Seventh inning stretch

So I have about two weeks left here. Today is my last day at my internship. I will miss it and I have learned a lot working at the Washingtonian but I am looking forward to sleeping in, wearing sweats, and not sitting at a desk in front of a computer for eight hours. But I will miss my bus-ride every morning, wedding cake tastings every Thursday, hearing the latests news on restaurants, bars, and entertainment and being able to go to events.

I have started to work on my Term paper that is due next Friday. I am researching the 1996 catastrophic Everest summit, highlighted in Jon Krakauer's book "Into Thin Air" and the controversies that followed after the article and book was published.

I am also thinking about doing a Master Cleanse otherwise known as the Lemonade Diet. My diet in D.C. has been quite different from back home, fresh fruits and veggies are not only more expensive but harder to get since I can't hop in a car and go to a grocery store, I have to spend an hour and a half round trip on the metro to go to Whole Foods if I want quality veggies. So! in the last two weeks here, I am going to try and attempt to follow a ten day cleanse starting Monday as I spend the next three days in preparation (limiting processed foods, dairy and meat and transitioning my body to be able to only intake fruits and veggies--vegan diet) I hope to end on the 29th and then resume a post-cleanse diet, vegan going towards vegetarian.

I did a similar cleanse a year and a half ago but it was only a five day cleanse--I couldn't handle the ten at the time since I performed it the second week into my Fall semester.

So we will see how it goes...

One week exactly until Kiki (my sister!) gets here! I am really excited to take here and show here around the city!

20 more days

I had a fun Easter weekend. Went to a Good Friday service with one of my roomies to the church I have been going to here. Then Saturday I went rock climbing up in Rockville, and Sunday had a great Easter with the roomies and friends ate a huge lunch which everybody helped prepare ( I made a chocolate cake and a chocolate ginger cake as well as helped with one of my roomies make homemade mashed potatoes). In between I did a lot of reading for my term paper I have due, and some other homework.

I only have three more weeks left, this week is the last week of my internship, but I'm looking forward to starting to get some projects planned with the park service.

I'll be pretty busy the next couple of weeks, and can't wait until my sister comes to visit in less than two weeks!

NPS

So, about a month ago, I went to this environmental film fest and I went to one of the screenings at American University and in the small room I was in, there was a panel of speakers, one women worked for National Geographic, the other was a student premiering a film, and the other gentleman was a director/producer for the National Park Service. He described to the audience what he did, which was go around and film for the park service in different parks. During intermission I went outside the room to where he was and talked to him. I really was interested in what he does and wanted to find out how I could possibly get started with something like that but with photography/writing. So we chatted it up for a bit and then he told me to send some photos of nature/wilderness and he would see what he could do. So I was pretty excited but didn't have my hopes up just because I didn't want to be disappointed if nothing came out of it. So, about a week and a half ago I received an email from another official in the park service and he wanted to set something up with me. He was very impressed with my photos and wanted to meet up to talk about what we could possible do. So, last Thursday I met up with him after work and we talked about the possibilities. This summer, I will pretty much be working for the park service, going around to Yosemite, Kings Canyon, J Tree, Mojave, and all the main wilderness throughout the west, take photos, write articles, and create more content for the park service use. I'm really excited because not only have I wanted to land a job in the department of Interior (and it is really hard to get in, you either have to have legacy or know someone pretty much) but this will pretty much secure me a career position after college if I still want to do this!!!

So excited...more to come on the details.

I will still be coming back home in 25 days! But I will most likely be coming back out here for a month to do some work for the Park Service at the headquarters which is in D.C.

SOOOO excited, I'm really glad I went to that film event because if I didn't this wouldn't have happened!!!