squidward never has time for any fun
hey.
so i live in portland now, as you probably could have figured out. ive got my coffee shop circut down and the cheapest place to buy cigarettes within a block of my apartment. its good here. besides not being able to do much because i wasnt born in 1984, theres still plenty. i started school on september 25th. the best latte ive ever had is only 5 minutes away including max(public transportation) and walking time. or 20ish blocks if im feeling like a stroll. i spent way too much money when i got here and now im broke. i need a haircut more than you could possibly imagine. i miss my mom and my sacramento friends. i havent made any here, but i dont really mind. i had a few but seeing as i broke their best friends heart, they dont even make eye contact with me when i see them.
the nice thing about portland is the abundance of outdoor seating. the bad thing about portland is that very little of it is covered. sadly, its rained every day this the month except for one. there are a million restaurants and almost all of them have permanent benches outside that stick around. none of this "take in the chairs at closing time" business. so if im at the coffee shop for example, even though the outdoor seating is full, there is an empty bench next door screaming my name. its perfect for my antisocial social thing that i do. disconnect myself from everyone with my laptop/book/ipod but still be close enough to observe. it keeps me at an almost tolerable level of loneliness.
so as it turns out, i am not meant to be a nurse. i kind of already knew that. i knew that i really wanted to be a social worker, not a nurse, when i declared my major as nursing. so guess what im doing? changing my major. it is now, as of the upcoming winter term, going to be child and family studies. the nice thing is that the classes im taking now are all going to be useful and not just a waste of time. that is, if i dont fail biology, which is likely.
child and family studies is not social work, you say? very good observation. i chose that major because it is still covered by my scholarship and the classes that are required are most of the classes reqiured to get into the graduate school of social work at pornland state. so i will only have to take a few extras instead of many extras. smart, right? yeah.
so my life is totally interesting. not. i think about school constantly and when im not thinking about it im usually doing homework at one of the billion coffee shops by my apartment on my weekend nights. how exciting. well, i have a small excuse. since i dont have any friends the only person i hang out is zach. and since he works most days from 4 to 1130, i spend a lot of time by myself.
a side note. my hair was the blondest blonde youve ever seen a week ago. and within 12 hours i dyed it back to brown. but the brown faded to a gross color that i couldnt stand. so now its black. hah. i dont know how i feel about that. but i think ill be able to get used to it. at least ive gone out in public with it, thats a good start. and my hair is really long now. not really, but longer than its been in a good 4 years. so now i want to chop it off. my mom is going to be heartbroken if when i come back to sacramento for thanksgiving my hair is short and black. she hates black hair and she loves that im growing my hair out. poor mom. i guess its better than her knowing that im getting a tattoo on the 27th.
speaking of hair, i was plucking my eyebrows with my super magi-mirror and i found a white hair hiding with all of my other brown bangs. i had zach do an evaluation and rip it out. we both decided it was not blonde, but white. fucking crazy. im too young for this shit. my grandmother was totally white by the time she was 19. her mom, 18. i have vowed to only dye my hair until im 40, if this isnt just a fluke.
so thats it. im eating pasta salad and watching spongebob and waiting until 8 when i will take dinner to zach at work and then, you guessed it, do homework at a coffee shop until he gets off work.
so i live in portland now, as you probably could have figured out. ive got my coffee shop circut down and the cheapest place to buy cigarettes within a block of my apartment. its good here. besides not being able to do much because i wasnt born in 1984, theres still plenty. i started school on september 25th. the best latte ive ever had is only 5 minutes away including max(public transportation) and walking time. or 20ish blocks if im feeling like a stroll. i spent way too much money when i got here and now im broke. i need a haircut more than you could possibly imagine. i miss my mom and my sacramento friends. i havent made any here, but i dont really mind. i had a few but seeing as i broke their best friends heart, they dont even make eye contact with me when i see them.
the nice thing about portland is the abundance of outdoor seating. the bad thing about portland is that very little of it is covered. sadly, its rained every day this the month except for one. there are a million restaurants and almost all of them have permanent benches outside that stick around. none of this "take in the chairs at closing time" business. so if im at the coffee shop for example, even though the outdoor seating is full, there is an empty bench next door screaming my name. its perfect for my antisocial social thing that i do. disconnect myself from everyone with my laptop/book/ipod but still be close enough to observe. it keeps me at an almost tolerable level of loneliness.
so as it turns out, i am not meant to be a nurse. i kind of already knew that. i knew that i really wanted to be a social worker, not a nurse, when i declared my major as nursing. so guess what im doing? changing my major. it is now, as of the upcoming winter term, going to be child and family studies. the nice thing is that the classes im taking now are all going to be useful and not just a waste of time. that is, if i dont fail biology, which is likely.
child and family studies is not social work, you say? very good observation. i chose that major because it is still covered by my scholarship and the classes that are required are most of the classes reqiured to get into the graduate school of social work at pornland state. so i will only have to take a few extras instead of many extras. smart, right? yeah.
so my life is totally interesting. not. i think about school constantly and when im not thinking about it im usually doing homework at one of the billion coffee shops by my apartment on my weekend nights. how exciting. well, i have a small excuse. since i dont have any friends the only person i hang out is zach. and since he works most days from 4 to 1130, i spend a lot of time by myself.
a side note. my hair was the blondest blonde youve ever seen a week ago. and within 12 hours i dyed it back to brown. but the brown faded to a gross color that i couldnt stand. so now its black. hah. i dont know how i feel about that. but i think ill be able to get used to it. at least ive gone out in public with it, thats a good start. and my hair is really long now. not really, but longer than its been in a good 4 years. so now i want to chop it off. my mom is going to be heartbroken if when i come back to sacramento for thanksgiving my hair is short and black. she hates black hair and she loves that im growing my hair out. poor mom. i guess its better than her knowing that im getting a tattoo on the 27th.
speaking of hair, i was plucking my eyebrows with my super magi-mirror and i found a white hair hiding with all of my other brown bangs. i had zach do an evaluation and rip it out. we both decided it was not blonde, but white. fucking crazy. im too young for this shit. my grandmother was totally white by the time she was 19. her mom, 18. i have vowed to only dye my hair until im 40, if this isnt just a fluke.
so thats it. im eating pasta salad and watching spongebob and waiting until 8 when i will take dinner to zach at work and then, you guessed it, do homework at a coffee shop until he gets off work.