life is good

I’d just like to note that the following is not the most encouraging horoscope to find waiting in your inbox during midterms/applications hell week:

“Your work schedule or study program may have fallen apart already, and now it could even grind to a halt. With Mercury backed up into futuristic Aquarius, it may be best to stop pushing yourself forward. Accept that you may have missed something important. You’ll know what it is once you have it and then you can put the pieces back together the right way.”

maybe i should just show my professors this and reschedule slash skip my midterms. how are they gonna mess with astrology?

ok so a quick little postling b/c i just put in a solid 8 and a half minutes of econ studying and i deserve a break.

my friends are in Cuba. i didn’t know til last week, b/c i thought that they still lived next door to me but i finally asked and turns out they’re in cuba. M’s also in Cuba - probably in the same place. i’m jealous, but also realize that i can’t just perpetually leave the country.

anyway. so i don’t have much else to say. perhaps b/c i’ve become mildly monastic lately. i had 3 glasses of champagne on friday night in celebration of a belated valentine’s day and was hungover til saturday around 8pm.

i decided to double major, b/c i was anyway accidentally so why not just declare it and have it on my transcript. and i’m also trying to do this thesis on microfinance, and it’s actual work. you guys really don’t want to hear me whine about it, but it’s taking up time and effort that could be devotedto laying.

my NY friends are all having fantastic times in their respective countries. i’m pretty much jealous of all of them right now, but at the same time quite happy to be back in the States.

exciting updates of any kind are welcome as my world now revolves around economic development and i need someone exciting to live through. stories more exciting than dreaded hair perhaps (not that that update wasn’t both entirely necessary and amazing).

actually if my friends don’t come through, no worries, b/c i’ve got A’s stories. and that’s enough excitement for any
lgb. she’s dating 3 men, one of which is a married w/ children tattoo artist, one of which is a rich homosexual coke-head, and her body’s covered in gigantic lilies, except for the pin-up girl on her right thigh. BEAT THAT.

first of all, my hair is dreaded more than any of you have ever seen before. in a way it’s partially my fault, because i own neither conditioner nor a hairbrush, nor a regular practice of personal hygeine - anti-dreading materials. anyway. a suitemate suggested that i braid it before sleeping to prevent further dreading, but i can’t separate it into 3 separate sections, so this didn’t work out. it’s more matted than dreaded. anyway i think you get the picture.

also, i had an amazing past year, but i’m pretty much vetoed from leaving the US again. vetoed by the fact that i need to get a job and actually finish university and such, and also b/c i am being cruelly denied access to Mr P’s company’s frequent flier miles. so…i’m gonna hang out here for a while. apply to microfinance firms, international policy firms, and perhaps find an internship in NC and take a class or 2 over the summer.. not exactly the type of itinerary the Federal State Dept would disapprove of, but still quite exciting. data-entry. woohoo.

i joined a christian service group and traded them a little chunk of my soul in order for a free place to stay/trip for spring break. i’ll be sleeping in a sleeping bag (which i need to borrow from somewhere..) on a church floor and eating whatever foods church members are willing to give us. we’ll be working from 9-4, which especially after Haiti doesn’t seem that bad at all - plus we get a lunch break. it should be fun. some of the kids are weird, but hey i went to china and kids that go to china are really weird. anyway.

valentine’s day. i got Y a candle. a votive candle. i sprung for the matching holder. it was just b/c it was there at the grocery store and i was there at the grocery store and ian had been saying he wanted a candle. so i gave him the candle and a construction-paper-cut-out card, cancelled on dinner, and went on my way to class. later on my bed i found a rose, a basket full of..things, and a coco chanel madmoiselle perfume, which he re-bought b/c it got stolen the first time. spoiledspoiled stephanie. so i would love to say that it’s okay and i’m happy w/ the candle situation b/c there was thought and a 30-minute conversation w/ the meat man about that candle - he also really liked it, and said it was sufficiently masculine. anyway, it’s not so much okay and i’m buying him a nicer present. i tried to today but ended up just getting lost and missing my microfinance class. i love my microfinance class.

today’s the first time i’ve missed class so far this semester, so really i’m doing pretty well. and it was for a dr’s appt., as opposed to for a nap, so it was legit. i’m proud of myself so far this semester. i’ve traded the majority of my social life and a little bit of my soul for econ. and i kinda like it.

ironically now that i’m actually 21 and legal, i don’t really like drinking anymore. still like champagne and wine and such sometimes, but yea..i’ve only used my real id once so far and that was to buy alcohol for someone else. what’s left for me that’s minor and illegal? i guess i could try to rent a car in NY, b/c for that you have to be 25, but i don’t really want to rent a car in NY. hmm…

i’m going to dr’s a lot this week. it’s good i’m getting fixed and checked for parasites and thyroids and such. alright yea T just called from costa rica and i’m done w/ this post slash email.  that’s all the update for now.

Interested applicants should submit a resume, cover letter, writing sample, and completed application form, along with two letters of recommendation by Monday, March 12th, 2007.

and April 15th, 2007.

and March 3rd, 2007.

but not in that order.

oh and october 30th, 2006. woops.