Onwards and upwards

With those last two posts I hit 25. That's a lot for someone that has been called a blog slacker. Anyway, I'm off to DC and all the good things that come with having a job. You know: long hours, little pay, 5-day weeks, all the headaches. But I'm excited because it will be mine. All are welcome as soon as I get an apartment (don't ask) and I have decided to stop having weekly panic attacks. On that note, I apologize to those that had to partake in calming me down, you know who you are, and I will gladly return the favor if any of you try to worry yourself unconscious. That is all for now. This week will be hectic, but maybe I'll blog to relief tension...

Reading Rainbow

A note on reading: many of you grads might find (like I did when I did no work during my time abroad in London) that your mind is in withdrawal of a sort. You may have hated that orgo book, that history coursepack, or that econ homework, but you did it and now your brain is used to that level of intellectual stimulation. Anyway, all I'm really saying is I have LOTS of reading suggestions if anyone wants them. Right now I'm reading Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (he wrote Virgin Suicides too) and it's an awesome book if you like big epics and clean writing.
Also, I would like to reiterate the fact that Oprah did not invent the concept of a good book and putting Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude on her book club list is like putting Tiger Woods at the top of a good golfers list. Solitude was written in the late 1960s and Marquez won a Nobel Prize for Literature in the early 1980s, so lots of other people had figured out the book was good before Oprah. My only caution is that you probably have to commit to reading it in chunks of more than 20 pages because the paragraphs sometimes go on for pages and it's hard to start and stop. I have tons more recommendations (just ask my friend Abby, to whom I gave a summer reading list). So that should help you and the brain out a little...

Blogging as validation

I'm reinstating the blog. I leave for DC on Saturday (!) and then I start work on Monday. It will be stressful, hectic, possibly frustrating at times, but I am excited. There is no reason not to be: I have a job, my application on my apartment is pending, and I'm 22 years old. Maybe I am reinstating the blog because I need to convince myself of these pros in a more formal setting, but nonetheless there you have it. Me, DC, and a life. Good deal.