Sandy and I have always talked about how cool it would be to go to SXSW, being the big city advertising girls we are! I'd never been to Austin before, and she was living there while finishing school. Although SXSW this year was smack dab in the middle of my last finals of college, ever, I took it as a challenge to do it all.
Ok, I haven't touched this blog for months - partially due to the whole "figure out my post-grad life" thing and also because I've just been frickin' busy. I promise that I'll do a good recap of the several past adventures life has taken me over the next few days.
So, life update! I'm in NYC interning at the Weber Shandwick Global HQ, which didn't feel like that big of a deal until 3 days ago (my first day). Every day since Monday, there's been a moment where it just kind of hit me again, like, "wow this company is actually so huge" or "I've seen that before...we did that???" - and the people here are still so personable, easygoing, and chill. I feel like I've been running around nonstop since I arrived here - hitting Glossier and Uniqlo in SoHo for makeup essentials and socks (since I stupidly only packed 1 pair??? @self, WHY?), meeting high school friends in Chinatown for dim sum, stocking up at Trader Joe's before the workweek. Let me tell you about this Trader Joe's, by the way. They have this whole system separating everyone into two separate lines, and then 3 separate color-coded lines as you approach the registers. Then there are like, 30 different check out spots with different flags waving when they open, and employees to usher customers toward the next open spot. It's nuts. And the interior of the Brooklyn Heights Trader Joe's is a stunning 20-foot ceiling situation with chandelier lights. Think Grand Central downsized by 75% , and then stocked with like, fresh produce, wine, and cheese. I still can't get over how insanely different it is from the Goleta Trader Joe's near school. And speaking of school, I feel extremely fortunate to have finished my undergraduate career back in March. It made things easier with my internship program schedule, which started during week 8 of the quarter system (yikes), so I wouldn't have been able to start on time if it weren't for good timing! I will be flying back for my commencement ceremony in a week and a half, though. Excited to hang out with my college friends one last time before we start our "real adult lives," but not excited for that red-eye flight I'm taking straight to work the following Monday. We'll see if I survive. I'll tune in with some more about my life since...January - jeez, it's been awhile. But I've done a bunch of awesome things from visiting Sandy in Austin for SXSW to hanging out/finding shows in LA to exploring Joshua Tree National Park. It was great being able to spend time with my family and friends from home before this whole NYC thing, and I miss them all so much already. Come back soon! If my last night of 2015 (stranded without housing after landing in Scotland with Connie) and first day of 2016 (deliriously checking myself into a hotel in Paris and knocking out until dark) weren't precursors for the way this year would play out, I don't know what were.
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