Winding down.

Fail at this consistent blogging thing.  Oh well.  


The semester is winding down rapidly, I'm all done with final exams and it is just these two pesky term papers standing between me and a week-long cruise in Mediterranean.  In spite of some all-nighters ahead of me...I'm not complaining a bit.


I'm pretty pumped for this cruising thing in general, and since I've never been on one before I guess I'll find out if boats are my thing.  I'm very very prone to motion sickness on buses and trains, but I have been told the boat is so huge there's no sea-sicknessy feeling? I have also been told the 24/7 buffet food is out of control, so at least if I come back 10 pounds heavier, I'll come back 10 pounds heavier and TAN.  I'm taking my sneakers for all this active fun they say they have on board so maybe I won't abandon healthy habits altogether.  The cruise is going to Croatia, Greece, and Turkey, which is super duper exciting because those are places I want to go but in a friendly pre-organized kind -of way.  Yayyyy.


It has been beautifulllll weather in Florence lately, getting just sunny and warm enough to lay out and tan by the Arno.  I've got a couple spots I like for this purpose.  If you can deal with old guys in little bathing suits being kind of close to you, but overall minding their own business, it's a pretty good time.  I've also been spending a lot of time outdoors increasing my running mileage a little each week, which is a little complicated by massive amounts of tourists close to the city center, but once you get a bit down river it is rather nice to just cruise along.  My latest route gets me away from the city center, through this massive shady park, to a little place with carnival rides at the end.  It's nice.  I like.  I also like running by the American consulate because I think the army guys on guard outside are pretty cute.  But I digress.


Even though the semester is winding down, there's still a lot of work ahead.  I start my internship at the European University Institute next week, and I've got a lot of work to do on a portfolio of lecture write-ups and such.  Not to mention a research symposium I have to polish up one of my papers for, and a Council of Ministers simulation I have to do some research for.  By the way, I am Austria in the simulation.  What's up.


Other than that, it's life as usual.  Need to expand my job hunt and job application volume.  Hire me?