yvette blogs more often than i do

so as the clash would say, this weekend totally rocked the casbah. on friday i found out that i got an internship at the league of conservation voters. it's a lobbyist group that pushes pro-environment legislation, which heck sounds a lot better than that lobbyist group i interviewed with up in greenbelt last week who worked for insurance groups. scary!!! i'm sure it will comprise a lot of paper-pushing but hopefully i can do some good so that we can avoid dying in our own filth and pollution. the good news is that it's paid so it will help defray some of the expenses of living in washington (er, college park) over the summer, but the bad news is that it starts may 27 which hardly leaves me with a summer at all!! luckily linda, allan and gina are all planning on coming to visit me in august, and at least most of the friends i've made in college are local (pammy, monica, lisa, christina, and obviously the crew i'm living with in college park). so in short, this summer is going to be kickass. :)

saturday was more interesting than awesome, i would say. we went to this semi-sketch mexican restaurant/lounge off the u st. metro where more guys outwardly hit on me than i think have ever before in my life. then this guy who was in yvette's spanish class last semester showed up shit-faced, drank $40 worth of alcohol and then bailed. the waiter then tried to stick yvette w/ the bill, but obviously she wasn't going to accept that shit so she called this guy back and he came back, but he still refused to pay. some people said that he then tried to push yvette down the stairs but i don't think that really happened, but they got into a big fight nevertheless. basically this all culminated w/ ras (one of the 4 managers i had while at the bou) took him outside and beat the shit out of him. he ripped her shirt, but she got him a lot worse: by the end of it all, he was gushing blood out of his head. (when yvette & i swung by on sat. morning to thank the restaurateurs & waitstaff, they told us that they saw him at 4 a.m. stumbling up & down w st. still gushing blood.) yvette talked on the phone w/ him fri. night after we got back to college park (i slept over because jared's girlfriend is visiting from ft lauderdale... lol) and he basically threatened her, saying that she'd "better watch out" when on campus. which is total bullshit, because not only is the law on her side but even someone as scrawny as i could easily take this guy down in a heartbeat. through and through, though, the night was a lot of fun, the restaurant served some pretty delicious food/drinks and even though i spent way too much $$$ it was worth it.

saturday night was also fun as well since we were celebrating pammy's birthday. we went to this yummy asian restaurant near farragut square even though i was having pretty bad allergies around that time. then we partied it up in gutheridge hall, where i hung out w/ this chick katy who's in my linguistics discussion section. basically, last week the rest of her discussion gave her flack for aspiring to be a housewife. shouldn't feminism be about choice??? it seems to me that, by telling women that they "have to" or "ought to" be career women is merely adjusting socially-prescribed, gender-based roles in society. i'm glad i stuck up for her in discussion, as it turns out that this girl katy is actually really cool. she's getting married at the end of may!!! best of luck to her.

but enough about her: today, i got a zipcar and drove pammy, monica and becca to tysons corner where she made 2 adorable "babies" at build-a-bear!!! she is already completely emotionally attached to them both. i'm actually quite proud of myself for not dying while driving on the east coast, but as it turns out it's even EASIER to drive here than back home, especially on the highways (what we call "freeways") since the exit signs advertise the name of the town or major attraction (clarendon, tysons corner, etc.) instad of the name of the overlapping road like in california (hampshire road, janss road, you get the idea). the notion of that will forever fascinate me. i was also a little late returning the zipcar but they waived the penalty fee since there were road blockages meaning it took me FOREVER to find where my car was parked in the 1st place (they moved it since the lot it's usually kept in was blocked off because of world bank meetings). i'm actually thus far enthralled with my zipcar membership and wish i had more opportunities to use it. :(

tomorrow is the 13th to last day of school. fortunately, because i have free time from quitting the bou i only have one paper left to write. but i NEED to do well on these final exams to make up for my lackluster midterm grades (b+, b+, b-, and c+)!!

realizations over this weekend regarding i am like how i was in high school:
1. i spend a significantly larger amount of money on my friends/family members for their birthdays than i do in myself in general.
2. i am a member of multiple cliques; this is how so many people know me. (the difference is that, now, i don't think this is such a bad thing.)

finally, my classes for next semester:
1. international politics
2. environmental policy (i guess this will go well w/ my internship, lol)
3. death & dying (special topics course for my sociology minor)
4. advanced spanish grammar
5. something about evolution & primates that i need for my science requirement, but i don't really remember because i'm tired :(