Oh goodness there's so much going on all of a sudden. Where to start? Well, I'm definitely either joining the Philadelphia Rotaract Club (I'll be going to a meeting next Tues) or starting one up at my school. After contacting the Philly Rotaract Club president, he directed me to the District Rotaract Chair. She's totally enthusiastic about helping me out, and had actually a few weeks before talked to my school's community service office about staring a Rotaract Club. And then tonight I get an email from my school's temporary athletic director offering his support because he's in the District Rotaract chair's committee, and he's president-elect of the local Ardmore Rotary Club. He offered to go through the student files and help me identify previous Interactors, Rotary award winners, Youth Exchange students, etc. Ah, craziness!

I've been thinking about Rotaract ever since I got to Haverford over a year ago, but I never did anything about it because of my school's umbrella community service organization, and just the vastness of the project. I didn't think I could tackle it myself and didn't really want to because I was still getting situated here. But after attending the first board meeting of Laura's Columbia Rotaract, I got all inspired with that good ol' Rotary passion. Yeah, all you DC-ers know what I'm talking about. It's that old, familiar flame. And it rocks =]. So that's where I am now with Rotaract. Don't get too excited; things are really slow now. I don't even know what I'm doing in terms of involvement. I'm just looking into both ideas right now and getting as much info as I can. But oh man it feels good to be back in the game of Rotary. Heh.

And more craziness...I'm applying for a summer job now. Yeah seriously. The application deadline is November 1st. It requires me to stay on the East Coast for 6 weeks, but the job looks amazing, and it pays pretty well too. Aaaaand my friend (who worked with this program a year ago) recommends me, then that totally ups my chances. If I get it, which I seriously hope I do, I might or might not be spending my entire summer here in the East. The job is only for 6 weeks so ideally I'd like to get a brief internship/job to hold me down for the other 6 weeks. Whether that would be here or back home, I dunno yet. I haven't had time to think too much on the subject. Dang, I can't believe I'm applying for a summer job in October.

Ok one last bit of craziness. My boss at CPGC (Center for Peace and Global Citizenship) might be taking me on board for this project he's doing about developing an early-warning and early-response system in Sri Lanka. He's submitting a book proposal for a book he and a couple others have written about the topic, and he says that while he's traveling around he needs someone back at "home base" helping him with the project. Helping him in what way, I don't know but we'll see how things develop.

Why everything chooses to happen at once, I have no idea. And why I choose to spend 20 minutes blogging about this at 2:30am, I also have no idea. I think I make stupid decisions sometimes. Oh well, live and learn. But of course I won't learn and the next time I blog will be at like 3am or something.

My 20-pg paper is going well. I think. I know what I'm doing now, which is always a good sign. I feel like I have a handle on it. Plus, I got an extension, so I'm not under as much pressure. Although I'm trying to make myself finish it before Thanksgiving.

Anyways. It's late. I have to study for a Chinese midterm.