winding down

I can't believe a week from today is my last day at MSKCC. I am so sad about this. I have really loved working there and going to work every day. Hopefully I will have another chance to work there, either as a post-doc research fellow in psycho-oncology (not that I've planned this out or anything), or as a researcher. I have had the chance this summer to truly work among immensely talented, gifted people, and I am so thankful for that. This might have been one of the best, if not the best, summers of my life. 

But something else that is very dear to me and that I love very much is English/literature/reading. In fact, for a while in high school, I toyed with the idea of majoring in English once I got to college and becoming a professor, or a writer. During the summer, I get to read more "fun" books (although I'm not sure anyone would classify as "fun", the things I read!), and explore writers I've always heard of but only really skimmed over in college. One of these is Anais Nin. She's best known for her diaries. She was friends with - and usually much more - many well-known authors, psychoanalysts, and artists, and wrote about her adventures in her diaries. And until now, I never knew that she actually studied psychotherapy under Otto Rank, who trained with Freud. Although that explains a lot. There are many quotes by her that I love, but I found a few tonight that I wanted to share......

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself - Anais Nin

We write in order to live twice. - Anais Nin 

Reading now: "White Coat Wisdom" by Stephen Busalacchi; "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

Listening now: Katie Reider, Jem, Vampire Weekend