doo doo doo

a classmate of mine made a "30 things to do by 30" list -- a nice idea! 

i'd love to do some epic traveling, but this doesn't feel like the year for me. 

here's my list. it's less than 30:

• graduate and celebrate
  
• get a job working on issues that i care about

• train for and finish a distance race
• multi-day hike in colorado
• drive across the country, check out the south

• grow plants to eat
  
• join a new csa
• volunteer at an urban farm
• find and master special go-to veg meals

• take a non-fiction writing class
  
• make the house homey
• join / start a book club
• interview my parents and write / illustrate our family story

• dress up

• make more girl friends. so many have left for school or work!

• take time to meditate and breathe
  
• unplug my brain: understand how i feel and be nice to myself about it.
  

quote of the day

"if i can't microwave it, it's not food." :)

spring break

i visited sf.

• fat angel with matt, rebecca et al and the artist.
  
• dates with matt.  mcnee ranch hike & bento boxes from 903.  delica & dave eggars talk.
• painted the hallway a nice, vibrant yellow.  i don't think you can feel anything but happy and warm standing in that hallway!  also, decision to use subway tile for the backsplash.  my summer project, perhaps?
  
• meet up with alums at various institutions.  lots of leads to follow up on.
• pasta making success with keqin!  it's been fun to have a culinary co-adventurer :) 
• finished crossing to safety by wallace stegner, a beautiful, reflective book about marriage and friendship, with long passages like this: ''What ever happened to the passion we all had to improve ourselves, live up to our potential, leave a mark on the world? . . . We all hoped, in whatever way our capacities permitted, to define and illustrate the worthy life. With me it was always to be done in words. . . . Leave a mark on the world. Instead, the world has left marks on us. We got older. Life chastened us so that now we lie waiting to die. . . . And all of us, I suppose, could at least be grateful that our lives have not turned out harmful or destructive.''
• hunger games with garett.
• thai massage for myself :)
• made some frozen meals for matt, the last batch until i'm back :)
  

hilarious

text from my sister: I had a dream that you grew a third eye and when you were talking to me you didn't even address it.  I kept thinking, "I don't want a third eye!"

p.s.

we finally finished our report on health in west bengal.

by far the longest, most quantitative report of our class.

happenings, vol. 2

it's nice when school and my interests are aligned:

• learning about a cool non-profit, green city force, for a social entrepreneurship project.
• modeling household-level air-purifier purchasing decisions in beijing (to filter out PM 2.5) for a risk project.
• a nice series of management seminars.
• going to the undergrad dorms to get free yoga :)  we're not sketchy at all.

development (i.e., economics of poor countries) is a pretty disappointing class. maybe it will be better when go back down to earth with a micro view instead of all that macro.  ick.

happenings

matt came and went.

• modern dance performance.  we left after 2/3's of the show.
• potluck, clue, and oh hell.
  
• beat pandemic!
• how i met your mother.
  
• the met & mediterranean food.  walked through american period furniture and egyptian sections.

it's nice to do non-school stuff.