A not so good day for self-confidence (this toothpaste isn't working)
It is 9 degrees outside. So it's actually 9 degrees, but with the windchill it feels like
miserable.
I am sick, I look like I am sick, I am tired and I look it. I don't want to write a stupid urban planning paper on how cars effect American road design, I don't want to pick up my recommendation letters across campus, I don't want to go to a two-hour make up presidency class tonight and then a debate meeting, I don't want to edit my stupid grad school shit anymore, my Chinese DVDs came, I guess I do want to watch those. But I just want to thaw out and sleep and have that be the end of it.
I did get a weird compliment today - actually not so weird and from my favorite professor. I told him about my trip to MIT and he's an architecture guy, so he's been pro-MIT the whole time. I told him about the demographic of the program and he consoled me - and in response to my
diversity comment, he said - "well, in you they are getting a 22-yr old white girl from Connecticut, but she's not a fluff-head." That is such a Professor Andres compliment - not a fluff-head. Then when I mentioned to him what I plan to do between now and whatever comes next in the saga, things like going home and cooking, he said, "I never knew you had a domestic side." Apparently this is a hard concept to grasp because it's the second humorous / surprise reponse I've heard to my ambitious plans to toy with recipies. The thing is, this will wear off in a week and I'll be in the same ol' rut and ordering vegetarian dumplings everynight from Sun Sun. So I am not offended and it is funny, I'll give you that.
posted by lmjasinski at 11:57 AM
