Summertime
So I know I haven't really written since February. Too bad! I've been having way too much fun with my life. (Minus the sucky mono, which, finally, has gone away.) So the update on my life is: I am in love. With Lou. At the end of June, we'll have been dating for half a year. Somehow that number refuses to stick. It seems like I've known him for much much longer, and at the same time, I feel as though I haven't had nearly enough time with him. I love him. And I spend every spare second I have with him, which is why I haven't really been writing. He visited me every day while I was too sick to move. Can you believe that? For three and a half weeks, he came right to my house from work, had dinner with my family (strange as they are), and held me while I napped. Greatest man in the world.
On other topics: I leave for Davidson on the eighth of August. ????? What? Yeah, you heard me. The 8th. I have to drive two days to get to North Carolina, then for eight days I'm going to be backpacking and white-water kayaking and rock-climbing in the Smokey Mountains with a few other freshmen. It'll be AWESOME!!!! Anyway, after I get all sweaty and tired and disgusting for a week, I go back to campus for a three-day Orientation avec mes parents. Then classes start on the 21st. WOOT. And I'm going to be taking a French class. Who, Karen? Yeah.... who'd have thunk?
Anyway, I've entered into a 3-2 engineering program at Davidson. Besides a huge amount of work, it means that I'll graduate in three years from Davidson with a B.A., and then transfer to Columbia University. I'll graduate from Columbia in two years with a B.S. in some sort of engineering, probably Bioengineering. WOOT. So in five years, I'll have two Bachelor's degrees. From there, I'll probably stay on at Columbia for a masters and possible a Ph.D., or I'll apply somewhere closer to home, like Tufts or something. Anyway, that's the next ten years of my life in a nutshell. School. And I was under the impression that I just graduated high school. Ah sigh.
So here's the update on my current life: It's been hell and a half getting a job. Finally, I seem to have found something. I'm keeping the Saturday morning diner job. Next week I start at StrideRite, a kids' shoe store. That's a 25-30 hour job. And I'm also waiting on clearance to work at Helzberg Diamonds, which will be about 15 hours a week. But they really put you through an obstacle course to start working there. I already had two interviews, filled out a reference form, signed a sheet to let them do a credit check, and there's still more. After they clear my credit check, I have to go in for a telescreen, then they need to do a hair-sample drug test, then if that comes back clear, they have to do a criminal background check, and then, finally, I have one more interview, and then (hopefully) I'm hired. BLAH! So yeah. My life.
So despite the fact that I lost fifteen pounds while I was sick, I almost immediately gained it back, and I'm already feeling chubby. I need to start exercising again. Poo.
So now I'm going to go take a shower and work out. Probably not in that order. And then I'm going to pull weeds for my mom. Because she's paying me. ^_^ So long, y'all.
On other topics: I leave for Davidson on the eighth of August. ????? What? Yeah, you heard me. The 8th. I have to drive two days to get to North Carolina, then for eight days I'm going to be backpacking and white-water kayaking and rock-climbing in the Smokey Mountains with a few other freshmen. It'll be AWESOME!!!! Anyway, after I get all sweaty and tired and disgusting for a week, I go back to campus for a three-day Orientation avec mes parents. Then classes start on the 21st. WOOT. And I'm going to be taking a French class. Who, Karen? Yeah.... who'd have thunk?
Anyway, I've entered into a 3-2 engineering program at Davidson. Besides a huge amount of work, it means that I'll graduate in three years from Davidson with a B.A., and then transfer to Columbia University. I'll graduate from Columbia in two years with a B.S. in some sort of engineering, probably Bioengineering. WOOT. So in five years, I'll have two Bachelor's degrees. From there, I'll probably stay on at Columbia for a masters and possible a Ph.D., or I'll apply somewhere closer to home, like Tufts or something. Anyway, that's the next ten years of my life in a nutshell. School. And I was under the impression that I just graduated high school. Ah sigh.
So here's the update on my current life: It's been hell and a half getting a job. Finally, I seem to have found something. I'm keeping the Saturday morning diner job. Next week I start at StrideRite, a kids' shoe store. That's a 25-30 hour job. And I'm also waiting on clearance to work at Helzberg Diamonds, which will be about 15 hours a week. But they really put you through an obstacle course to start working there. I already had two interviews, filled out a reference form, signed a sheet to let them do a credit check, and there's still more. After they clear my credit check, I have to go in for a telescreen, then they need to do a hair-sample drug test, then if that comes back clear, they have to do a criminal background check, and then, finally, I have one more interview, and then (hopefully) I'm hired. BLAH! So yeah. My life.
So despite the fact that I lost fifteen pounds while I was sick, I almost immediately gained it back, and I'm already feeling chubby. I need to start exercising again. Poo.
So now I'm going to go take a shower and work out. Probably not in that order. And then I'm going to pull weeds for my mom. Because she's paying me. ^_^ So long, y'all.