My ever changing life...
Life updates
I don't even remember the last time that I updated this thing, even though I'm always reading entries...
Let's see, where am I with life?
work I'm currently working at the Salk institute for biological studies. It's a world renown research center in a field that doesn't interest me. I'm a clerical assistant and honestly I really don't like it. I've been here for about 6 weeks and I feel like if I were to like it, it would have happened by now. It's kind of similar to the devil wears prada, minus the fabulous gay coworker and amazing clothes. Instead I have a few awkward scientists and an 82 year old boss. My boss gives me extremely vague instruction and then expects me to read her mind. Her demands are nearly impossible and while I know she likes me, she expects work to be everyone's life. One of our collaborators went to Paris for a vacation and my boss was EXTREMELY upset that she wasn't answering emails, skyping into meetings, or answering her phone. She's very unrealistic. I don't make enough money to justify the shitty work. I also commute 2-3 hours per day. It's really frustrating and there is rarely a day I do go home thinking that it was an okay day. I guess i'm just really disappointed because i thought i was done having a shitty year. 2012 sucked (understatement of the century) and 2013 was supposed to be great. While there are great aspects of my life (see below) My career is important to me and I had so much hope for this position. I'm currently looking for another job and hoping I find one soon.
housingI'm loving where I live. I live with char in downtown carlsbad and it's just so much fun. Our apartment is very cute and I'm starting to be able to build some fun furniture. I love that type of stuff.
man friend things are going well. We've been seeing each other for about 5 ish months and having a lot of fun. We're going to a concert tomorrow and I'm super stoked on that. We also have been going indoor rock climbing, which i love! I'm not really sure where I want things to go from here because I like him a lot, but I'm not sure I'm ready for another relationship, even though that's kind of what we have. If it develops into that, I won't push it away, but I know that I'm definitely keeping my guard up. There's a possibility of transition soon so I guess we'll see where that goes. I'm anxious to see what happens, but I also am really just enjoying where things are at :)
activities I'm running a 1/2 marathon in Januart. I'm that weird person that wakes up at 5am to go jog. I love the challenge of it and hate it all at the same time, but I think it's good for me. I was always convinced that I hate running so it's nice to see my perspective on things change.
friends really the biggest update is that one of my BEST friends, kim, moved to Milwaukee for grad school last month. It's definitely tough not having her here, but I am so proud of her and so excited for her. I hope I can arrange a visit soon, but we will see. Everyone else is cool. I'm super grateful for my friends to keep my sanity :)
Well I'm almost at the train station (I take the train to and from work) so I'm going to go.
Xoxo
Alisha