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 i’ve wanted to do the very moment i started college. anyway, this has been on my mind a lot lately, since i’m doing my three interviews at the moment.
- mitt romney’s debate jujitsu and simply inexcusable anti-immigrant accusations during a really entertaining republican debate
- finding summer jobs. been applying to certain things that sound interesting. it’s rough though. i just talked to people who said they’ve applied to 60 different opportunities to come out with two things, and others who are still waiting to get past the second round i-banking interviews, and still more people who have yet to get first rounds. i haven’t applied to nearly as many things, so i guess i’m learning that i need to cast a wider net. sometimes this job hunt can be extremely disheartening. i’d really love to have a really meaningful, productive summer though, something exciting and fast-paced and challenging…… just like everyone else here.
- creating a dinner relationship with my french prof from last semester, who is just a really nice woman and kind of hilarious outside of class. had dinner with last semester’s french class a few nights ago, and it made me realize that i only have 1 1/2 years left here, why NOT invite professors to dinner and such. they’re people too. and people need to eat, right?
- yesterday evan told me that i absolutely have to rekindle my interest in painting and drawing because i’m lucky to have those skills at all. he told me that the only reason i don’t make time for it is because of this mindset here that every hour of the day should be spent toward schoolwork or developing marketable skills. yep, it’s true that it’s easy to become pretty drone-like here, and absolutely, i think i really should put the right side of my noggin into practice again. i’m always saying this but maybe i should do more to make this happen.
- a no-sew fleece blanket that i made for evan’s belated christmas present, after waiting for joann.com to take nearly 3 weeks to ship me fabric. nonetheless, very proud of this idea.
