The .Plan

Somehow I managed to make it through the winter without getting too burned out. For most interns, burnout peaks in January or February.

Now it has caught up to me.

I need a vacation.

Only 10 weeks. Ten weeks until this:

You head out to Point Lobos State Reserve when it opens at 9 a.m. — partly because the rangers go to a “one-in, one-out” policy once the 250 or so parking spaces fill up, partly because the light is better.

“I can’t even describe the color the water was this morning,” said reserve docent Patty Oglietti. “There is no name for that shade of blue.”…

You give yourself time to head south to Garrapata State Park, where rocks and water do astounding things on two miles of often-empty beach, or you head to Big Sur beyond that.
–Christopher Reynolds, “A view of Weston country in Carmel, California”, Los Angeles Times, April 13, 2007

More fascinating stuff from John Tierney. Look who’s at the bottom of the dating hierarchy:

African-American women said yes about 30 percent less often to Hispanic men [i.e., were less willing to see Hispanic men again]; about 45 percent less often to white men; about 65 percent less often to Asian men.

White women said yes about 30 percent less often to black or Hispanic men, and about 65 percent less often to Asian men.

Hispanic women said yes about 20 percent less often to black or white men, and 50 percent less often to Asian men.

Asian women didn’t discriminate much by race (except for showing a very slight preference for Asian men over black or Hispanic men).
–Single Female Seeking Same-Race Male, TierneyLab@NYT, April 13, 2007