not for the faint of heart (or bowels...dana)
Things have escalated quickly...I don't know what is going on really and I feel like I don't have much of a say in things. It started with a Teach for America recruiter. Now everyone and their mom wants to do Teach for America. David has basically decided that he wants to do TFA in New Orleans and defer grad school for 2 years. I was very against this plan from the beginning. He loves teaching but my mom and I are telling him that he doesn't know what the NO public schools are like and that he probably won't get to actually teach much. Apparently everyone is desperate for science and math teachers and he has lots of experience in leadership stuff and working with kids so the recruiter basically told him he could do it. All of this is making me nervous. On the one hand its flattering and I mean I would like to be with him because otherwise we'll be apart for at least 3 years while I'm in PT school. But I think I would be committing to a marriage like situation. His first plan was: 1. graduate from Trinity 2. get married 3. he teaches for 2 years 4. he goes to grad school 5. a year later I move to where he is at grad school (most likely Berkley). Needless to say, this plan was quickly vetoed. I said that it would be a bad idea to get married especially right out of college...I don't think he understood my reasoning (mainly that I would be in a state of financial dependence). Other plans have been proposed...I feel like a bitch when I shut his plans down, but I think he isn't thinking things through.
In other news, I have thankfully gotten drunk a good number of times already. I survived a drunken trek across a highway access road.
I feel like I am always busy. For my senior project, I am doing psych research in memory and cognition so I am running subjects at many odd hours of he day.
I am TAing an animal behavior lab and hung birdfeeders for about 3 hours yesterday. I got attacked by aunts multiple times, I got molested by a relentless bee, and I sweated out all of the water in my body. Then I went straight to Vert Phys lab where we did a live surgery on a mouse. It was anesthetized to the point of being totally unresponsive, but it was still alive. I was the one in my group who cut him open. I know the professor and that he likes active participation so I wanted to look good, but that night I felt so guilty. I cried a bit about it.
Speaking of surgeries, my mom broke her leg walking the dogs last week. She got surgery today, she is getting a metal plate and some screws put it. She is taking care of Jim's dog, Rufus, who is biggish like marley. My mom was walking both and Rufus got a little aggressive with marley so my mom called them back and rufus clipped her and knocked her down. I think the surgery and everything went well though.
I have to go to sleep, but I will write again soon.
In other news, I have thankfully gotten drunk a good number of times already. I survived a drunken trek across a highway access road.
I feel like I am always busy. For my senior project, I am doing psych research in memory and cognition so I am running subjects at many odd hours of he day.
I am TAing an animal behavior lab and hung birdfeeders for about 3 hours yesterday. I got attacked by aunts multiple times, I got molested by a relentless bee, and I sweated out all of the water in my body. Then I went straight to Vert Phys lab where we did a live surgery on a mouse. It was anesthetized to the point of being totally unresponsive, but it was still alive. I was the one in my group who cut him open. I know the professor and that he likes active participation so I wanted to look good, but that night I felt so guilty. I cried a bit about it.
Speaking of surgeries, my mom broke her leg walking the dogs last week. She got surgery today, she is getting a metal plate and some screws put it. She is taking care of Jim's dog, Rufus, who is biggish like marley. My mom was walking both and Rufus got a little aggressive with marley so my mom called them back and rufus clipped her and knocked her down. I think the surgery and everything went well though.
I have to go to sleep, but I will write again soon.