Last week I posted about my impending grad school career and strangely a lot has changed between then and now.

I received acceptance letters from not only Emerson but also DePaul University and American University, who has offered me a full scholarship.

This has put me in a bit of a bind unfortunately. Emerson was always my number one choice, but it was definitely my ‘reach’ school (along with American for that matter). They have the exact program I want and it is in Boston, which is where I ultimately wanted to live for at least the next two years. But now that American has offered me a ton of money I feel compelled to at least see what they have to offer.

So, within the next few weeks I am off to get the sales pitch from both schools and hopefully upon my return I will know what I am doing with my life next year.

I suppose I shouldn’t be complaining, because ultimately this is what I wanted all along.

The big boss has been in town this week, so it is a lot of running around and staffing special events. This generally has been leading to long hours and general brain exhaustion from talking to a million people.

Beyond the fact that I am exhausted when I get home, I have been meeting amazing people, left and right.

With graduation quickly approaching like a speeding train, I feel like I need to make as many contacts as humanly possible.

Schedule for the week: Today-Women’s Leadership Luncheon and then a reception with Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (awesome)

Tomorrow-Congressional Art Competition

Let the schmoozing begin!

I have always had a soft spot in my heart for small, underrepresented European countries (which makes sense, seeing as how I spent 4 months in Finland)

I especially love when people from said underrepresented countries find themselves thrust into the international spotlight. There is no better example of this than my most favorite Blazer of all time (along with Clyde of course) Arvydas Sabonis.

This giant, white, Lithuanian man with a funny shaped head was a strangely integral part of my childhood.

While Sabonis played a number of good years with the Blazers, it was his unsung achievements overseas that really demonstrated this Lithuanian ogre’s athletic prowess. Come on, can Brandon Roy proudly say that he was crowned Mr. Europa, two times running?! (no disrespect, I am an avid watcher of The Brandon Roy Show)

Finally, this year America took note of the amazing man, with the unmistakable haircut, that is Arvydas Sabonis, by inducting him into the hall of fame.

I couldn’t be more proud.

Breakfast is easily my favorite meal of the day and over the course of the past week I have been eating my favorite breakfast-type foods much more frequently than usual.

While my sudden uptake in scrambled eggs could usuall be attributed to a whole slew of environmental factors, this week it is Passover. While most Jews in America use this week to stuff their bellies full of cardboard-like matzo in all its ‘tasty’ forms, I use it as an excuse to eat eggs multiple times a day.

One of my favorite places to look for breakfast themed inspiration is on the blog Simply Breakfast. I try to only read it around a meal time because to be honest, any time I look at pictures of food for an extended period of time I end up getting pretty famished (or at least I convince myself that I’m famished; a skill I seem to have perfected after 21 years of living with a Jewish mother).

While Passover is one of my favorite Jewish holidays, I can’t wait to be able to eat some good old-fashioned oatmeal.