Digital Johnny, Real Johnny

So Much For That... Next!

Today, I put on my suit and headed to my Tuesday/Thursday internship a good hour and half late, and handed in my resignation and my key card to the building. I couldn't take it anymore; it was so boring and can only be described as a legal writing sweatshop. Not really what I had in mind and definitely not something I could have put up with for the rest of the summer.

What spurned this very un-Kristina-like move? Last night, Cody and I were talking about how he is going to join Nick Waugh's campaign for San Francisco's District 5 Supervisor (a position Matt Gonzalez currently holds but is apparently not running for again) and how I should join too, to do a little research, a little policy writing and help develop a media strategy. This sounded like an excellently fun and fulfilling plan, so I quit my internship this morning in anticipation of beginning what could be a glorious career in political media consulting. A lot of people in my major at Cal were also Political Science majors since they wanted to be political consultants, and I always thought that was silly, but since I'm pretty sour on law school at the moment, an "alternative legal career" is sounding mighty appealing.

After I left my (ex)internship, I went over to the next block to visit my old co-workers and have lunch with them and Aaron, when I somehow got convinced and chided into accepting my old manager's offer to cover for the receptionist during the first month of her maternity leave. This means that I'll now have to phase myself out of and eventually quit my paying job that I go to 3 times a week. While I'm excited about the prospect of working at FDAP again, I'm dreading telling the computer lab folks that I'm going to be quitting. I'm sure they won't be happy and I'm just not good at doing stuff like that. Standing up for myself when it's bad for others has never been my strong suit in life.

So, the entire course of my summer has seemed to shift in the last 24 hours... and although such changes usually scare me to death, it has somehow made me feel more hopeful about the summer and even my future. Now, if I can just get through "breaking up" with the lab...

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