Not much new to report over the past few days. My internship starts on Monday, and speaking of that, I have to go downtown today for a drug test. This will be a new experience. There is definitely a certain degree of humiliation in just being required to do something so......well, humiliating. I mean I understand that it's required for everyone and all, but still - one definitely feels degraded in some way when you're told you have to go and pee in a cup so that they can make sure you're not on pot or Lord knows what else. Honestly. Apparently, though, this is common practice even for the biggest service-sector companies. I guess it's just a sad testament to the times.
Yesterday, though, was a good day. I had the car for the day while mom was at work, so I spent a couple hours reading at Starbucks. It was so nice to be able to sit there with a book and coffee and not have anything else hanging over my head - no assignments to work on, no papers to write, no projects to complete. I'll do more of the same later today and hopefully finish this great book on the Cold War that I'm currently reading.
Today, aside from this stupid drug test, I plan on working on my thesis abstract and also maybe my application for the Bundestag scholarship program. We'll see. I only have a few more days of freedom before I'm going to be working all day, so I'm trying to get my veg on while I still can.
I move into the new apartment on Friday. Very excited. The weekend will no doubt be spent re-discovering downtown Seattle as well as our neighborhood in lower Queen Anne.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
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Hah! There would be no way that I would ever need to take a drug test for work. I doubt you'd be using your computer had it not been for the aid of drugs (if not just in the 1970s/80s).
just sayin'.
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