I really do enjoy blogging. Not really because i get to share my entire life on the internet, but because I can document my adventures and friends and family can follow along if they choose.
This summer has been crazier than other summers for some reason. It's been more like a school semester, with five classes, a play, and a job. The past few weeks have been particularly crazy to meet deadlines for scholarships, but now there's more deadlines for the beginning of august and then mid-august for the GMAT, and literally my entire life is on full-speed ahead, running into senior year.
Kyle's really excited to get back to school. We keep talking about social events and classes and life after college. he's excited, and I'm mostly freaking out. As soon as I hit my apartment at Trinity Commons (and we're talking hit as in run into, slam into, head first, diving in, no turning back), life is going to be business school deadlines, interviews for scholarships and school, plays, classes, a 25 page history research paper, choreography, throwing social events for friends, dancing, and spending every last second I can with the people I've met at duke that can't bear to part with just yet. Every time kyle says something about not being able to wait to get back to school, I wan't to scream off the top of the Washington Monument "I'M NOT READY!! CAN EVERYONE JUST STOP MOVING SO FAST? I'M NOT READY."
To be honest, I think I am ready, heh. I just don't want to be there yet. I don't want to be making decisions that are determining where I go after college because I don't to leave Duke just yet. I only had half of a junior year, after all. But regardless, yes, I've hit a comfort place. Little did I know that being at Duke I would eventually feel like I was on top of the world like I did in high school, not just a little fish in a big pond. I've found my place. I've found where I can excel and push myself. I've found how to make me just a little bit more the me I'm going to be. I want to keep learning and growing. I guess that's why I'm planning on heading into more school after I suppose.
Regardless, this summer feels like it's moving at 100 mph towards Duke. My internship is amazing, and I've been working hard and making legitimate decisions for these events called Portraits After 5. I finally got an entire proposal out to Mingle at the Museum last Thursday and felt pretty proud of seeing a glimpse of everything coming together. Though I do hope to do more in my last four weeks there.
My job at the gym has been so miserable that I've decided to starve myself a little more rather than work for the next three weeks to make another $180. Instead, I've gotten in the contact with the Office of Government Relations at the Smithsonian and am meeting with the Head of the department on Tuesday to create a pseudo internship for the next three weeks. Turns out they're way understaffed right now... hmmm....maybe they'll pay me too.
Then I've been re-learning stupid small shortcuts for math that I had totally forgotten while studying for the GMAT... like finding the smallest multiple of a whole bunch of large numbers by counting who has the largest number of prime factors and such. It's actually been useful. We were trying to decide something the other day and Kyle said, "let's both think of a number, if they add to an odd number, let's do this, if' they're even let's do that." and I said, "that's not fair because there's a greater chance of it being even" (Even + Even = Even, odd + odd = even, even + odd = odd.)
The GMAT is also kind of weird because it has these data sufficiency questions which are annoying, and these essays that are totally stupid. All they want you to do is give two paragraphs showing insufficiencies of an argument and then one paragraph about something that would make the argument stronger. dumb. Anyway, all I need to do is jump 100 points to be the average of most business schools. Average is good, because I have good grades and lots of extracurriculars. haha
I have also been collecting songs for social events and have created an ipod totally dedicated to songs just for social events (mom's red ipod, thanks mom!), which is now called PhRED, unless someone comes up with something better. right now it only has 7 hours of music on it though, so I definitely need to keep working on that.
and then I think other than that has just been museums and cooking and fun. Kyle and I made omelets for lunch and then had ben and jerrys ice cream.....brunch for champions), and then we did the national gallery of art before I had to work at the gym. He got a roommate today, he was pretty bummed haha.
I've also become pretty good friends with a couple girls I intern with. We're all Nik's interns, but we're working on different projects. We want to get tshirts that are hot pink with black writing that say "Nik's Little Ladies" I wanna get PA5 on the back. " OH HEY HI I'm Rebecca Stone with the Associate Director of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery."
I've become a big fan of sushi since the Perinis took me out for it, though Kyle claims I can't say I eat sushi because I only get vegetarian ones. Wasabi and ginger might be two of my favorite flavors. We also watched Shashank Redemption this weekend because I hadn't seen it yet, which was apparently a horrible crime. Anyway, loved the movie, I'd love to read the book, but there's about ten books on my shelf right now to read... Right after I get through four GMAT books, an online course, 10 essays for scholarships, and work.
Tomorrow is the fourth of july. I'm thinking it's going to be weird, so I don't feel like talking about the plan until afterwards. However, the only thing I am certain about is that we're going to see the Declaration of Independence read the National Archives tomorrow, and i am very excited.
Kyle and I talked about this really cool idea I've had for awhile today. I was thinking it would be cool to have scheduled workshops in Phred throughout the year to better people's skills. It started for me with dance, because of my frustration with hoof 'n' hornies not wanting to come within a mile of musicals that have dance in them. have a basic workshop on Tap 101, popular musical theater choreography 101, and then we came up with ideas for vocal skills, improvisational games and activities, reading sheet music, learning light/sound board etc. I think it would be cool to have one or two a month. and maybe talking to people in On Tap or Def Mo. Maybe even charge $1 or $2 for them to go towards HnH. It could be pretty cool.
I am sad Robert Francis is going abroad this semester.
Anyway, it's hard to blog when your life is moving this fast, but I was thinking about coming up with an idea for a blog that can continue, even when I'm at school. Willa (roommate) has a fashion blog and Sierra has a food blog that they keep all the time and write in whenever they have a good story, and I would love to come up with something that I can regularly write about and that doesn't end whenever I go back to school. I want it to be completely original though, because there are lots of shops, fashion, photography, music, food, etc blogs. hmmm. and speaking of hobbies, I've gotten four magnets so far this summer and I love all four of them a ton. they are great additions to my collection and my fridge at Trinity Comm is going to be super hott. :D
Museum shout-outs since I've last written: Newseum and Spy Museum were both great (did 'em with the rents). Newseum may be one of my new favorite museums. I loved it. Yesterday, Kyle, Jill and Alex (nik interns) and I went to the zoo and had an amazing time, even though a lot of the zoo was under construction. got to see a huge giant panda eat for like an hour and giant turtles, and pretty lions etc. also got to watch a gorilla throw up and then eat its vomit. there are some ways that monkeys will just never be like us. We also did the corcoran which was very nice, and very modern. I loved the national gallery of art today.
and the ok go / pomplamoose concert over a week ago was awesome. we were in the front row and had a great time, and kinda made friends with the people around us. biggest regret was not remembering the "A million ways" dance well enough to go onstage and do it while they played it. so sad. but we had a great time.
all for now
love
bec
