Bummer

I was having a pretty good day. My three midterms in the last 24 hours went off without a hitch. In fact, I even enjoyed taking my environmental law test and, for a few hours, was seriously considering law school. Then I thought about all the lawyers already in this world and thought better of it.

I went home and celebrated by making a yummy eggplant curry and eating a jello pudding pop. 

I've been waiting all day to hear back from the Oregon Fellows program. It's this groovy internship opportunity based in Oregon (obviously) that places students with local governments and non-profits in the Portland area. Sounds pretty great right?

Well, I thought so too. Unfortunately, I got rejected this evening. I don't want to take it too personally. As I told Dane just yesterday after Firefox rejected him, "we're just so awesome that we aren't used to getting rejected." We don't have a lot of practice. Maybe if we got turned down more often we could get over it more easily.

My question is this: Who is more qualified than me? I know this sounds really ego-centric, but I'm honestly asking. I graduated from a top notch school manga cum with honors in my major. I teach kids how to canoe in the summer. I can write. I can read. I can even do cartwheels. I'm in a graduate program. I just want a internship. You don't even have to pay me! Seriously. Who the hell is getting these god damn internships if I'm not? They better be the next freaking Gandhi. I even got rejected from the internship I wrote about in my last post.

Thanks for letting me vent.

Go Hoosiers.