The Weekend...I thought this was supposed to be time off

I can't say I was really looking forward to the weekend. Mostly, because I knew it would be packed (as always) with things that I HAVE to do. But this weekend turned out to be too short (also...as always) and I won't lie, I had a little fun.

Saturday was the editing workshop at Girls Write Now, which surprisingly took a lot of planning. The day started off a little rough, because I got lost walking around the CUNY Grad Center, which was where the workshop was held and ended up being 15 minutes late.

I'm sure some of you are wondering what GWN is. Well, let me explain. It's a nonprofit that pairs aspiring teenage writers with professional women who have a writing background. We help them work on their writing and develop a relationship with them to encourage them to be college-bound. It's all kinds of awesome. My mentee, whose name will never,ever appear on this blog (cause she's a minor and all) is soooooo inspiring. She's talented and smart and really, really down-to-earth. She's also funny, which is great because we both laugh at similar types of things.

So the workshop started off with what GWN calls an ice breaker...Which was my job. We had the girls describe their biggest critic on paper and then destroy them! They seemed to enjoy that. After all, you can't really talk about editing without talking about the good and the bad. We all have critics who tells us we suck...When we actually don't. The rest of the workshop went well. We had a great panel with speakers from Seventeen, Jezebel (best. blog. ever.) and Youth Media Reporter. They talked about editing and self-editing. I hope the girls enjoyed it.

But boy was I tired when it was over! I passed out on the subway, which was fine, since it ended up taking an hour and half to get home.

Then I came home and attempted to write about racial economic disparities. That didn't go so well. I was a little tired by then.

To further procrastinate I watched Cloverfield. I give it two thumps up. Not terrible but not great either.

Sunday was more low-key, as in did not include 50 teenager girls. I met with my policy group, which is seriously becoming my second family. They're cool people and we worked on our Power Point Presentation. One of my colleagues volunteered to drive me home so I ended up not having to worry about the Q and its silly weekend schedule changes or the F and the weird police activity at 42 Street.

Then I watched the Oscars. Yay for Kate Winslet. You had me at Sense and Sensibility (one of the best adaptations ever).

I also managed to get some work done and continue to write my racial economic disparities paper, which by the way, is soooo complicated...

Am I ready to start the week? Nah. But at least I have something to show for the weekend. A presentation, an awesome workshop, a half-written paper and a half-written grant proposal.

Tomorrow's goals: finish proposal and paper. I'll let you know how that goes.