School Resumes

Spring Break is over now. It was a lot of fun staying with Taylor. I got a small amount of reading done for my classes, but that's better than nothing. We spent a day at the beach, and hung out with his friends and went to the park a few times. He still had school and work, so we didn't have full days to hang out, just sections of them. And going to Disneyland with my 2 cutest cousins was so much fun!!! I'll post pictures soon, but not yet. Too much else to do tonight. (and this next week in general)
1. I didn't get the Wolf Hollow baby animals internship either, so there's a bunch of applications I should be filling out for other internships. What do I do all summer if nothing comes through? Vegetate?
2. Something about Spring Break makes teachers pile on the work. I have 18 pages to write in the next week (5 on women's roles in gnosticism, 10 for my Death class, and 3 for Anthro). All that would not be so bad if I didn't have so much reading to do on top of it. I need to read a book and a half, and then find/read other sources for my Death paper. Maybe do an interview? Ugh. College this semester is so much harder.
3. This weekend is a 3 day weekend (for Cesar Chavez day, pretty much the only holiday we get off aside from MLK). I plan to spend Friday at the beach with Julia, her friend visiting from Wilamette, Abby and Dinah. Don't worry, that's my reading day. It's called multitasking. The other two days I'll be virtually chained to my desk writing page after page.

Wish me luck!

I can smell the sunshine!

Spring Break is so close! And much needed. I hope I can soak up just as much motivation as sunshine.

I finally heard back from the language program, and I didn't wind up getting it. It was a stretch, anyway. They got 4500 applicants for 500 positions. If I'm in Portland for the summer, I might want to take a beginning Arabic class, and that would put me in a smaller pool of applicants for next year.

Ellie, and her boyfriend Tucker, had their plans change so they came and visited me this weekend. It worked out fine, because I had very little homework. We watched Step Up 2 and Hairspray, and laid out in the sun on the lawn. We ate with some other kids from Wilson so Ellie could catch up with them. It was a good time. Too cold at the beach to warrant driving out there, and I didn't want to drive to Chinatown (downtown LA driving scares me!) so we stayed in Claremont the whole time. And yesterday they left to drive up to the Bay area to visit some other friends.

My Spring Break starts Friday the 13th. Hopefully that's not unlucky! I really need a good long break from work (but I'll probably wind up doing a bunch over break).

Tick-Tock

I'm not normally this impatient, but it has been so long since turning in my CLS application, and now that it's finally March and almost there... I can't take it anymore. And the worst part is that it's so competitive I've probably waited all this time, and built up all this anticipation for nothing.
I'd like to know what I'm doing for the summer. I'd like to know how many more applications I need to fill out. I abandoned the Teach Breakthroughs idea, because, well. No good reason I guess. If it's going to be that stressful, I'd rather it be in Portland.
PSU's website has a great list of newspaper internships available in Portland, unfortunately application deadlines are not listed anywhere. I find that strange for a business that thrives on deadlines. And I have so little actual experience in that direction. I have the photo portfolio I built up for my AP, but studio work I don't have much experience with. Or lighting. Maybe next year when I've taken more photo classes here, and have a professor I can ask for advice. Though next summer I can finally apply for a whole new range of scholarships... most don't want freshman.
It's almost Spring Break! Just one more week of school...
And for the first weekend, Ellie is coming to visit me! She and her boyfriend Tucker are roadtripping to Cali to spend time at the beach and they're going to hang out with me for a couple of days before heading home. We'll have to trip around a bit outside of Claremont, since most of the school will be gone, and therefore I have nothing interesting to show them. Pity. Maybe we'll go spend some time in the parks nearby. Joshua Tree isn't too far... We'll see. Whatever it is, it'll have to be cheap!

Murder Mystery!

Last Friday night we had a Murder Mystery party, which was fun and silly. (I didn't do it, I swear!)

I dislike title-ing

Friday afternoon/evening, Julia and I went to Old Town Pasadena on another "new student" organized trip. We walked around and did a little shopping, got cupcakes and good sushi, and had a lot of fun. It was nice to be outside of Claremont for the weekend.
On Saturday I went to the LA County Museum of Art (LACMA) with Taylor, my friend Dinah, and her new friend Daniel. The Museum had a Vanity Fair portraits exhibit going on which I've been wanting to see for awhile. I'm glad I finally got there, and I really enjoyed the exhibit. But it was the last weekend and the museum was packed. After LACMA we went to get food and wound up in this Bridgeport type mall in the middle of LA, with a "Farmer's Market" attached, which was really more like a larger, permanent version of the food court at Saturday Market in Portland. It was a good, strange find. But also very busy.
Now I'm just trying to get ahead of my homework for the week. It's super warm today, somewhere in the 80's, but it's supposed to go back to raining tomorrow. The weather here is really bipolar at the moment.