As winter break comes to an end, I find myself thinking what I have accomplished. I had a plan for myself before break even started -
1. find a summer internship
2. work out everyday
3. read lots of books
4. make new mixed cds
5. enjoy time with my parents and other various family
6. learn a new hobby
7. sleep a LOT
So here is what happened:
1. I decided that I do not want to go to law school anymore. Yeah, I change my mind a lot - deal with it. I want to change my English option to "Professional Writing" as I feel that it will benefit me more in life, so I will do that when I get back to school. I am still a double major with Communication, which has worked to my benefit over break. INTERNSHIPS - yes. So I started by applying for various law firms at home, but two weeks into doing that, with NO call backs, I said forget that and started on a new path - to follow my comm major and see where it would take me. Well, it has done me proud. I applied for various internships in Richmond: Special Olympics PR/Marketing Intern, The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Intern, Richmond Kickers PR Intern, CRT/tanako Intern -- then I decided to try my luck by applying to be an intern for the White House this summer, I didn't even send in half of the application, whatever. BUT, here is where it gets good.
I got three callbacks - 1. CRT/tanako, Special Olympics and -drumroll- the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, where I would be working on the Encyclopedia of Life project. YEAH. Pretty awesome if I do say so myself. I had a phone interview witht the Smithsonian and the woman who is heading up the EOL project (go to eol.org and check it out) and it went very, VERY well. So I got an email two days later telling me I got the position. I am pretty proud of myself. Now I have to figure out where I am going to live and that will seal the deal. We have good family friends in Springfield so I think I can live with them, we'll see. Anyone want to offer up a room? I will pay. The best part about this is that I did this all by myself, I found the internship, I applied, I had a successful interview and I landed the job. I am going to have, basically, a REAL job this summer. Unpaid - of course. Still, it's fun. I get to wear suits and ride the metro and walk across the "lawn" everyday and see the Washington Monument everyday and then walk up the thousand steps to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, change into my heels, and see big taxidermied elephants every morning as I walk in. How much better does it get? I think it is pretty awesome. I will be working with scientists and researchers to help in the creation of EOL -- I am too excited for words. Or not, since I wrote all of this.
2. Work out everyday -- success. I have, once again, become addicted to the gym. It also helped to have good looking guys in there everyday. Can we say motivation?
3. Read lots of books -- final count: 7. I still have 8 that I want to read/currently own. I love books. I became a member of Barnes and Noble over break - thanks to a $25 gift card that I receieved for Christmas. Perfection.
4. Make lots of mixed cds -- 2. Lame, I know. I don't have my music contributors at home (Rachel and Yen) which makes it difficult for new music when I don't want to buy it. BUT HEY - two is more than I had before. Car ride to Blacksburg, here I come.
5. Enjoy time with my parents/family -- success. It's tough being an only child sometimes because when I come home all of the attention is on me. It's nice sometimes, but, being an ISTJ, I like my time alone. I love my parents, don't get me wrong, but when they went back to work, it was nice to have some alone time. My mom and I bond over our love of many things, including: shopping, cooking, baking, interior decorating, Christmas, my cat, and home goods. Therefore, for Christmas, she began the HUGE pile of apartment "stuff" for me for next year. Kitchen supplies, towels, bowls, silverware, placemats, cooking utensils, dining room table, chairs, lamps, etc. It was great. We also went shopping together too many times and spent too much money, oh it's good to be home. My dad and I are a completely different story. We share fewer and dramatically different bonds: my cat, the outdoors, cars, Virginia Tech, and football. Oh winter break, the season of bowl games! My dad is always in a pool with his golfing and work buddies for the bowl games. He was on a roll this year, winning the upset games at the beginning, with a 15 out of 16 game winning streak. Him and I have some friendly competition with bowl games -- this is where I play the "son he never had" role, spending time with him watching football on any given day. He had some shady picks towards the end, like NOT picking Penn state, Ohio State, Florida -- dumb. All the while fun for me, as I won and he didn't. We also had some cute father/daughter lunch outings over break...watching football. Do you see a trend?
6. Learn a new hobby -- success x 2. I am a grandma and decided that I wanted to learn how to knit. It took about 2 days but I had the beginning of a maroon scarf. I want to make it maroon and orange but I am scared to add a new color yarn, so I will save that for my next scarf. For now, it's just maroon and will fit around my cat as of right now, so I have to keep working on it. Also, I started this blog. Hobbies times 2.
7. Sleep a lot -- VERY successful. I would go to bed around 11 or so pretty much every night, and then wake up around 9:30 or 10 everyday. Perfection. Basically my day went like this:
9:30-10 am - wake up
11 - 1 pm - gym
shower
lunch
shop/knit/read
dinner
knit/read/tv
bed
It was exactly what a break should be. But now I am ready to get back to school, and be productive again. The most scholarly place I saw all break was Barnes and Noble, so it's time to get back to reality. Also, I miss everyone. Countdown to Blacksburg, and recruitment, 4 days.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
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