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Damnit, I have about eight pages' worth of stuff I want to write, and I've only got enough awakeness left to get through about one. I'm soooo tired...
This weekend was awesome. Friday Elizabeth took me on a "date" to a benefit concert for Darfur. It was three hours long, which I expected to be extraordinarily painful (or at least depressing), but it wasn't at all. They had an a cappella group, and the New Haven Ballet, and some bhangra dancers, and some African drummers, and some other really neat little one- or two-song acts, and most of them were inspiring and hopeful. Then they brought out this guy called Matt Nathanson, whom I had never even heard of before, but he was awesome. Elizabeth and I bought his CDs afterwards and had him sign them. I've been listening to him all weekend and he's AWESOME. Plus, he was hilarious and he's from California. What's not to love?
Yesterday I was dragged out of bed at the ungodly hour of 8 am (I was bribed with coffee), and driven somewhere up north to a place called Ragged. There we (Andrew and Emily and I) met up with a bunch of other climbers, and we took a short hike up to these awesome rock cliffs, and spent the entire day climbing outdoors and sunning ourselves. It was fantastic. I love love LOVE real rock. I tore up my hands and sunburned my face just the tiniest bit, and felt alive and wonderful. And I got to tie Emily's arm to her torso so she wouldn't use her injured shoulder. Life is good.
Today I got up early again (curse you, laundry!). Around noon I had my "date" type thing. I guess at some point I should actually explain about this guy... I met him on the internet, through a reputable dating site, about a week and a half ago, and we've been exchanging the world's longest emails since then. He's British, and a technology/engineer/banker type guy, and he's awesome. We met today just after noon at a zoo in Trumbull, and walked around for three hours looking at the critters and talking. Then we went to Starbucks and sat and talked for another two hours. It was awesome. Really awesomely awesome. I mean, I'm not in love with him or anything, obviously, having just met him, but he seems really cool, and normal, and I like him. He was fun to hang out with. Plus, my shoulders got sunburned and that means it's summer, and he likes to be outside. I think we'll get along really well.
And tonight Elizabeth had a dinner at her place, so I got to eat fantastic food with great people, and then watch really bad scifi TV. All in all, it was a great day. It was a great weekend. I accomplished nothing academically, but my spirits are very high, and I think I might do a fourth rotation. Silly Kara.
Anyway, hopefully I'll get a chance to update more this week, but right now I'm taking my tired self off to bed before I collapse in front of the computer.
:-)
This weekend was awesome. Friday Elizabeth took me on a "date" to a benefit concert for Darfur. It was three hours long, which I expected to be extraordinarily painful (or at least depressing), but it wasn't at all. They had an a cappella group, and the New Haven Ballet, and some bhangra dancers, and some African drummers, and some other really neat little one- or two-song acts, and most of them were inspiring and hopeful. Then they brought out this guy called Matt Nathanson, whom I had never even heard of before, but he was awesome. Elizabeth and I bought his CDs afterwards and had him sign them. I've been listening to him all weekend and he's AWESOME. Plus, he was hilarious and he's from California. What's not to love?
Yesterday I was dragged out of bed at the ungodly hour of 8 am (I was bribed with coffee), and driven somewhere up north to a place called Ragged. There we (Andrew and Emily and I) met up with a bunch of other climbers, and we took a short hike up to these awesome rock cliffs, and spent the entire day climbing outdoors and sunning ourselves. It was fantastic. I love love LOVE real rock. I tore up my hands and sunburned my face just the tiniest bit, and felt alive and wonderful. And I got to tie Emily's arm to her torso so she wouldn't use her injured shoulder. Life is good.
Today I got up early again (curse you, laundry!). Around noon I had my "date" type thing. I guess at some point I should actually explain about this guy... I met him on the internet, through a reputable dating site, about a week and a half ago, and we've been exchanging the world's longest emails since then. He's British, and a technology/engineer/banker type guy, and he's awesome. We met today just after noon at a zoo in Trumbull, and walked around for three hours looking at the critters and talking. Then we went to Starbucks and sat and talked for another two hours. It was awesome. Really awesomely awesome. I mean, I'm not in love with him or anything, obviously, having just met him, but he seems really cool, and normal, and I like him. He was fun to hang out with. Plus, my shoulders got sunburned and that means it's summer, and he likes to be outside. I think we'll get along really well.
And tonight Elizabeth had a dinner at her place, so I got to eat fantastic food with great people, and then watch really bad scifi TV. All in all, it was a great day. It was a great weekend. I accomplished nothing academically, but my spirits are very high, and I think I might do a fourth rotation. Silly Kara.
Anyway, hopefully I'll get a chance to update more this week, but right now I'm taking my tired self off to bed before I collapse in front of the computer.
:-)
