“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

It's hump day! Woo! Means that I don't have to do too much today, just sit around and do some work. Today I was tasked with the job of looking through GA and Security Council resolutions. Woo, so much fun (Actually it was cool to learn more about the subject). 

At lunch, I decided to go out and look at what was going on! 

Turns out every Wednesday, on 47th, there is a market that goes on there. The market has fresh food, baked goods, drinks, pretty much everything a good market should have. I went over with a friend and we walked around to check stuff out. It was actually quite nice. 

Afterwards, I headed back to my cubicle, watered the plant there (It was dying but now I'm trying to bring it back to life!) and did some more work. We had a meeting afterwards where we were trying to figure out the different responsibilities of different departments and who has "accountability" to who.

The Market :)

It was so confusing. My god, I don't think I've ever walked out of a meeting even more confused than I went in. I thought I had a general idea of what each department, for example, DPKO, DFS, UNICEF and OIOS were in charge of... But I guess that's not the case. There's a lot of cross accountability and some things that just fall into different categories. It's a bit complicated.

It was, in general, a pretty relaxed day. I mean my boss, the special coordinator, was in today so everyone sounded like they were high stress and tired. There was a lot to be done. 

It was nice afterwards, I meet up with two of my friends to go grab some dinner at place called Dee Daa. We headed out for Thai food at a nearby restaurant... But unfortunately... they ran out of pad thai. Literally their signature dish. I could not believe it so I grabbed their "drunken noodles" instead. It was okay, not anything great and only a little bit spicy, and I realized it was a fast food take out place. The guys were super nice though, they were rocking out to hard hip hop music and they gave us two extra servings of spring rolls so it was a nice time to visit. 

We sat and talked for a while, which was really nice considering the fact that it was so hard to meet up sometimes with our schedules.

Afterwards, I headed home and just relaxed for a while. All in all a good day. 

Dinner with Friends!