how sweet it is

i am going to miss the student life a lot. a replay of the last twenty-four hours reminds me just how sweet it is:

• went to Pete Miller's last night - a local bar for a friend's birthday. Bumped into 10 or so more friends there coincidentally. so nice. good friends.
• went on to The Keg (yes, that's what it's called) for a performance by a couple of classmates who are in a band called the Rocket Pockets. Bumped into a gazillion other people i know. my boyfriend was a guest bartender there that night for a Special Olympics fundraiser (NOT as fancy as it sounds) and had on the perfect attire - an Afro wig. In order for them to maximize the bar's use of him, i told about 20 of his friends to order the most complicated drinks possible during his shift. worked like a charm. ;)
• went to go find food after a night at the bars, only to find that at 2:30 am, most things around this quaint town are closed. off to bed - no class on Wednesdays anyway.
• woke up after a good 7 hours of sleep to head over to brunch and book club meeting. it's a group of good girlfriends and we read all the business books that we always say we should get around to reading (The World is Flat, Blink, etc) and talk about it over brunch. you can call me a geek, but what are you doing on your Wednesday mornings/ afternoons?? not having a denver omelette discussing how the world is becoming more globalized i bet. yeah, thought so.
• dentist appt in the middle of the day - not the highlight, but it's still not work...
• it's the afternoon now. nice and sunny outside. nice time to meet with a couple more friends at a cafe to go over our plans this summer to travel to Morocco for three weeks. life is good. especially with iced chai lattes.
• go home, think about a nap and instead decide to do some work for the board i sit on as part of a Board Fellows program at school and then check email (i don't care what people say, email is work to me!)
• decide to cook dinner tonight (beef stew - chinese style, mabo tofu, soup, kale) and watch the latest episode of Lost (it's sooo good. and why does Kate always look so fresh and clean?)
• i realize i don't have any class tomorrow either. hmm, another free day. what to do...

This may seem boring to you, but as my last 9 weeks here start to dwindle down quickly, i realize that every Wednesday come this fall, i will definitely not have the luxury of doing most of these things, if any, when i'm working again. I mean, i do want to work again. don't get me wrong. in the sense that i'll be doing something real again that effects more people than just myself or a group project in a class. that will be gratifying. but i'm not gonna lie - life's pretty good right now.

just soaking in the sun and thinking about Morocco...