and I've been in NYC for about 5 weeks now. Albiet, 2.5 of those weeks were attributed to some intense apartment hunting! It paid off though, I now have a room that's about the size of my entire bed. BUT! It's 4 blocks from IAB (International Affairs Building) where all my classes are, has tons of natural sunlight, a huge living room, and my apt-mate cooks a lot and is a black belt in martial arts in case someone breaks in!
Plus, a small room forces some creativity in decorating skillz, like an abusive use of safety pins.
New York, or SIPA to be exact, is really bad for my restless, anxious, impatient disposition. It exacerbates it ten-fold. I can't even sit still for 10 minutes without checking my email and finding out some new opportunity has come along. Want to write for the school paper? Meet at lunch! Job fair with a major banking firm? Tomorrow at 1pm! Panel on human rights in Latin America? I'll be there! Free screening of a documentary on Microfinancing? Writing a paper on it! Class on the Euro-crisis with the former Prime Minister of Hungary? Taking it! Dinner party with fellow foodies? You know it! Networking opportunity for women in the energy field? I'll probably be late... but I'm gonna show up! I can't let an opportunity slip by unexplored. And that's why I've gotten probably 10 hours of sleep in the last 3 days. And basically have been sleep deprived since I moved here.
Homework is kinda on the backburner, even though it should be a priority. I'm trying to figure out which opportunities I'm NOT interested in, and that's nearly impossible and extremely problematic. I tick off all the thinks I need to do the next day in my head before I sleep, and can't sleep anymore by the time I run through it all. I even wake up early just to organize my thoughts in my head even further.
And yet my brain is still a mess. I don't think there's a way to fix that.
I love it though, as crazy as it is. The mix and mishmash of people and ideas and possibilities... That's what I came here for! To be stressed and tested and pulled and stretched in every way. I'm still trying to figure out a chaotic schedule that works for me. it will happen! And it will be messy!
My posts will be more specific once life settles down a bit, and I can actually think and fathom and comprehend the fact that this is happening, this is real life that I'm living, and these are real events and not just a blur of moments and time.
For now, when it gets hectic and messy and frenzied, I temporarily escape to 2 weekends ago when I was in Delware/Pennsylvania visiting Mike's family, and it was literally one of the most nostalgic and beautiful places I've ever been to. I'll elaborate more later!
Heading to Connecticut this weekend, excited!! Maybe I'll actually see some leaves change colors!
Ah who am I kidding... I miss LA weather already!
