Cafe Victoria

• you can take Friday’s off.
• the sun wakes you up.
• you have a paper due every week.
• you are spending extra time with friends and family.
• everyone is reading Harry Potter.

FYI -We updated the wedding web page: http :// www . worch . com / wedding. (You’ll have to type the address manually, we don’t want a direct link on the web).

We will try to add more information when we can. Have a great day!

Yahoo..finished another paper..this time I feel tired. The third year of grad school has officially set in. I remember hearing from other third years that the second year was the hardest one to get through. Ahh.. I’m going to have to say the third year might be the one. We’ve got A LOT of reading and papers to write. So, if I do not sound as excited as the year before..imagine you’re on a steep hike..and you have not reached the level part yet. This year is going to feel like a long hike to the ocean. Hmm..I will keep you posted on what hike I am on. Right now, I feel like I just started the Muir Beach hike. Great view to go with a great book, just lots of questions to answer.
On a fun note: Yesterday, we saw my life long friend Christine and her Husband Quoc’s new baby. Another life long friend, Kristina came down and we joined others in celebrating Nathan’s arrival to the Do family. I am soo happy for them. Let me tell you, it is an amazing feeling when you see your elementary school playmate holding their first child.

Wow, I just realized while working on my response paper for the counseling book ‘safe people’ that it wasn’t until I was in grad school that I started to act and feel like I cannot waste time. There have been days where if I messed up or if someone else did, it would cause me to go over the edge. I would get soo frustrated. I cannot mess up, I do not have time to explain it again or fix it. I just don’t have time!

Then I thought to myself last night, what if I approached my homework, my projects at work and my relationships thinking there is always enough time to do something well?

hmm..

Yahoo! My 11^th time seeing Ani Difranco. Thanks Marta for always wanting to go and being an awesome friend! As I was driving back from Moss Beach this morning listing to Ani’s latest album Reprieve, these words stayed with me all the way home. Thanks Ani for always writing what many of us feel.

“Just show me moment that is mine
its beauty blinding and unsurpassed
make me forget every moment that went by
and left me so half-hearted
cuz I felt so half-assed.”

– Ani ‘Half-assed’

While on the path of studying Student Affairs I would:

Write papers:

• At the Sunflower Café in Sonoma Plaza.
• At the Acura dealership in Fairfield while waiting for car service.
• At Factor 5 in a spare desk across from Matthias.

Often feel:

• Overwhelm
• Excited
• Supported

Discover:

• How much I love watching people socialize and connect at cafés.
• How much I love and believe in community college students and their experience.
• How much I enjoy reading on our front porch.

Often drink and eat:

• Green and Earl Grey tea.
• Dark Chocolate

Procrastinate with:

• Doing laundry.
• Writing a blog entry for my web site…

In less then a month Sony will be releasing the hot new video game Lair for the Playstation 3. The cool part about this release is we are all connected to the makers of this fantastic “Jurassic Park in realtime” game (as Matthias Worch describes it). The talented Matthias Worch, my fiancé and his amazing artists and programmers are ready to entertain you. So..here is your six degrees of separation. You know me, and/or Matthias, I know Matthias, Matthias was instrumental to Lair, Lair commercials are arriving every day on the t.v. & in magazines, Lair becomes famous—Yahoo, so are you! Ahh so now you can say “you know someone, who knows someone, who worked on Lair.”

For more information on Lair visit: http://www.us.playstation.com/Lair/

And to top if off, Sony has knocked off $100.00 of the price of the PS3. Sweet!

Reading: Big Questions Worthy Dreams, Mentoring Young Adults in Their Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Faith by Sharon Daloz Parks
Enjoying: Time off from work, sleeping in, staying up late, sharing meals with family, friends and Matthias.
Thinking about: The wedding
Looking forward to: Going to the All-Star Game in San Francisco
Listening to: IPOD shuffle
Watching: Hell’s Kitchen, The View