Goodbye contact lenses :)

LASIK = awesome. June 26 - probably more life-changing than my semester in India (okay not quite true but close). There's not much else to say. Dr. Boothe knows what he's doing. Less than 24 hours after surgery I was seeing like 99% as well as with contacts. And it keeps getting better. Especially after having to wear glasses for 2 weeks prior to LASIK, it feels all the more freeing.

In other news, started work at the Nordstrom Cafe in the Galleria. I had no idea there was even a restaurant there until a week and a half ago, but they have surprisingly good salads and AMAZING lemon cookies. They're like cake cookies (instead of cookie cakes) - suuuper soft with yummy lemony icing. It's a pretty fun place to work, although the cash register still confounds me at times. And having a job makes me appreciate weekends that much more :) I <3 sleeping.

New addiction to reading news from The Daily Beast. Not always the greatest, but it summarizes top news articles from different sources and puts them into a Daily Cheat Sheet that takes 10 minutes to read. So convenient.

Home at last, at least for awhile.

Five days after I got back from India, I left for Boston for a week, then NYC for 2 days, but I'm finally back for a good amount of time!

Cousins photo, taken at one of our traditional family barbecues the day after I got home. Like Karen said, I don't think I've had better chicken wings anywhere else. And the steak isn't bad either :)

Island Hopper in Boston! It was great to see the seniors again before graduation, and making $400 from Tech Reunions wasn't a bad deal either. Seeing alumni who are coming back for their 70th reunion and still talking about how much MIT has done for them is amazing on so many different levels. I'm totaly running for Gift Chair on the Alumni committee so I can choose reunion gifts :) Something to look forward to - for the 25th reunion, each class member gets a paperweight version of the brass rat. It's GINORMOUS. I can't wait (although I totally can't imagine what lives we'll all be living 25 years from now...). I spoke to alumni who majored in computer science in like the 1950's. I didn't even know computers existed back then. And one guy had been with IBM from graduation to retirement. Imagine the evolution of the computer he must have experienced/be experiencing.

Thailand Cafe in NYC! And froyo (did you know that Red Mango had tart froyo before Pinkberry did? Berryline is better though)! And shopping! And pedicures! NYC was definitely the largest shock to my system since coming back from India. Home is calm and clean and kind of boring in a relaxing way, Boston is amazing, but NYC was just like HELLO.

Except there were these super cute sculptures all over this one subway station.


Awww...

But...now I'm home! Things are still moving pretty quickly though. I met with some people from the Earth Institute about doing a summer internship from home while I was in NY. I need to finish my personal statement and get AMCAS submitted ASAP. I need a new laptop because my screen is shot. I'm considering getting LASIK? I might might MIGHT have an internship with the WHO in July if the lady would ever get back to me... If not, we might go to China to visit my grandma and make a stopover in Thailand for a week or so. Yay summer.

Aaand I still need to finish up stuff from India. Updates/pictures on our final few weeks there soon, I hope.