pre adventure
7.5 hours and counting...til kim and brians excellent adventure. oh the craziness. im guessing this will be my last post until i get back home to california. i like the sound of that....back home in california. its been a strange few days here in jtown. ive seen more people than i thought i would. we had a good time camping the other night, other than the whole no sleep thing. i saw a lot of friends, which is always a good time. got to hang out with the family, again, always a good time. dinner with them tonite was fun. mom made my favorite dinner of mac and cheese.
i ran into bonnie at the mall. ok, so i stopped in the store she works at and she was there. it was weird seeing her somewhere other than gap, granted, ive seen her there before, but its always weird. she asked what i was up to and i told her. told her a little about old navy and how i was never happier than when i locked those keys in the safe and left on my last day. and i told her i was going to work for coporate for gap outlet and told her about what i was going to be doing. thats so cool she told me. youll have to come back and tell me how it is when youre back at christmas. she told me that she couldnt believe i have a 4 year degree already. im like yep it was just yesterday that i was 16 and ringing register at the gap...and shes like yep and then you were gone and calling me to ask how you should handle things.....and now ive kind of figured it out. for the first time, i had to break the conversation.....
kind of got me thinking about certain things have affected my life in such a major way. what if i had not been at the mall that day in november. what if i didnt walk by the empty store front and see the sign for the new gap opening. i remember how my social had been incorrectly entered into the system. what if i hadnt sent them a letter....and id never worked there? would i be the person i am today? would i being doing what i am now? would i be in san francisco? would i have stayed a premed major? what if id ended up at ohio state? would i have changed majors? i dont really know.....what if i had called porter square the day i met brooke? i would have found out that i wasnt actually suposed to work and i would have never met her. had i not met her, i wouldnt have transferred...no cambridgeside....no stomach problems? (speaking of, whoever i inherited my stomach from...i want a refund) would i have eaten 3 meals a day? would i have gotten promoted? had i not gotten promoted would i have been in better mindset for my rmp interview? what if courtney hadnt broken brian and me up? would we have caused irreparable harm on our own?
the truth is, i will never know. i could sit and focus on maybes and could bes, but i wouldnt want to. things happen for a reason. and if they were differnt, i wouldnt be happy. i wasnt suposed to be a doctor...its so not me. and i know that now. boston was me....and everything that happened to me there was meant to be. everything i had to fight for prepared me for the next thing. san francisco is more me....i know i belong there. i havent felt like this in a long time. and i wouldnt change it for the world.
ok...this is it...im signing off.....stay tuned for kim and brians excellent adventure.....that is if we dont run out of gas and get eaten....
i ran into bonnie at the mall. ok, so i stopped in the store she works at and she was there. it was weird seeing her somewhere other than gap, granted, ive seen her there before, but its always weird. she asked what i was up to and i told her. told her a little about old navy and how i was never happier than when i locked those keys in the safe and left on my last day. and i told her i was going to work for coporate for gap outlet and told her about what i was going to be doing. thats so cool she told me. youll have to come back and tell me how it is when youre back at christmas. she told me that she couldnt believe i have a 4 year degree already. im like yep it was just yesterday that i was 16 and ringing register at the gap...and shes like yep and then you were gone and calling me to ask how you should handle things.....and now ive kind of figured it out. for the first time, i had to break the conversation.....
kind of got me thinking about certain things have affected my life in such a major way. what if i had not been at the mall that day in november. what if i didnt walk by the empty store front and see the sign for the new gap opening. i remember how my social had been incorrectly entered into the system. what if i hadnt sent them a letter....and id never worked there? would i be the person i am today? would i being doing what i am now? would i be in san francisco? would i have stayed a premed major? what if id ended up at ohio state? would i have changed majors? i dont really know.....what if i had called porter square the day i met brooke? i would have found out that i wasnt actually suposed to work and i would have never met her. had i not met her, i wouldnt have transferred...no cambridgeside....no stomach problems? (speaking of, whoever i inherited my stomach from...i want a refund) would i have eaten 3 meals a day? would i have gotten promoted? had i not gotten promoted would i have been in better mindset for my rmp interview? what if courtney hadnt broken brian and me up? would we have caused irreparable harm on our own?
the truth is, i will never know. i could sit and focus on maybes and could bes, but i wouldnt want to. things happen for a reason. and if they were differnt, i wouldnt be happy. i wasnt suposed to be a doctor...its so not me. and i know that now. boston was me....and everything that happened to me there was meant to be. everything i had to fight for prepared me for the next thing. san francisco is more me....i know i belong there. i havent felt like this in a long time. and i wouldnt change it for the world.
ok...this is it...im signing off.....stay tuned for kim and brians excellent adventure.....that is if we dont run out of gas and get eaten....