February 2012
26 posts
dreary mood
i don’t really know what it is about today, i really can’t quite place it… i just don’t feel very good. also feeling very low-energy.
!!!
i just won a $5750 fellowship to conduct a research project in vietnam and france this summer!
secret societies
evan is going to his second secret society interview “dressed to impress” in a toga.
it’s 29 degrees outside.
edit; my brother is trailing along some distance, armed with evan’s jacket and a supply of safety pins should evan’s nips get cold.
past present future
past
- on monday, i helped the pizza men make homemade pizzas for the saac meeting and they delivered them on time. on the other hand, a certain saac chair was definitely not on time. 1 pizza men, 0 saac board. (this is an inside joke.)
- went out for dinner at zaroka with evan and g31 for his birthday/valentine’s day and ordered an exorbitant amount of delicious indian food in about...
beauvoir
i also want to follow up on the photo post of simone de beauvoir. i think i’m just very absorbed right now in her writing. i’m reading two of her books at the moment, one called mémoires d’une jeune fille rangée which is her autobiography, the other is l’amérique au jour le jour, her account of her four months spent in the united states.
actually i used to kind of...
couchsurfing ens-ers
i just found about half of the french l1-l5 professors from the yale/ens exchange on couchsurfing.
and they all have open couches!
awesome job opportunities our undergraduate...
recently been frequenting the yale ucs job listings. some of the stuff on there is really just funny and/or awesome. here are my favorites:
shark education internship program, with oceans research in south africa
corporate intern, with build-a-bear workshop in st. louis
intern: sustainable supply, with mcdonald’s corporation in oak brook, il
project assistant, with mediterranean assoc...
incompetent leadership
something that irks me considerably is incompetent leadership. i’m talking about people who don’t step up to the roles that they themselves have signed up for and then leave the workload on the other member(s) of the team. i mean those who took on the role for the name, to put the name on their resumes and then later claim the hard work of others as their own. people who...
short-form updates
saac drama with elimination of ski trip and plots to prove to new board that the NE does actually have ski-able slopes despite warm weather
pizza men/legends this week chastised for pushing meetings too long
brother coming to visit me in 10 days
selling cookies to drunk people outside toad’s for nepal $$$
interviews galore is making me antsy
boston or new hampshire this weekend?
...
bro
also some awesome news!
my brother is coming to visit me during his long weekend from feb 17 - 21!
he hasn’t been here since he stayed around to help me move in!
this is going to be wonderful!
“i love saac.”
inspiring x 3
things i was inspired by today:
visiting the beinecke for the first time today to look at the katherine dreier archives. leafing through each cardboard box of tattered documents, photo negatives, personal letters, scrapbooks, notebooks, and sketchbooks really made me feel like i had trespassed into a stranger’s attic and started sifting through her private affairs. with a guilty...
January 2012
28 posts
“Craft Beer Sales Representative
Description:
Craft Beer Guild Distributing...”
– don’t get caught in the ol’ consulting/i-banking rut! check out yale ucs for great opportunities in rapidly emerging markets like this one.
(just don’t drink and drive)
booboos.
now i’m usually pretty chill, but the one thing that still psyches me out every single time is a vaccination. thankfully, i only got four of them today.
i’m no good at shots, but at least i don’t bite strangers in defense anymore, which i think is an improvement. nowadays, at least i try to look at a wall as to not get so queasy.
what i mean by saying shots still psyche...
on my mind
chocolate-covered madeleines and the 70+ i have made in the last few days. i think i’m obsessed with the delicious spongey goodness
froco-dom. applying to become a froco. interviewing to become a froco. becoming a froco. i would absolutely love to become a froco, to have freshman babies to make desserts for and care about and help find their way at yale. it’s something...
dr turin on nepal
http://markturin.commons.yale.edu/
^ this man came to talk to our reach out group today. i have right now written in my notebook the word “BRILLIANT” in all caps under his name.
i was blown away by his perceptiveness, vast knowledge, and eloquence as a researcher of the himalayan region, his fluent nepali, and especially his deadpan british wit. he was so inspiring, i...
Watchnewsweek:
Whose turn is it? It’s Mitt’s turn!
news
here is a goal of mine this semester:
i would like to follow the news more rigorously than i had previously.
“ugh, you’re obsessed with paris! you don’t care what you do as long...”
– nerdy quote from ex-ds-er evan
highs and lows of the week
highs:
finally finished and turned in my fellowship application, the results of which i hardly care about anymore because i’m so ecstatic that it’s finally out of my hands so i can actually focus on my life.
turned in my schedule today. taking a pretty round five classes, mostly seminars. something i’m happy about is that i scheduled this semester so i’ve nothing on...
new york and other things
just talked to devin, and she is returning to a2 today, and has been rapidly recovering it seems, so this is the best news.
things are okay now with evan. it’s kind of hard for me to be mad at people.
went to new york to see a broadway show, chicago, which was alright. i wish they had done more to break the fourth wall. the set was pretty non-existent, so it was really necessary to...
seminars
really bummed about not getting into one of the seminars i was really counting on. maybe i shouldn’t dramatize the situation, but this is truly the end of my life. okay, but seriously, what do you do when you need the seminars to finish your major in time to graduate and they cap the class at 11? and when every other class in your field of study seems to meet at the same time as some...
this was an incredibly difficult conversation to...
and i still feel awful about it, awful in general.
i’m sorry things had to work out this way. i hate creating problems, but sometimes you do what you have to do. but i just don’t understand why i still feel guilty when i should feel righteous.
i have regrets.
up in the air
i am recalling these memories as i sit in an airplane.
let me tell that i’m grateful to be on this plane, because i woke up (at 4:40 am for my 9:25 am flight, because i’m always paranoid something will go wrong, so i always leave myself more-than-enough time, even if it means i have to wait a long time browsing duty-free shops at the airport before boarding). anyway, it’s good that i did get up...
katja and the cocaine story
as it turns out, katja, the german friend of emy’s who had confided in me her suspicion of emy’s cocaine use and sexual exploitation, has asperger’s syndrome. so, she has a very difficult time dealing with stressful daily events, such as glasses breaking on the floor or too many people talking on the metro. i should have picked up on this more while we were in the cafe and a busboy accidentally...
my last day in paris
speaking of hanging out with emy and luciana, i spent my last evening going to a gay bar in the marais and drinking planteurs with the two and some of their friends, ophélie, marie, and paolo again. paolo is really one of my favorites because he’s just such a laid-back brazilian guy who just likes to dance and party and drink; he has something funny to say about everything, and we were...
the day before the last (thursday)
the day before the last day, i had planned a whole day to visit things that i should have visited before but didn’t manage to.
don’t talk to me about the catacombs, i know that everyone and their mom would suggest the catacombs but for whatever reason that doesn’t in the least pique my interest and i’m not quite sure why. during all my four times to paris, i have not visited the catacombs,...
wednesday, or the burglary story
wednesday was the day that emy was nearly robbed, which i had written about previously.
after leaving her place and booking the hostel, i went back into town again on foot from montmartre in order to check out a bit of the 18e and to look for food, but not for very long because it was already 4 by the time i got to the hostel, we were just both so tired that we woke up at about 12 noon and the...
tuesday
tuesday, emy had a dentist appointment at 8am, so i had to wake up around 7 with her because when you couchsurf you really are no longer on your own schedule. in winter in paris it’s still dark at 7am in the morning and really doesn’t light up until after 8am.
i spent my morning exploring the area near république and nation, starting in charonne, where luciana lives. i had a croissant in the...