Weekend Update

Hi all,

This week went by way too fast. We are already well into the first week of May; the sun sets past 8p.m.; and the class of 2008 at UW graduates in little over a month–which means the countdown to my own graduation begins very shortly. I can’t believe either of these three things. The year is going by so fast. I start my new job (still with the bank) on Tuesday. I am so grateful and thankful for the opportunity, as it was completely unexpected and I will do a great job.

It was a rare yet beautiful day in Seattle today. All is going well, but I have lots of homework to do. Papers to write; museums to visit; research to do; and a midterm to take tomorrow–though I think I am pretty set for a 4.0 on that one. I am starting to turn a new page in the discipline of my life. Tomorrow I plan to start running at 5a.m.; make my own breakfast and lunch; get into shape. We’ll see how it works.

If I hadn’t told you already, I am learning Chinese and I am pleased with the progress I am making. It is not nearly as inaccessible a language as once I thought, but I still think that Romance languages, owing to their Latin alphabet, are far superior–logically speaking–to the ideogram-based Asian languages.

I’m pretty bummed the Rockets lost YET ANOTHER playoff series after making the second-longest winning streak in the history of the NBA. They were simply out-played, badly matched, and badly seeded. The Rockets had a real good shot at the #1 seed this year and that was their own doing in not getting it.