hi, it's me!

haven't updated in 3-ish weeks...oops! it's a gloomy rainy morning here in Boston, though tomorrow it's in the mid-50s and partly cloudy so I can't complain too much.

the weekend was really fun, starting with Deutsches Essen on Friday night at Bryan and Peter's. for no particular reason we had planned an evening of German food and drink and finally made it happen. the menu included 3 types of sausages, kraut, goulash, the German equivalent of mizeria, kartoffelpuffen, pickles, a pate with pumpernickel, and then some kinder products and black forest cake for dessert. for trinken we started with some Riesling and then moved onto 4 different german beers. seht gut! it was a nice chill evening with good friends, and also the first opportunity for us to meet matt's new bf/lp/significant other. i think the evening was largely a success, despite the consumption of some 30,000 calories. i can't wait to plan the next international evening! reminded me of our linguistics international food & drink nights :*-(

saturday was mel and my 'make your own pizza party' with an array of doughs and toppings for everyone to choose from. i made a standard red sangria and then a white peach one, both of which came out well methinks. it was quite the mix of people, including lauren's friend from home who is at bc law, and melanie's most recent lover, also of bc law. it was one of those drink since 5pm days and maintain a nice buzz turned end-of-the-night 180 to blackout while playing foosball at 'Our House', but all in all it was a success.

I really needed a fun weekend after a hellish week full of work. i didn't go to the gym at all on account of having papers/projects due for every class and even a project for my job. i am proud of my handling it, particularly my catalan/spanish phonology paper where i managed to track down a bunch of Catalan-speakers to record. one of them was from andorra and apparently knows the head of the fulbright committee there. he told me that if i had any questions he could ask said man. ummm....how about if i am getting the fulbright?!!? the wait continues to kill me, so i won't bother getting into that.

it's funny how the semester is almost over - april is already more or less booked between going home for easter, the weekend in DC, then lou's visit the weekend after. crazy! with the end of april also comes the end of classes - i'm halfway done with my Master's? weeeiiiiird. now i just need to figure out where i'm living for the summer and where i'm working. i've applied for an ESL job at Simmons College but have yet to hear back from them...BC posts jobs on April 1st, so hopefully I can work in the Slavic Department again or some other crap like that. We'll see!

This week is looking pretty low key. I agreed to help a professor with a talk on Thursday of course not realizing that I had class during it. That seems to be the only drama.