some updates?

Since I left you, I have done the following things:

-- attended a Spanish wine tasting in which I got a bit tipsy and managed to retain nothing about the wine regions nor the grapes

-- saw Rock 'N Roll High school at The Music Box Theatre complete with a Q&A session with Principal Togar.  She mostly name dropped and dwelled on her Andy Warhol inner-posse days

-- packed approximately 4 boxes of odds and ends for the move

-- finished (almost, seriously, almost) my internship

-- got a 4.o GPA (which has not been achieved since first quarter 4th grade because we didn't have math, as all studies were geared towards the "Indian Fair," which was a (mostly)racist celebration of Native American culture. Technically, I got a 4.0 GPA sophomore year in high school, but only because AP courses were weighted, I got one B in something, probably math, perhaps spanish)

-- edited a manuscript in which the author used the phrase 'be recourse full,' when meaning 'be resourceful'

-- attended Rob's law school graduation, in which I was likely the most popular attendee, as evidenced by the waves received from the processing students

-- consoled a fired fellow employee 

-- watched the series finales of The Office and One Tree Hill. "I want to learn the dance and lyrics to Michael's 'Goodbye Toby'"

School is out for the term, but I still find myself hating Sunday nights. I have to tell myself it is temporary, yet I don't want to wish my life away. My internship is over in ever way except in name. I feel like I left a month ago, just kind of going through the motions. 

The job was going fine, easiest and highest paying. Friday was an awful day, just chock full of dealing with bureaucracy and incompetent people. I somehow got stuck with the task of printing out posters for people presenting at this conference. I know nothing about the subject matter, power point, or printing on the poster size printer, but I decided it couldn't be too hard. and it shouldn't have been, but everything that could have went wrong did and I found myself getting so angry that this job was stressing me out and making me want to cry and flip out at people....just not worth it.

So I'm dreading tomorrow because I have to deal with this poster snafu ... so lame, I deal with closer to life and death matters in my internship, yet that doesn't really stress me out at all. 

I got 2 grades back, both A's and I think I'm looking at 2 more for a straight A semester. Research might be a B+, which will be disappointing, but I'm honestly just glad the class is done. 

I've also been bumming today because of the ruling at the United Methodist General Conference. They basically voted to keep their exclusionary language. Obviously this was not unanimous, and there was a very vocal minority, but it felt so defeating. And the fact that our church is taking it....I honestly feel as though this is similar to churches in the 60's voting to exclude black members or clergy. I know this won't spread to our church, but to still be associated with such is disheartening. Here is a clip of the witness that took place after the vote. It is kind of long, but some pretty nice moments. 

I dog sat this weekend. I hadn't seen those dogs in a while. Apart from the extensive food preparations and giving insulin shots in the back of the dog's neck, it's a good gig. I also had access to the deluxe cable, but only caught bits and pieces of movies. I did watch 2 eps of the BBC's Robin Hood. The best however, where the two shows on Nat'l Geographic channel. The first about Amelia Aerheart and the theories surrounding her disappearance. I had no idea there was a plausible theory where she was kidnapped and killed by the Japanese army. The second was about two American girls from LA who agree to go on what they think is an all expense paid trip of a lifetime to Lima Peru (they pictured Rio in their minds), in exchange for bringing back 'a little cocaine.' Obviously the trip is a nightmare and obviously they get caught.

I feel guilty for not going home to see my mom on mother's day.

I am already panicked about the move in 3 weeks.