It's been interesting waking up early every morning (trying to at least get 6-7 hours of sleep and have been successful at it despite the Craziness!) to see the people who are writing on FB that they had an all-nighter. It almost feels as if everyone is a vampire because there is as much FB activity during the night as during the day (watch out, Edward Cullen!). Also interesting how much time we spend on FB (not comdemning it because a healthy dose is good but sometimes I go over that dose but I am not really that bad... as least I don't do Farmville). At least I have come to to the conclusion that I like Hell's Week better than Hell's Month (Hell's Week is the week before spring break during spring semester when everyone has all their stuff due; Hell's Month is the entire month of October when everyone suffers different jolts of torture at different times of the month). Anyway maybe everything is not that bad because I have still managed to go to the Tombs every day and even had a b-day that was not at the Tombs. However, yesterday at the Tombs I would have managed to finish my Tombs outing in 6 minutes if when I was leaving I would not have heard "Gabi" and stopped because it turned out to be my friends the former grand squire and B2. Therefore I stayed for 20 more minutes with them but I technically could have gone to the Tombs for 6 minutes yesterday (you get to know the bartenders and then they offer you fast service... score!).
Despite the consistent torture of Hell's Week I am glad I am not at Cornell (otherwise someone might have jumped off a bridge). Makes me glad that though there are people like Provost O'Donnell who only believe in studying there is a balance here at Georgetown. Despite, the work people are happy (maybe because we have spring break immediately afterwards to recover our ravaged souls, innefective minds and unfit bodies). Anyway, people are happy are Georgetown because we are the Bomb (despite our b-ball end of year bombing). I can still say that despite my great heaps of work I still manage to go out a lot (even I have no idea when I actually work because despite an instance when I handed handing in a 3-page paper by mistake instead of a 10-page paper... I thought it was meant to be 3 pages.... I do in fact finish the work that I have to hand in... I also think my housemates cannot tell me when I work either so it is ok).
Lastly, spring break is coming up. I am going to Florida but it is not as it sounds because I will not be going to the beaches (I do not really like the beaches that much... I call it the Puerto Rico syndrome because I have been in close proximity to the beaches for too long). They did ask if we had a swimsuit but that might be just one day. In reality it is a cultural immersion among migrant workers to explore the injestices they suffer. So I will be speaking to migrant workers about their experiences, tutoring kids at a high school, helping at soup kitchens, and going to their employment point at 5:00 A.M. (its not as Fegie says: G.L.A.M.O.R.O.U.S.). Also I will be sleeping on the floor with a small mat (literaty the guy who gave it to me at Outdoor Education told me it does not even make a difference) and a sleeping bag.
I do not have one warning because we will be drivig down there and I am one of the drivers: do not go anywhere between Florida and DC during the duration of spring break. I have had 7 crashes against stationary objects (they have all been at about 10 MPH... I clearly cannot measures distances). Even though it sounds like a lot they were all within a year of me getting my drivers licence (yes I was given a licence despite my imcompetence) and I have not had one in the last 3 years so it is not really that bad (my worst crash with the damage estimated at $10,000 was not even my fault... the guy hit me at 50 MPH while we were in a traffic jam and I hit the car in front of me as a result and both the front and rear of the car were severely damaged). I sign off now because I have work but I will be incommunicada for the next week so I beg for your patience and hold those snow balls for some time (once the weather turns better we can throw dirt balls!) but be comforted in the knowlegde that I still have texting (I will make sure not to have my cellphone on me when we kayak).
Thursday, 4 March 2010
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