austin update

i lived through a hurricane!

here are some interesting articles about some things completely unrelated to hurricanes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/31/opinion/31kristof.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html

i'm in a coffeeshop in austin and i just read them.

ok so... hurricane dolly came and threw down some havoc in the greater mcallen area. there was flooding (not much where i was living, but not none), power outages, trees and wires down, roofs being torn down houses, etc. it didn't hit hidalgo county as hard as it hit SPI and everything (that's what was in the news) but it still hit pretty hard. it sucked, but it's not too interesting to write about... just imagine an incredibly loud windy dark storm that lasts for a long time and everyone is calling you over. also, one of our interns, MJ, lives near SPI and she hasn't been returning anyone's phone calls or anything and that is WORRISOME. it is actually pretty bad, but i don't know what to do about it.

anyway hurricane is boring to write about. i'm done with my internship, it was a great summer. i'm so glad i came down here instead of stayed up in new york or went to do anything else. i learned a lot and it was pretty incredible, and everyone i worked with was so extra-awesome that i could hardly believe my good luck. corinna, abner, jaime, moira, laura, yessica, jayne, kyle, MJ, GENEVIEVE, ann... i'm going to miss everyone a lot! but i'm excited to get back up to the east coast and see all my friends. and also go to some awesome job interviews. today i interviewed for MADRE, a women's civil rights organization that works globally and with the UN a lot. I'd really like that. Tomorrow i'm interviewing with Amnesty International, and in the next few weeks I'll be interviewing with the Global Workers Justice Alliance, CONNECT, and a civil rights firm called Lansner and Kubitschek. there's a few more organizations i want to send my resume out to as well. i'm looking for a fall internship that won't be super stressful but that i can hopefully segue into a cool summer internship. we'll see though.

so now i'm up in austin with toni and gino and patrick. corinna and the work gang were up here as well but they left yesterday. so weird - corinna's best friend is patrick's brother, we realized that the other day. we hung out with him (chris) and his friend (christian) yesterday, they made us dinner. it was delicious. christian, i believe, has a crush on toni, which is extra cute. he wants us to go out tonight but i can't... toni and gino aren't going to either. we just discussed it. i think he's going to be getting an upsetting text message in a moment, from toni, from my phone, so taht will be confusing maybe. but i have to be prepped for my phone interview tomorrow.

also it's annoying, apparently for the student organizations i'm part of we're supposed to have a schedule of events completed and sent in by tomorrow. i have not even thought about these organizations for one second while i've been up here, because it's the friggen summer and i'm busy and the other people in the organizations are in new jersey, new york, or in one case, zimbabwe. but whatever.

so there's your update, mr. postman. check out some pictures:

hello dolly