The Future Isn't What It Used to be

I think I had said in my last entry that I would post soon and post more about the trip: I think I lied about those two goals, which have whithered, crashed, and burned since I last posted an entry. Oops! I guess blame revision, exam studying, farewell parties, the crappy exchange rate, and absinthe for everything, I swear! Getting back into the groove was definitely more difficult than I thought. I'm lucky 'metrics has revision sessions because those are a lifesaver and give me an incentive to fake studying. And Lat Am also needs weekly comments due! And it has its last lecture the first day of my finals. What happened? I don't know. Inertia from 6 weeks of break is still trying to be shrugged off. I promise it will when we get down to brass tacks (or brass tax, your pick)

There was probably an earlier blog post where I was ruminating about the future, life, fate, values, etc. I don't remember I rambled a hell of a lot and I apologize if you tuned out. One question I was thinking about was uncertainty and complexity of life: is it real and something that has just now come to light or was it just me overreacting to everything? Well the verdict seems to be that yes, everything has gone to hell in a hand basket and nothing is as nice and neatly packaged as I thought it was. However it's not as bad as I thought, no cause for dread. I'm still alive, functioning, and enjoying my time, so what's to worry? Maybe now I am having reverse integration problems as my time runs out here and now I need to get back to life and routine of the Tri-State area (NJ, NY, CT) for the summer and then Georgetown for my final year. I guess you'll hear about that soon enough.

So looking at the summer what am I doing? I was accepted to the Merrill Lynch internship! Nice! But the problem is they won't let me do it unless it is for credit and Georgetown won't let me do it for credit unless I take some Management course and pay them $1000/credit. I really could care less about credit I don't need, but everyone wants everything from me. I'm trying some last ditch effort things to attempt to salvage whatever chances I have left, but it looks as though my plans have fallen apart for summer. But luckily I have a few tricks up my sleeve, other opportunities being pursued. I can always become a GOP operative for Bergen County (no joke!) or work for a start up company. You'll hear from me about that soon.

I'm surprised I'm able to type at all: my fingers hurt and I keep hitting the wrong keys. You know what that means: I just returned from a day of rock climbing! So Jess hangs out with her climber friends and does elitist climber things (hehe Jess is going to kill me when she reads this). So the last time I had climbed really (not counting that rip off Chuck E. Cheese thing in South Carolina last summer that I went up once) was in middle school with friends in the Shawangunk Mountains (or as the locals call them The Gunks). So I wondered if I would get put to shame by Jess and other climbers. Jess I guess was feeling magnanimous and merciful, so she started us on some bouldering before we did top rope climbing (I sure as hell as in no position to do lead climbing). So we did runs switching off, ran into some of her friends (she's a popular one, Jess is) and then by the time I looked at a clock again, 3 hours had gone by. By this time fatigue had set in and although nothing hurt, my strength was failing and I felt like someone had beat me with a meat tenderizing hammer, as I felt like mush. So the verdict? I actually did pretty well considering I have not climbed in ages. I was able to keep up with Jess's pace: I think we both had a pretty good day climbing. Maybe if I get time and more money, I'll go again (hah if she lets me: her friends I think mistook me for a significant other, so she'll have to deal with that one!)

Since I can scratch that off my list of stuff to get done while I'm over here across the Pond, here is the remaining stuff I can think of at the moment:
-Volleyball with D6 in Hyde Park, complete with our Darnall shirts
-Park picnic in the park hill right above Regents Park
-Maybe see a West End show with Jess (or with others too but she seems to be the only one adventurous enough to try this stuff out)
-go to Cockfosters and get photos with signs
-shoot more with the ULU Rifle Club at the range if I can
-go to more famous bars and my usually hangout spots one more time
-Miscellaneous sights in london to see (like locations that show up in songs and Tower of London)