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I only have three more days left before my 3 week vacation begins. Whoohoo! My internship ends on Friday and my brother arrives on Saturday evening. One of my friends is having a 30th birthday pub crawl on Saturday night so I think we’ll meet her and her husband at that sometime around 8pm. In other words, the weekend is shaping up. I’m really excited about my brother’s visit and that he’ll get to meet most of my (drunken) friends.

Strange: I have no less than four internship exit interviews this week. I’m really glad that they want to know what I thought of my time but seriously? What’s the deal? I’ve met a lot of cool people during my time at work so I appreciate their effort. I’m just wondering if it’s part of their job requirements or if it’s something else. I guess I’ll find out soon.

Pub Club this week should be awesome. It’s a going-away gathering for everyone going abroad this fall. We’re having it at one of my favorite bars: a Japanese izakaya downtown. Everything is fried and tasty. How can I not like it?

I’m excited for my friends but so sad! Some of my very best friends will be gone for four months. If I had time off, I’d go visit them in Spain, Shanghai and Hong Kong. It will be weird not having them around but seriously? I’ll be fine. We’ll still have two more quarters together before it’s time to get real jobs and start paying back loans.

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Tonight I met my winter quarter team for dinner and drinks. Even though our quarter ended in early March, it has taken us five months to find time to meet again as a team. We had a wonderful homemade curry dinner plus dessert. I had no idea how much I missed my friends until we were all gathered together again dishing about our internships and lamenting the loss of Kien to Shanghai for the fall quarter. Coming together at the end of a short summer made me realize how short our stint in grad school really is. At the end of fall quarter last year we all cringed at the thought of having five more just like it. Now I cringe at the thought of being done in less than a year! I have a lot to do and not much time left. If I want time to do it all and have time to play I’d better learn to survive without sleep.

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Today is Danny and my one-year wedding anniversary. It’s kind of strange to think that we’ve been married for a year. It doesn’t seem that long and yet it seems like a while since we’ve been living together for nearly four years anyway.

He and I don’t really do much in terms of traditional events. We had a small, non-traditional wedding. We don’t give each other extravagent gifts. Birthdays are special but other holidays are mentioned but not really observed.

For our anniversary this year, he made us reservations at ZTejas in Bellevue. This restaurant started in Austin and was where I had my 26th birthday party. I was really happy and surprised to find one in Bellevue and I’ve been bugging Danny to take me there. He surprised me by making the reservations and telling me we had a date on Saturday. I was thrilled. Not only did we have nice dinner plans but it was at one of my favorite places.

ZTejas did not disappoint. I had a REAL margarita and Danny got some real chips and queso. Everybody wins!

On a related note, I was talking to one of my classmates from Korea yesterday when we had this conversation.

Me: This weekend is my anniversary. Danny is so sweet. He’s made plans and he’s taking me out.

Classmate: Wow, you’ve been married for a year? So it is going well?

Me: Yes. Danny is so sweet. He never gets mad at me even when I steal his keys.

Classmate: You steal his keys?

Me: Yes, I forget that I have my keys in my backpack so I accidentally grab his. When he doesn’t have his keys he can’t leave the house. I feel so bad when I do it but he never gets mad at me.

Classmate: He never gets mad at you? Wow, he is really nice. You are a very bad wife.

Me: Yes, sometimes I am a very bad wife.

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I’ve been a slacker lately. Well, I really haven’t been slacking in life, but I have been blog-slacking. I’ve been busy, but it has been self-inflicted busy-ness. I’m beginning a 3-day weekend and I’m finally catching up on sleeping eating, more sleeping, and on getting my bearings in general.

Last weekend was UW admit weekend. All of the full-time admits who have or have not yet accepted a slot came to campus for three days of wining, dining, and getting overloaded on MBA info. I was part of the madness. As the incoming VP of Program Development, I work with the MBA Ambassador coordinator and the Admissions Office to assist visiting admits while they’re on campus. My duties are flexible, but it boils down to answering any and every question related to the program, the workload, and living in Seattle. Since I’ve only been in Seattle since August, I still have a lot to learn. I think I did provide some useful info to folks who will be moving to the area this summer.

The rest of my admit weekend duties involved schmoozing. I schmoozed at pub club on Thursday night. I schmoozed at the Friday TG after class and I schmoozed from 9am until 4pm on Saturday when Brooke, our MBA Ambassador coordinator and I took the admits on an outing to Bainbridge Island. After “schmoozing” until late at night on Friday, the 9am roll call was a bit early. We took about 12 students downtown and then to the ferry terminal. Even though a lot of our admits are local they still turned up for the Seattle sight-seeing. The weather was fantastic which made the ferry ride even better than expected. We stopped over in Winslow for an hour to wander around, shop, and grab some pre-lunch ice cream at a very good ice cream parlor. After that, we returned to Seattle where we reconvened for lunch at the Columbia Tower Club.

After three days of schmoozing, I was pooped. I got home around 4 and slept for four hours. I planned to work on my take-home accounting midterm but it just didn’t happen. The next day, I had Danny drop me off at the library when it opened and I plowed through my accounting and Qmeth assignments. Sunday wasn’t fun but it was productive. Now that midterms are over I can just sit, blog, and relax.

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I just got my vacation photos off the camera and here’s a little “proof of procrastination” from two weeks ago. This is Boris desperately seeking attention.

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