flowers & chocolate, oh my

Ahh, the much anticipated update. Life has been hectic, mainly due to a newly-revised set of priorities these days:

1. find internship
2. spend time with STM
3. don't get called on in hellishly difficult but intensely fascinating and worthwhile international management course
4. stop being sick all the time

This month has been great because I got to see AV, on her way across the country to establish new roots! One evening in Austin is never enough time to adequately represent this fine city, but we did our best, making the obligatory stop at a hallowed Real World Austin spot. If only I hadn't been recovering from what was either a bacterial stomach bug, a virus or food poisoning. What good is dating a doctor when he can't even properly diagnose you, let alone prescribe you drugs??

Speaking of - Valentine's Day was, contrary to popular belief, pretty amazing. I was the lucky recipient of day-before-V-Day roses (nearly a week later, they still look decent!), a surprise 7 AM breakfast of eggs Benedict, a packed lunch ready to go in a fancy new lunchbox (chosen for maximum cheesiness), and a delicious and romantic 5 course meal that included everything from Möet to shrimp amuse-bouches to duck paté to seared scallops and strawberry-champagne sorbet.

Since then, I have been working my ass off to write two 5-page case analyses for aforementioned hard-as-balls class, write one 3-page case analysis for missing Strategic Management due to hauling my unsettled stomach to Health Services, write up an impression of my interview with a very nice applicant to Tufts and interview like nobody's business.

Finally - progress. Write-up of interview with very nice applicant, one 5-page and one 3 page case analysis? Done. Internship offer? Got that too. Not to say that I'm going to cancel all pending interviews, because I mean, really - who would turn down a final round interview in Charlotte when all expenses are being covered?

Being in b-school is niiiiice.