SF!

I gave myself a holiday today. BART was free today as I guess a gift from the transit authority owning to the fact that the highway interchange before the Bay Bridge collapsed. Harrowing story with flames and a daring escape. But in any case, I took advantage of the beautiful warm weather to take a jaunt into the city. Also notable on my excursion:

- a random biker told me i have very beautiful hair.
- had a conversation with the elevator dude at Coit Tower. he came from Shanghai 20 years ago. lived in virginia. Chinese people don't get paid as much here. the rest i couldn't quite make out because my chinese is not so great.
- saw the wild parrots of telegraph hill! they are green with red heads. magnificent.
- spent some time browsing at the city lights bookstore. very cool place! books are full price though.

This in an attempt to stall having to finish my work for school and work on that speech. Gah. Will work...tomorrow.

My fellow MSWs

These next few weeks...these last few weeks...

In about 4 weeks I will have completed my 2 years of graduates study. Done with graduate school? Ahhh! Time to be a real adult! (Or something like that)

Before then...
- 2 presentations
- 2 final papers
- 1 final research project
and...
- 1 graduation speech!

I auditioned and was chosen to be our student graduation speaker at our commencement exercises on May 12. I didn't think I would get picked, but apparently my heartfelt, humanistic speech went over well with our graduation committee and so I was picked. Eeek! I'll post it once I've worked on it and finalized it some more, but something for you to look forward to. To address my fellow students, to tell my dad what social work is, to give myself closure and move on.

snoqualmie

Ok, I didn't go to Snoqualmie, but I vaguely associate the word with Seattle because my sis went on a trip to Seattle and went to the falls and I think it is just a cute name. Snoqualmie!

Report of conclusion of Spring Break...went to Seattle with sis to visit much loved friend. (KK, your the best!) We also went with the intention of scoping out Seattle U for my sis. I think despite her reservations--a too chipper L1 student giving us an über positive tour of the school and a very white class that we sat in on where students looked up celebrity news and updated their myspace accounts on their laptops--she loves Seattle and may just end up there. We had a lovely time too playing with friend, meeting people, and traipsing around downtown. It was so weird though to think about graduate school, leaving it or staring it anew. Phases of life. Next steps. Adulthood...ok, i'm scaring myself. Last word about that...Snoqualmie!

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Oh, in poking around the internet for a picture of Seattle, I popped to this blog by a Seattlite woman. She's thirty and married. She just had a baby. She's a geologist. Writes such frank and funny entries about her life. Beautiful and simple. Check it out misspudding.