"Summer internship" can be reversed to read "internship summer." Both accurately describe my three months time spent away from school, at school.
Goals I had originally set out to accomplish over the break include reading, writing, piano, photography, watching movies, and working out. Of these I only accomplished reading, writing and movies. But out of stubbornness, I blame work for eating up my time (which is not to say that working was unpleasant). Plus that whole summer conference deal made it impossible for me to think about anything else for a while.
The day-in day-out schedule was:
8:00 AM - Leave for work
9:00-10:00ish - Start work
5:00ish - End work
6:00ish - Leave work
7:00ish - Home
11:00ish - Sleep
That period between 7 and 11 tended to be wasted by the overwhelming desire accumulated at work to just sit and do absolutely nothing. Of course, I did accomplish other things on occasion, but chances are if you were to catch me after dinner, I would look like a slug.
I gained a bad habit too. Reading a book halfway and adding it to a list of half-read books to return to later.
I saw movies.
- Der Untergang - a film about the last days of Hitler
- Doubt - a film about the subtle war between a conservative nun and a progressive priest, at a Catholic grade school
- Dawn of the Dead (remake) - Hell is where zombies run fast
- The Host - Korean monster movie, similar to Jaws which I haven't seen
- The Good, the Bad and the Weird - Korean spaghetti Western...jjam-pong Eastern? (horrible joke)
- Planes, Trains and Automobiles - The funniest movie about the traveler's worst nightmares. Already saw this one before but a while ago
- District 9 - "I just want to eat your arm!"
- GI Joe - Michael Bay's explosive (ha) smile shines upon this one. I only wish I could have seen the French audience when the Eiffel Tower got eaten by fleas. That could be the most symbolic kick to the noix de France
- Lawrence of Arabia - Four hours about the man who led the united Arab factions against the Ottoman Empire
- Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Saw it again. One of my favorites. A comedy about nuclear apocalypse
- Dekalog - A Polish TV serial. Each 1 hour episode revolves around one of the ten commandments, without ever making a reference to it, applied to the lives of common people
- Monk - I like this show. A hypochondriac detective. My sister told me about it
Reintroduced to jazz. Thelonious Monk and Bill Evans. I really want to take jazz lessons of some sort.
I'm addicted to Monty Python comedy.
Going back to school to study will be something new in the sense that I've already forgotten the pressures of studying. But campus has become second home for sure now. It's like I took a 2 week break after school ended.
I have some other things I should recap too, but I can't think of them right now. My mind is saturated.
@Kanyin - I don't know if you still hang around this or your Google blog anymore, but if I'm interpreting the book We the Living right, Ayn Rand's idea of pride as our central and only humanity is interesting to say the least. Haven't finished it, but according to her foreword, she believes this book to best describe her philosophy.
@Tiffany - I'm still reading The Castle. It's been more or less a page/day read. Raison d'etre stated above. We can start The Road if you would like. If you started already, good for you taking initiative haha.
2 comments:
B. Hong, I'm definitely still lurking. I should probably read it eventually instead of discrediting her based on hearsay. If I do, we should discuss it sometime.
I'm thinking about starting to blog again, but I feel like it'd be so jarring to just start where I inexplicably left off. What do you think?
That lethargy that sets in after the work day is something I'm very worried about. I've never "worked" a full day in my life (not by choice, by immigration restrictions) and I always pictured my ideal adult day as one where I'd come home from work, prepare dinner from scratch to a lovely soundtrack and then (because I have no television) settle down to a good book. But what you say, and I've heard this from others as well, worries me. Do you think it's just not feasible, or are there certain variables that can be adjusted to accommodate that?
But overall, your summer sounds pretty fulfilling. Ours were kind of parallel in that we read, wrote, watched things and I wanted to violin more while you wanted to piano more. Towards the end I, for a reason I'm still not sure of, found myself listening to Nina Simone really hard. I also saw a PBS documentary on Parisian jazz in the 20s and started listening to a lot of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli. But I haven't quite advanced to the more modern jazz yet. I'm thinking about it though. Could you put together a starter kit for me?
oh my god i can't believe you just found out about monk. typical. hahaha
it's okay. i am a mental slug regardless of day activity. case&point: summer w and w/o summer school, did jackshit
you don't have to finish the castle; it's not finished itself anyway. anyway, i'll just wait until you finish.
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