A Little Life Update

i thought i'd give a lil update on my life for the next couple of months so people won't wonder why i'm out of commission. Sorry if i haven't returned calls or written back to emails - the last couple of weeks of finals, graduation, moving and family visits has just left me insane and probably not very fun to chat with.

Yes - i have graduated. I am now a full-fledged working adult once again. boo. hiss. i'm not over it yet.

This week, i'm going to be flying back to LA to visit the fam and then to the bay area to finalize all my work stuff, like fingerprinting and TB shots. Hey - i'll be at a school district. That's what they do. For those of you who don't know, I'm going to be a Fellow for The Broad Residency in Urban Education for the next two years in Oakland. The program places us with the management team of large urban school districts across the country to work on different strategic initiatives involving things like operations, budgeting, performance metrics, etc. I'm thrilled and lucky to have gotten the opportunity to do this - it's exactly what i wanted - education, strategy, business. And my particular role involves standardizing what defines success at the 158 schools in Oakland but also working with the parents and community organizers to get there. I had to go through three rounds of interviews including two brutal 12-hour interviews involving group exercises and critique, reading a 40-page case and over 12 one-on-one interviews. wish me luck - here's to believing it was worth it!

After the district goes through all the paperwork to confirm i am not a criminal, i will be celebrating my boy toy's birthday at the end of June (happy bday shout out to dodger, yo! he just LOVES it when i talk like that) and then flying to Morocco for three weeks. It'll be my first time to Africa and it will be an all-girls' trip. Exciting!

I'll be back to the bay area and starting work by August 1st and i can't wait to hang out with my bay area buddies again - don't forget about me! End of August i'll be making one last trip for the year to Egypt for a week with dodger and about 24 other people as part of a kellogg thing. can't wait for the magic carpet ride...

anyway, that's all for now. can't wait to chat with folks soon!