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I haven't updated this blog in awhile, but wanted to add a few snapshot of life during the past month:
- Work- We have forms due and contact the chldren (customers) for their forms. No one seems to be able to keep to deadlines. My co-workers and I maintain each others' sanity, but sometimes lash out at each other from the mere frustration from spending 8 hours in an unsatisfactory, unchallenging work situation. These conflicts are like quick summer thunderstorms: they arrive and bring much noise and fury, but quickly abate. In the aftermath of these episodes, we smile and laugh and get on with our day. If one of them leaves- I don't know how I am going to do this everyday.
- School- It is a fury of lectures, readings and assignments. I try to pay attention in my research methods class, but I daydream about being in bed, in the Carribean or Europe. I write a 12-page research paper over Thanksgiving break in the midst of minor panic attacks, while bad reality TV and lifetime movies play in the background. I hand it in on Monday and now face uphill battle of another research paper and exam. I keep thinking: 2 more weeks...2 more weeks
- Family- We have Thanksgiving at my aunt's and everyone is there talking, laughing and eating. I haven't been this happy in ages and try to take in every moment. because this is the last time we are going to be together for a while. My cousin J is going to Russia with his girlfriend for Christmas and his brother, B, is working at a ski resort in Colorado. I try to memorize their faces and talk to them as much as possible. I am starting realize more and more how much these people mean to me. I am so lucky I have a nice, fun family I get along with. I am truly thankful.
-Dating- J and I have been out on a few more dates. Things are progressing. Yes, really they are progressing. I sometimes have to pinch myself that I am dating someone who I can talk to for hours on the phone, who is smart, likes my family, makes me laugh or buys me a beta fish because I mentioned I liked them on our first date (her name is Cloey and hope to God I don't kill her). I keep telling myself- take it slow, be rational don't get carried away.It is an adjustment (granted a welcome one) to share my time and space with someone after two years of indpendent life. I often wonder how hard it must be for people who have been married for ten or more years, become single and then start a new relationship. They have my sympathy.
- Friends- I threw the FR a birthday party in late November which fortunately a success (much appreciation goes to my mom). However, one thing that marred the occasion was tht only a few people could make it and very few RSVP. I was following up and nagging people days before the party: are you coming? Ugh! The worse was that one friend didn't give a very good excuse why he couldn't come, but then said he could meet the party goers going out - if we drove over an hour to a bar near his house. I cooly declined his offer and had to restrain myself from writing a nasty email about what a selfish, prick he is and he didn't deserve the FR as a friend.
-I want the radio stations and retailers to stop playing Christmas music in November!
So, that is it- for now.