually very few staffed employees at this food bank and without their army of volunteers they can't feed the millions of hungry in the area. Lately we've been doing a lot of sorting of meat. That's right, this nearly 20-year strong vegetarian is hauling around boxes of meat, looking for recalled ground turkey. I wear gloves. And take a very long shower as soon as I get home.
instagram - This is so not me, but I've become obsessed with an iPhone (Mac only) app called Instagram. It's a photo editing/sharing app and it's so much fun. I love looking at other people's pics and playing with my own. I am a total hack but it's making me look at things a little more closely than I normally do. I like noticing my surroundings more, even if I don't always take the pic. I noticed this picture on a fence pole and enhanced it slightly with Instagram. If you know story of my real name, I hope you'll find this as amusing as I do!
yoga - I've found a really good groove with yoga this summer. Earlier in the summer a friend and I went to a few outdoor yoga classes which was really awesome. There is something really amazing about feeling the breeze on your skin and the sun on your face while you're working on crow pose. I've found that two yoga classes a week is the perfect number to keep me balanced, pun intended.food - Turns out that I can't really handle eating xanthan gum or guar gum, two gums that are commonly found in gluten-free baking to help bind the gluten-free flours together. Let's just say after some at home cooking experimentation that my body and stomach are better off without them. Thank god I like vegetables. My latest obsession is green curry rice noodle soup with broccoli and tofu. I love this soup and have had it daily for the past two weeks! My diet is so healthy it makes me sick. Sometimes I just want a Kit-Kat. Or a dozen Kit-Kats.
sewing - I finished my two quilts for Project Linus and have just started a couple of other small projects. In the next two weeks I'm going to learn how to make an a-line skirt, a pair of pajama pants and a square for a quilt at Gather Here. I can't wait! And after learning to knit last month, I am about half-way through my first scarf. (pic by Instagram)
The West Wing - I don't watch a lot of tv. I either have ADD and lose patience too quickly or there's nothing on to watch. Did I mention I don't have cable so I have like 3 channels and haven't a clue as to what's on? Last fall I started receiving The West Wing on Netflix. I thought watching a 42 minute tv program might be good downtime from school and 42 minutes wasn't as big a time commitment as a 90 minute movie. It's taken me nearly a year to get through 5 1/2 season. It's really really good!! I don't want to be one of those jerks that gets all of their information from tv but I have to say watching the West Wing has been one huge eye opening experience on how the government works (or doesn't work). I should not be so hasty to criticize our government for not moving fast enough on issues that I care about.Harry Potter on cd - Confession: I haven't seen any of the Harry Potter movies. None. I've read all of the books and loved them. But I imagined them all in a very specific way and didn't want to see my version get ruined by someone else's vision. I checked out Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone on cd from the library and it is fantastic!! I forgot how wonderful the first Harry Potter book is and how delightful it was to learn about Hogwarts and all of the magic along with Harry. I hardly drive anymore - in fact, I only put 7,417 miles on my car in the last year - but I'm finding myself driving an extra block or two just to hear a few more minutes.
I know I'm missing a lot of news, but honestly, I can't think what it might be. I'm in a good place. For sure, I'm looking forward to having my Finance final behind me and securing a fall internship, and I'm really looking forward to my two week break before the fall semester starts, but right now, in this moment, things are good.
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