So the summer beings, I guess..
So the froshies are gone, I have moved into my new room in WVE, and my time as a conference assistant has begun. I think it will end up being a cool job, seeing as I only have to be nice and cheerful only once in a while, and unlike the RA gig, I can actually leave the building (for days at a time) when I am not on duty. Too bad James and I have this unspoken rule about not being on the same staff- cause it would totally rock if he wasn't an RA right now. He could have been on the White hall staff...we technically aren't the same, and we don't work together. But I digress.
Living in upperclassmen housing is weird, especially since I hung out with Sarah and Heather so much, that I felt like I was another roommate. I live with 3 other former/future RAs, which has been interesting. J is cool, and we have already been on staff, so I have no worries there. The youngest (read: was a frosh up until a few days ago), is well young, and acts with lots of energy (which I think I have lost most of mine since being an RA...). So yea, she likes to have lots of fun, and since she really doesn't have lots of responisbilites, I guess it makes sense. But here I am, thinking in uber-RA mode (radar starts going off) of how an RA should act, even if they aren't an RA yet. I know it is odd, but I guess it does bug me deep down. I think she is a good person, but I don't know if she would be the type where I could have the relationship I have had with other RAs (yea Sex in the City, Boston style).
City year is here, and now that I have checked them in (they are all from South Africa, and its really cool), I am apparently the only CA they can talk to....something tonight about trying to find me to talk about an iron...I have no idea...I am not home. I think they will be a good group, once they rely on the staff member who is on duty. Wishful thinking I know, especially knowing how residents can be- nothing is sacred.
Work (co-op) is okay. I am at the point where I want it to be over, or at least not 40 hours a week killing my life. Plenty of the people there are cool, and some I would hang out with beyond work, but its the politics and the mudane-ness that is getting me down. Wake up, get ready, walk to work, work, lunch, work, walk to NU (maybe gym), CA stuff, dinner, get ready for next day, sleep. Is that really how I want to spend most of my life? I love what I do, but I now know I need to find a place where I love doing it. That or take lots of vacations.
I miss the social interactions- my residents, my fellow RAs. I really miss S and H, mostly cause I finally found 2 cool friends, that aren't backstabbing, like "friends" of the past. They get me despite or maybe even because of, my weirdness. And they haven't seen anything yet.
I should call james now...another downside of co-op and him being on Columbus...don't get as much time with him :(
Living in upperclassmen housing is weird, especially since I hung out with Sarah and Heather so much, that I felt like I was another roommate. I live with 3 other former/future RAs, which has been interesting. J is cool, and we have already been on staff, so I have no worries there. The youngest (read: was a frosh up until a few days ago), is well young, and acts with lots of energy (which I think I have lost most of mine since being an RA...). So yea, she likes to have lots of fun, and since she really doesn't have lots of responisbilites, I guess it makes sense. But here I am, thinking in uber-RA mode (radar starts going off) of how an RA should act, even if they aren't an RA yet. I know it is odd, but I guess it does bug me deep down. I think she is a good person, but I don't know if she would be the type where I could have the relationship I have had with other RAs (yea Sex in the City, Boston style).
City year is here, and now that I have checked them in (they are all from South Africa, and its really cool), I am apparently the only CA they can talk to....something tonight about trying to find me to talk about an iron...I have no idea...I am not home. I think they will be a good group, once they rely on the staff member who is on duty. Wishful thinking I know, especially knowing how residents can be- nothing is sacred.
Work (co-op) is okay. I am at the point where I want it to be over, or at least not 40 hours a week killing my life. Plenty of the people there are cool, and some I would hang out with beyond work, but its the politics and the mudane-ness that is getting me down. Wake up, get ready, walk to work, work, lunch, work, walk to NU (maybe gym), CA stuff, dinner, get ready for next day, sleep. Is that really how I want to spend most of my life? I love what I do, but I now know I need to find a place where I love doing it. That or take lots of vacations.
I miss the social interactions- my residents, my fellow RAs. I really miss S and H, mostly cause I finally found 2 cool friends, that aren't backstabbing, like "friends" of the past. They get me despite or maybe even because of, my weirdness. And they haven't seen anything yet.
I should call james now...another downside of co-op and him being on Columbus...don't get as much time with him :(