AAS graduation and another academic year has gone and passed, yet I am still bustling around, looking for work experience to add to my resume, looking for (paid) jobs that might support said experience. The beauty of my new internship and a new hostessing job is that this summer is a fresh start. For better or for worse, instead of having me work the full 6 days available to the 2 commitments, both have selected 2 instead of 3, so I am left with an awkward schedule of tuesday, friday, and sunday all free. Never have I had so many days off, and quite frankly I don't know whether to be overjoyed or annoyed.
Just one day-long marathon of Sex and the City and pigging out on jalapeno chips and made-to-order chinese is enough, but what of the other 2 days? My mother emailed me to say that I should do something that I've always wanted to do, and I am sitting here sifting through my mind for the nearly untouched file marked "for free time". It's hard to remember a time so carefree, yet now I am feeling oddly restless. It has always been out the door and never look back, rush around and reunions for lunch, then scuttle on home as the date inevitably moves forward on my phone.
The fact of the matter is that I have become a workaholic, partly to support the few days that I actually do go out--and the shoes that must complement them--partly to keep industry pace with NYC. Now that I am free to relax and think (oh did i mention I have a cold...in the summer?!), it's a feeling of unfamiliar leisure. Ergo here is a working list of what I hope to accomplish this summer:
go SWIMMING as often as I possibly can.
go to the BEACH and get TAN at least once a weekend.
organize my five MILLION hoarded fabric swatches.
go to a bookstore and just READ all day.
read at least TEN books, with at least three being in the canon.
watch MAD MEN.
have as many PICNICS in as many PARKS in nyc.
save money to buy a FROYO machine.
try MORE cuisine from EVERYWHERE.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
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