adventures in Geneva and beyond!

Q Returns

November 3, 2010 at 1:30 am (Uncategorized)

Some updates:

- Grad school makes me feel like I’m in high school again. I have a locker, a name tag to facilitate cold-calling (which I will bedazzle with gold stars) and I’m always rushing around the circular setup of the Forum at the Kennedy School like a mouse in a maze. Sometimes I shoot out and down the right hallway. But more often than not, I inexplicably end up at the Office of Career Services. And no matter how hard I work, I can never, ever finish all my work on time. On the flip side, my classmates and professors are great

- Andrea and I went to the Rally to Restore Sanity And/Or Fear in DC this past weekend! The rally had some logistical challenges because they weren’t expecting so many people, but the atmosphere (created by a preponderance of sane people) was just amazing. “Yes Pecan!” made it onto the neon sign Robin and I carried around and some people actually got the joke. Despite the 10+ hour bus trip home, I found myself grinning widely and absent-mindedly in econ class on Monday.

- I poll monitored for Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund at the Metropolitan Community Room in Chinatown today. Who knew I could talk about voting rights in Chinese? The expat newspaper “World Journal” took a picture of us and some cuckoo guy talked to me at length about how medicare-covered circumcision was costing Massachusetts tax payers millions of dollars. I got banh-mi at my favorite hole-in-the-wall place on Washington Street, which is the whole reason I volunteered to be an election monitor in Chinatown (just kidding…kind of).

- Why are ballot initiatives so confusing? How do they expect the typical voter to understand all that jargon?

- My apartment is bringing out my inner Martha Stewart. I decorated our door with red leaves and orange mini-pumpkins. The apartment (which we haven’t named yet) is also a place where all babies are welcome, provided that I am not responsible for them.