"walking the dog"

It's been quite the week. Let's work through this backward so I don't miss a thing: Today I had a pretty successful day at work, simply crackin' away at some country reports I'm doing. I like how every project I have ends in "report": makes me feel important. I came home straight from work today so that I could get some reading and writing in as well as (hopefully) working on my Peace Corps application as well as doing some graduate school research. I was delayed on my walk to the Metro station, however: it's raining cats and dogs outside!

Yesterday I went out for sushi with Annika after work. It was potentially the last time I would see her before I left for Costa Rica. I think for both of us it's quite the shock to see summer slipping by so quickly.

Tuesday See-yin and I made a trip to Georgetown after work. She had never been and so I went with to show her around. Georgetown, for the most part, just makes me feel pretty poor but it was nice to walk around a different part of DC for a change. I think I have already developed this sense of nostalgia when I wander about. Mostly, I think it's because I know I'm leaving soon and I will be sad to go. On that note though, I am ready to be home to take a break from my break.

On Monday See-yin and I watched a movie called The Wackness. The highlighting line of the film was "you see the wackness when all I see is the dopeness". I had to think about it, but I actually understood what that meant. In other words, my movies are telling me to chillax.

This brings us to the weekend. My good friend Lauren flew all the way from Chicago to visit See-yin and I. On Friday See-yin and I took her out to see the monuments by moonlight. We also saw the movie, 500 Days of Summer. Currently, it's my favorite movie of all time. I won't tell you what the theme of this movie is, you'll just have to see it yourself.

On Saturday the three of us drove up to Baltimore to see the Inner Harbour there as well as Artscape, which happens to be America's largest free arts festival. It was very fun to see all of the artists' booths and we spent the day hopping from different food vendor to vendor getting free samples. Artscape also hosted a concert in which Cake, one of my favorite bands, played. And you know me, I weaseled my way pretty much to the front of the stage.

So that's where I leave off: it's been a week. I have I grown up any more? Probably not. I have I learned something new? Most definitely. Am I excited for next week? Always. Do I know what it brings? Psh. If I've learned anything from Margaret Atwood it's "why predict the future? We often cannot change it, so why suffer twice?" I'm starting to think Atwood can be grumpy. I'm going to say we cannot predict the future because everybody already knows I'm twice the fun then anyway.

New music: Fun.