i'm sick...i hate sick

not to be whiny, but this is a whiny blogpost. a few weeks ago i received an email from the intern coordinator at my summer job, saying "we checked our calendars, and thought it might be better for you to work from june 4 to august 10 instead of may 28 to august 10." as you can imagine, i was ok with this (it still meets the minimum 10 weeks worked for me to get school public interest funding), and after my very relaxing weekend in the country was psyched for a week of relaxing and errand running. except that monday night we got home and i noticed my throat was scratchy, and it was downhill from there. i'm starting to feel a little better and hoping i will be in tip top shape for the weekend (heading down to pton for a day of reunions on saturday...too poor to attend the rest of it, relatively cheap though it may be)! in my raspy-voiced state i managed to terrify the professor i was meeting with about being a teaching assistant next year, who has a young child at home and politely refused to shake my hand at the end of the meeting for fear of catching the cold. whoops.

weekend getaways

i just got back from spending the long weekend in northwestern connecticut, where my mom's family has long owned a house that sits on a beautiful lake. it was so fabulous--relaxing, warm, sunny. the weather was forecsated to be mixed but there was one 30 second sprinkle of rain and almost continuous sun all weekend. it is one of my favorite places to go in the world. obsessed though i am with nyc, i absolutely adore spending summer days in the country. when i was younger my mom and sister and i would spend months at a time in connecticut, with my dad joining us on weekends. i got really good at doing handstands in the lake, and we went waterskiing almost every day.

does this make me less of a new yorker? or more of a new yorker? or more of a pretentious, overprivileged new yorker? my friend was protesting that if you go away every summer weekend, you never see people in the city. i'm far from going away every weekend, but...i like spending weekends reading books and tanning in a place where cellphones literally do not work and reliable internet connections cost too much to acquire. it's nice.

gorgeous

i got home grumpy and stressed out from all my finals, and after talking on the phone with my parents, i happened to glance out the window...to find this spectacular sunset. it made everything else seem a lot better.






























and it turns out you can see the empire state building just by leaning out the window!!