Crazy day at work. Those of us on permanent staff had a meeting together about work flow issues. All day afterwards I was uncomfortable and just felt generally bad about how it all went down. Unfortunately it feels like it'll be that way for quite awhile. I've learned some valuable lessons about work relationships that I may not have learned working anywhere else and I'm grateful for that. I basically knew that today was going to happen eventually because I was going crazy.
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I got the most fantastic e-mail today from a former student in the program I'm in. She did an internship at Cambridge University in England and my advisor gave me her e-mail address so I could bug her about what it was like. It sounds so great! She calmed some of my fears about the logistics of the whole thing like getting there, finding a place to live, being/feeling safe, being away from home, etc. And she made me really, really excited about the important things like actually being there, working there, getting to know the people, and having the experience of a lifetime for six weeks. I'm excited to hear back from her again because I had some questions about when the terms begin there. It's a good thing to have someone like her that I can contact when I have questions. Maybe I'll go to Cambridge instead of Canterbury... I really wish I were going this summer instead of next summer. I just need to remember to take one day at a time because the days go fast enough
I've officially deleted my MySpace account. I got kind of sad right at the end and was second-guessing myself because I noticed that I've had it for 5.5 years and that's a long time. But it's time to move on. There's no one on there that I need to be in contact with that I'm not in contact with on Facebook. Really it just got boring for me. I couldn't figure out a way to save my blog entries on there and that's mostly what I was sad about. I don't miss my DeadJournal entries and I probably won't miss my MySpace entries.
I just went for my first outdoor exercise excursion since spring. What a delight. It was sensory overload. I saw the most beautiful red tulips I think I've ever seen. They were like, more than red. They were high-definition-tv-in-real-life red. I wish I would've had my camera on me, but a picture wouldn't have done them justice anyway. The sun was shining in my face so brightly that I could see my eyelashes. The wind was blowing so hard that my sweat-soaked skin felt cool. And I re-fell in love with the band Thrice, particularly their song called "Night Diving."
I determined today that I need some sort of creative outlet. This is what resulted. This is my first actual blog since I had a DeadJournal. DeadJournal and LiveJournal were blogs before the term "blog" even existed, I think. I wonder if there's a way to import my blog entries on MySpace since I will soon be deleting it. I've written some fairly thought-out entries in that thing and I'd be sad to lose all of that. Oh well.