I am so exhausted…This summer (working at PARC) was absolutely great, but I feel so worn down now that I am anything but prepared to start a new school year (especially with a heavy class workload). Already this week (week 1, no less), I’ve been working at school beyond 11pm more than once! It’s only Wednesday!
I’m feeling relieved, though, that I have finally finished all the work I needed to do this week. Tomorrow (October 4) I’m flying to San Jose for the night, and then Leif and I are heading to North Carolina for a long weekend! It’s Leif’s 10-year high school reunion from the North Carolina School of Science & Math (NCSSM). Does that make him old? We are also going to try to rally the troops (his high school friends) to make a visit to the mountains for a day or two…we were there once before, and it was quite nice to escape “computer-land” — I mean the state of most of my life. Then we are back in the Bay Area from Oct 10-14 for my 5-year college reunion — nuts! I got word that an old-old-old high school friend (Latika Ravi) lives in San Francisco now so I really hope we get a chance to visit her. I know I will be busy, though, with reunions of my own group of college friends, freshman dorm, class (’02) party, etc. Although this mini-vacation is not exactly in line with a school break, it is much needed and I am looking forward to it!
I will, of course, still be online, reading, writing, working and may even answer the phone especially for those of you I haven’t talked to in a while: Addie, Danika, Erinn, Mom (in order of the longest time that has elapsed since last talking). Did you not make the list? Try g-chat instead where I can pretend to talk to you while still doing my other work. Please forgive me. This sort of nonsense talk is what happens when you’re up waaaaay past your bedtime and you still can’t fall asleep…but that’s a story for another day.
