Okay, I'm a Nerd

My geekiness is reaching full flight right now:

My first Economist, from my new student subscription, arrived in the mail today! I was giddy with excitement!

My Power Point presentation that is due next week on the Democratization of the Czech Republic - is ready. We have to do an oral presentation on Thursday...7 minutes presenting our findings. This is the first half of a research project in Comparative Politics - we are comparingthe democratization of a country of our choice (Czech Republic) to the potential for the democratization of Iraq. What a fascinating topic! My geekiness shows on my dining room table - research from the United National Human Development Reports, from the CIA, from the Czech Republic government website, the US Department of State, even Wikipedia.

I am finally being challenged academically - in my Poli Sci Classes - Comparative Politics and International Law and Organizations - I couldn't be having more fun!

One more example of my nerdiness: In my Comparative Politics class, our professor - one of the elite professors...carries a pocket copy of the Constitution of the United States. In class on Thursday, he was trying to link up from our class internet connection with the Declaration of Human Rights. The link wasn't working so I reached in my backpack and pulled out my copy of the Declaration of Human Rights!!!!! The pocket version!!!! We were all laughing at our extreme nerdiness!!!!! I told my professor I would let him look at it, but he had to be gentle!!!!!

Atlanta ONE is having an event tonight at my neighborhood clubhouse...with are welcoming Heifer International, one of our partners, for an educational evening!!!!!!!! I made the tortilla roll-ups. If we get some good photos, I will post them - maybe I can get them posted on the one.org website!!!!!!

Next week is the AIDS Walk Atlanta - we have been invited to join CARE and Dr. Helene Gayle - we will not only have a table but a 10x10 TENT!!! CARE is going to give us t-shirts, wristbands, declarations - I can't tell you how much easier it makes our jobs to particpate in events when you have partners who actually have budgets, etc.

Love and peace everyone!