It's frustrating. When I think about my future, I see a big, black hole at the end of August. Well, I guess that's what most people see when they look into their future because not everyone is psychic, but I'm sure at this point, people already have ideas of things they're going to be doing in September or October or the end of the year. They ( Read more... )

1. If I were endowed with a superpower, it would be the ability to absorb the contents of a book by touching the cover, as if I instantaneously read and retained all the information. Knowledge is power, people.

2. Damn. I missed the National Hip Hop Political Convention last week. That sounded like fun.

I've spent all day staring at admissions and requirements for top ten international affairs grad programs, and I've decided a few things today ( Read more... )

I didn't get the internship.

Time to start looking for a job.

Because I am currently unemployed, I find myself spending almost all of my time looking at stupid blogs and watching TV on Hulu. I need to ( Read more... )

It wasn't as hard as I thought. Just your basic "tell me about yourself" and "what do you hope to gain from this position" sort of thing. I tried my best. Now I guess I just have to wait. She said there were a few more people she had to interview (ugh).

And I had stayed up all night trying to catch up on my DN!s and read as many press releases ( Read more... )

I am starting to go CRAZY waiting to hear back about this D.C. thing. I've been kind of worried that I didn't get it because it's been so long since they said they were going to make their decision, but then, I'm holding out hope because it was only a week ago that my key recommender told me that she was still playing phone tag with the internship ( Read more... )

Juawana + MT from Shelby on Vimeo.

Thanks for the vid, Shelby.

I'm supposed to find out today! Or tomorrow! I'm so nervous about it. The anticipation is killer.

Things are looking good for the D.C. internship with several strong endorsements and committee members being favorable past professors. I have my fingers crossed, but something told me that my outlook is good. So, if all goes according to plan ( Read more... )