planning, procrastination, postcards, and food?

Recently I've been caught up in a storm of planning, procrastinating, and postcard writing. This cycle ends up being really stressful, because I make lists, and get overwhelmed by the amount of responsibility and stuff I have to get done, so then I retreat into my mildly warm room and watch movies. I am simultaneously trying to plan the rest of the semester in terms of readings, final papers and projects, any travel I want to do before I leave, and I'm also trying to figure out summer plans.

I currently have a folder on my computer labeled 'summer.' It has various applications, my resume, and that's about it. I know that my summer starts on June 4, ends on August 16, and that I want to be in L.A. for the majority of the intervening weeks. I got an email last night that had the subject "Update on Affordable Housing Internship Program." That sounded vaguely like a polite heading for a rejection letter, so I didn't want to open it. When I did, it said something like, "we'll get back to you by the end of next week. We thank you for your patience as we know you're trying to figure out your summer (read: life) plans." I guess it was nice that they gave us a time frame, but the suspense is killing me.

I'm also expected to be doing research and work on my final papers/projects. In addition to all of the other regular assignments that I've barely been keeping up on. Oh well, I will just have to start using Fridays to get work done. And actually completing items on my To Do Lists. The rain that has recently returned to Amsterdam is not encouraging me to get any of this work done.

It's funny--when I wish I had more time, I want to be reading up on food, farming, agriculture, all of those things that make me want to grow vegetables. Some sites that I've been snooping around recently are: civil eats and retrovore. I also like to look at epicurious and foodtv. I guess that a lot of stuff has been happening at Oxy while I've been away. F.E.A.S.T. and the Cafe Norris. F.E.A.S.T. seems to be a gardening type thing, and according to the Oxy digest, they got land, which is something I tried to do last semester to start a community garden. I'm glad that someone finally made progress. Cafe Norris is this thing that some kids started on Saturday nights. They cook a three-course meal from farmer's market goodies for like 10 or 15 dollars. It sounds really neat. I'm really excited to get back to school and see what's going on.

I have to get back to that whole school work, class, homework thing.