May 18 2009
Night Owl
It is 4:25 in the morning. I am sitting at a table at Sizizis, the new 24 hour coffee and tea shop in downtown Olympia. The coffee I drank several hours ago to keep me awake is losing its effect. I come here for the atmosphere, the delicious beverages, and because I can concentrate on my work. And as Week 8 is upon me, I am faced with a daunting amount of work to do (I just finished writing a research paper, and that is just the icing on the work-cake). But as I sit here and think how much I have to do in the next few hours, days, and weeks, I realize how “college” this all feels. I am also surprised that after an entire school year, I still take so much pride in doing my work thoroughly; I attribute it my work ethic evolving to mesh with Evergreen’s academic structure. I have so much control over what I am doing here, and so I am my taskmaster and my toughest critic.
Soon, I will walk home—the warm days have yielded surprising warm nights. I had an incredible weekend, and now I have an incredibly busy week to look forward to, but it’s to be expected. I am enjoying spring, the sunshine, watching the snow slowly melting on Mt. Rainier, and the late nights and Sizizis. Evergreen and Olympia harbor inexhaustible opportunities for things to do, and thus, I’m exhausted. But I know someday soon I’ll finish up my work and have the summer to relax.
Hmmmmmm…. I’m pretty sure I’m going to watch the sunrise.
One response so far
Hello Cameron!
First, I enjoy your blog! I started reading it earlier this year but then due to limited interent access, had to catch up recently on it and the others. Hope you put up pictures of the shed!
I am going to be attending Evergreen in the fall (yay!) after taking a year off and doing an organic farming internship in Hawaii this past fall…I really enjoy the blogs and was wondering if you could tell me who I would contact about the possiblility of doing one next year. I’d love to share with people what it will be like being a freshman after taking a year off; I know it will be great and I can’t wait to start.
May your workload shrink faster than your ability to concentrate this week! Kudos for 24 hours coffee shops.
Happy day!
Elissa from Austin, Texas