The Intern Diaries Week 2~

This has been one of those weeks I feel has gone by both extremely fast and incredibly slow. If you are unfamiliar with this feeling, time tends to go by in this fashion when my mind is impacted by a lot of new things in a different environment.

Exhibit A-this guy was stalking me at the park the other day-one odd duck :/

Here's what I like to call my odd-duck-out-of-water theory-
While we imagine time going on in a somewhat linear way, our brain is taking in thousands of stimuli that compile the moments in our day. When we fall into a routine, we don't always notice these "distractions" that cause us to feel a variety of emotions from joy to sorrow. Now put in a new environment, my brain is being bombard by an array of new things-fabulous things- but unfamiliar nonetheless and has therefore switched to ADD kid on a roller coaster mode....trust me if there were no drops and hills and it was all flat we wouldn't experience such intense fear...but then again it wouldn't experience any joy either and that's never any fun :D

So after my philosophical rant about how I believe our brains function-let me get down to the good stuff-this whole "working" thing.

In Sarah's ideal happy bubble what I'm doing is not really work. I get to write and collect information about a dance Academy, in a new awesomely built dance theatre, which features a company that will be going...to the Olympics!

Unfortunately, that bubble never really stood a chance, and because of the roller coaster mind effect I explained above, the real work has been adjusting to the ride. Some parts are rather mundane like learning to use time efficiently and sit in a desk for long periods of time (I think I'm getting better, but I'm seriously thinking about switching out my chair for a one of those stationary bikes :) Other parts, exploring Dallas and meeting new people, are both exciting and kind of scary at first.

After going to a dance class and running into a friend from TCU and randomly meeting up with a long lost camp friend at yoga I'm discovering that sometimes when you seem to be headed down hill fast, life throws you a loop.

So on those days when I almost get demolished by an angry Texas on the freeway, or I feel like I don't have a clue what I'm doing--- I seriously thought of buying this----

I'm starting to feel the ease of the coaster and learn how to windsurf-another wonderful analogy of mine. You can never go anywhere if you freak out and drop your sail when the winds get rough. Relax and feel the wind, let it guide you instead of trying to fight it. (I learned this after spending the majority of my lesson in the water).