guess who's having the best week ever?
sure, paul is in africa saving pandas, and elie got busy to some jazz at the fat cat. but kristine is having the best week ever!
first of all, i had an SNL lazy sunday, except ten times better because it was on a wednesday: i hit up magnolia and macked on some cupcakes--they were crazy delicious. i'm going to make sure to have a lazy monday tomorrow.
to make life even more awesome, i found out this weekend that i've been hired as the associate administrator for the upcoming nyc group relations conference at the teachers college in november! yes, this is the fall version of the conference i attended in the spring that i came out of all "crazy-like"--as paul likes to say. as crazy as i might have seemed, i had an incredible transformative experience, and i've been exploring more ways of getting involved in the institute. a few weeks ago, my t.a. from my group dynamics course contacted me about the possibility of helping her administer a conference and observe the proceedings from "the other side of the boundary," as we like to say. on saturday, i interviewed with the director of the conference and have been "formally authorized to take up" the role and all the benefits and challenges that come with it. while the experience is certainly going to be very different from that of a participant, i will have a whole new perspective from which to view and interpret group interactions... so exciting! stay tuned for a post come november!
and, the frosting on an already crazy delicous cupcake is that, despite mta construction that forced me to take 5 different trains to get to brooklyn this morning, i am now authorized to volunteer at 826nyc. i'm a little nervous about tutoring kids, but thrilled to be participating in nurturing the future of america. fyi, i get a 40 percent discount on items at the superhero supply store, so if anyone wants muscles in a can or a cape or anything, leave your requests in the comments section of this post.
i also had a pleasant but accidental gal-date today after the volunteer orientation. this girl noticed my filipino passport and mentioned that she was filipina, too. we ended up taking the train back into manhattan, hanging out at the strand (where i picked up how we are hungry, by dave eggers--in honor of my first day at his tutoring center--and assassination vacation, by sarah vowell), lunch at klong (whose crispy duck salad rivals thai phoon's--yum!), and shoe shopping in the village and union square. i spent four hours hanging out with a complete stranger today. it's weird that that's not weird. only in new york.
first of all, i had an SNL lazy sunday, except ten times better because it was on a wednesday: i hit up magnolia and macked on some cupcakes--they were crazy delicious. i'm going to make sure to have a lazy monday tomorrow.
to make life even more awesome, i found out this weekend that i've been hired as the associate administrator for the upcoming nyc group relations conference at the teachers college in november! yes, this is the fall version of the conference i attended in the spring that i came out of all "crazy-like"--as paul likes to say. as crazy as i might have seemed, i had an incredible transformative experience, and i've been exploring more ways of getting involved in the institute. a few weeks ago, my t.a. from my group dynamics course contacted me about the possibility of helping her administer a conference and observe the proceedings from "the other side of the boundary," as we like to say. on saturday, i interviewed with the director of the conference and have been "formally authorized to take up" the role and all the benefits and challenges that come with it. while the experience is certainly going to be very different from that of a participant, i will have a whole new perspective from which to view and interpret group interactions... so exciting! stay tuned for a post come november!
and, the frosting on an already crazy delicous cupcake is that, despite mta construction that forced me to take 5 different trains to get to brooklyn this morning, i am now authorized to volunteer at 826nyc. i'm a little nervous about tutoring kids, but thrilled to be participating in nurturing the future of america. fyi, i get a 40 percent discount on items at the superhero supply store, so if anyone wants muscles in a can or a cape or anything, leave your requests in the comments section of this post.
i also had a pleasant but accidental gal-date today after the volunteer orientation. this girl noticed my filipino passport and mentioned that she was filipina, too. we ended up taking the train back into manhattan, hanging out at the strand (where i picked up how we are hungry, by dave eggers--in honor of my first day at his tutoring center--and assassination vacation, by sarah vowell), lunch at klong (whose crispy duck salad rivals thai phoon's--yum!), and shoe shopping in the village and union square. i spent four hours hanging out with a complete stranger today. it's weird that that's not weird. only in new york.
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