the lavender man

Left work today, a bit more flushed than I had expected after a going-away-party for a "teacher-in-residence" who had been with us for a few weeks. It was a big fanfare: multiple types of cheese and wine being passed around. I ended up with a glass of merlot, which I drank, standing amongst my colleagues while trying to retain good posture after another long day in front of a computer.
I got out on the street and on my way to meet Shawna at Pioneer Square happened upon a man with a massive bundle of lavender stalks which he was handing out for free. I grabbed some, and carrying a copy of the book "American Psycho," made my way over to the Max stop on 6th and Yamhill, but managed to catch a good glimpse of the sand-sculpture contest going on in the Square. They weren't as impressive as I expected. The lavender guy had made his way to that area and was questioned by a young patrol (not police) officer, as if he were doing something wrong.
Shawna and I saw the new Harry Potter movie, it was awesome.
Now it is the weekend; tomorrow we plan to head down to Eugene. I think this may be the last time I ever set foot in the town, which doesn't feel too sentimental for me. I'm not looking forward to the clean up and the move out, but once I get this done, the string from me to Eugene is more or less severed and I can get on with my life.
What else can I really write at the moment. I don't want to write about work when I'm not there, but things are going well anyway. Sometimes I'm bored out of my skull, other times content and happy. We had a deployment team meeting the other day where people were making jokes (including other, very business-oriented, interns) that simply were not jokes. Everyone laughed and I couldn't fake it, I kept thinking in my mind, "that literally was not a joke (?)"
But after meeting with a few people at work I am sure that in spite of the monotony of my daily tasks, the people do want me to have a meaningful learning experience this summer, regardless of whether I stay or move on.
Next week I give a presentation of my training curriculum map that I have myself developed for a 1st yr medical school anatomy course. By the end of my internship I am to give a marketing presentation as well as a presentation of what I have gained/learned from my experience there. In the end, there is more good than bad to come from this, I feel, though at moments it seems not so. Just as many attribute the ails of the world to God's own agenda to which we are vastly unaware.
On the lighter side of things, I decided to spoil myself and buy an awesome new pair of shoes (more to come) and a long board (also yet to come).