Tuesday 2: The Dream

Canada Redeems Itself

........At this point I got tired of documenting but it went on and on and on. (in and in and in our bellies)  No, it is not a dream!

But how can five people get so much from this world???

That's right. Canada has All-you-can-eat sushi. And it was psych-department treat!
I could not be more pleased.

(Though I did experience some unprecedented eating-back pains lol.. didn't know that was a thing)



Anyway the real dream I was referring to in the title was:
The Life Outside of Work

Yes, this is the luxury that consumed the months of May 2011 through August 2012 in my own being.

What did I do with my year off?  Maintained a smattering of dispersed social lives and threw myself at every hobby I'm remotely interested in.

So it turns out I will not be joining running, climbing, singing, beatboxing, cooking, painting, being-a-hippie-in-the-desert, and french-chatting clubs while being a grad student.

What I will be doing is texting 15-year olds and then realizing I have too much work to do 8/9 of these things.

To explain the first part-- in my endeavors to find a group of music enthusiasts, I began searching on Kijiji, the Canadian version of Craigslist.  Mind you, I've never used Craigslist either, and so I really can't be blamed for chatting about my musical interests with a guy for a few hours before finding out he and his band-mates have barely reached puberty.. (but, the bassist is probably 20, so "it's cool")

Anyway, as for the not being able to whim-frolick and hobby-prance part-- apparently grad school is not the same as teetering around my parents house.
shoot.

I should mention, though, to be fair-- I have at last been socially-oriented! And to my delight, lots of awesome people in the program.
Here are my fellow international students (plus Charles)

And the social psych crew

PLUS great responsibility... means......

Great power!!!

Bam. My office.

A lot of trade-offs in this world.
Week 2: Canada for the win.