Anna: Sunday, the preliminary Monday

Short update. My life is schoolschoolschool a little MUN here and there, and then more school. Exciting news though, Invisible Children is coming to campus thanks to yours truly! Yay for political and humanitarian awareness. My next project is a Girl Effect event

(www.girleffect.org)

but that one is much more obscure as to what exactly I will do for it. Eh.

The rainy weather is officially here and I cannot wait until I have enough time to curl up in my favorite downtown coffee shops with Fatima Bhutto's memoir Songs of Blood and Sword. I met her briefly when she gave a reading at Powell's and she is beautiful. She instantly became a rolemodel for me, and she signed her book for me! Squee!! My first autographed copy of a publication!

I am content. Much more blocked off from life than I appreciate, but I'm not clawing my walls in desperation or sobbing on my bathroom floor. Its progress. I resolved at the beginning of 2010 that I would not waste a second of life or breathe to anxiety or depression. Yes. I like the wetness of the rain seeping into my bones and the taste of coffee at six in the evening as I gear up for another all-nighter.

Once-a-week tango equals love. I was going to go to a huge milonga this weekend but....my professors had other plans. In other news, I am creating a new blog devoted to Portland. This will be pictures, writings inspired by my wanderings, stories people tell me. I have never loved a place as much as I love it here, so I find it only natural that I pay tribute to it in my small way. Follow it if you want. Don't if you don't want.

I need a job. I can't find any decent postcards. I saw a dead rat on the street earlier this week. Fridays have become my Saturdays, Saturdays my Sundays, and Sundays my preliminary Mondays. I miss you, friends. Much love.