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Updates I promised and updates I am ready to produce.
What has been up with my life, lately, you ask? So much. I am writing to you now from my dining room table. Yes, dear readers, I have moved from the dorm I grew to love after four years. I am now blogging to you via wireless internet from my lovely loft apartment that I share with Todd and our new beagle, Dagny. We are still in the process of settling in here, but it has been almost three months that we've been here. I must say it's very strange to live in a place with more than one room, but even more strange to live in your own place that has your own kitchen, bathroom, etc. I have spent a great amount of time in the last three months settling into a routine that is so much like my mother. I clean everything, every day, and the work never ends. I am also becoming a good little cook, making dinner often. I think Todd enjoys it, and Jordan joins us often which is nice, and he is at least polite enough to tell me he thinks I'm pretty good too, even if he doesn't believe it... I am cooking things that I consider "hard", too. So far my top performances have been turkey (which was great) and I did ribs yesterday for Independence Day. If you're curious, sometimes I put on my new, real pearls just for added affect. I'm not even joking. I started wearing heals during house chores just because I heard you burn twice the calories. So far I am really developing calf muscles from vacuuming in my stilettos. No joke.
Tomorrow I take an online final which finshes my schooling, undergraduate at least, for good. It has been a strange month of June finishing class. I found this class to be particularly interest. Sociology's criminology department offered a study in juvenile delinquency so I took that and it has all been online. Very interesting. I think one of the most spectacular parts of college was that I found almost every class so very interesting and stimulating. I also think that perhaps that is why I never settled on a graduate program. There are so many things I could study or fields I could work in and still be content that I can't choose. And so I haven't, which is another source of stress.
I am currently not planning on attending school full time in the near future. As you know I worked in the advising offices of the College of Arts and Sciences at UT my last year of school, and I continue there right now. I am in the process of applying for an Administrative Professional position in that same office. I had my second interview today and should hear their decision soon. It was a really "big girl" interview, so I wore a suit and surprised everyone, including myself. The pay is very low, but the medical benefits, coupled with free graduate classes, combined with my actual enjoyment of that field of work is what is driving me to apply. If I don't get this job, I don't know what is next. I may take some time off from everything and see where I land.
I feel like I am growing up so rapidly, and in a way I am proud and feel accomplished. In other ways I feel nostalgic, sad, and even boarderline depressed. I am having trouble coping with the various changes that are happening, or I at least perceive to be happening. I feel like some days I am on a real emotional rollercoaster and I can't tell if I'm at a crest or a pit. Part of my anxiety may come from that fact that the future is really, honestly wide open. I have achieved one goal I've dreamed about since I was about 8. I graduated, with top honors, from UT. Every bit of school work, every extra curricular, every bit of me spent the time from 8 to 22 working for that. And now that it's done, I don't know where to turn next.
I enjoy my new home and makeshift family, but yesterday during the fireworks I felt extreme homesickness for Kingsport. First 4th of July away from home. Nobody gets teary over that, do they? I did.
That's all for now, hopefully I will be back soon to update more. There are a lot of things to talk about but I'm not sure when I'll be ready...
What has been up with my life, lately, you ask? So much. I am writing to you now from my dining room table. Yes, dear readers, I have moved from the dorm I grew to love after four years. I am now blogging to you via wireless internet from my lovely loft apartment that I share with Todd and our new beagle, Dagny. We are still in the process of settling in here, but it has been almost three months that we've been here. I must say it's very strange to live in a place with more than one room, but even more strange to live in your own place that has your own kitchen, bathroom, etc. I have spent a great amount of time in the last three months settling into a routine that is so much like my mother. I clean everything, every day, and the work never ends. I am also becoming a good little cook, making dinner often. I think Todd enjoys it, and Jordan joins us often which is nice, and he is at least polite enough to tell me he thinks I'm pretty good too, even if he doesn't believe it... I am cooking things that I consider "hard", too. So far my top performances have been turkey (which was great) and I did ribs yesterday for Independence Day. If you're curious, sometimes I put on my new, real pearls just for added affect. I'm not even joking. I started wearing heals during house chores just because I heard you burn twice the calories. So far I am really developing calf muscles from vacuuming in my stilettos. No joke.
Tomorrow I take an online final which finshes my schooling, undergraduate at least, for good. It has been a strange month of June finishing class. I found this class to be particularly interest. Sociology's criminology department offered a study in juvenile delinquency so I took that and it has all been online. Very interesting. I think one of the most spectacular parts of college was that I found almost every class so very interesting and stimulating. I also think that perhaps that is why I never settled on a graduate program. There are so many things I could study or fields I could work in and still be content that I can't choose. And so I haven't, which is another source of stress.
I am currently not planning on attending school full time in the near future. As you know I worked in the advising offices of the College of Arts and Sciences at UT my last year of school, and I continue there right now. I am in the process of applying for an Administrative Professional position in that same office. I had my second interview today and should hear their decision soon. It was a really "big girl" interview, so I wore a suit and surprised everyone, including myself. The pay is very low, but the medical benefits, coupled with free graduate classes, combined with my actual enjoyment of that field of work is what is driving me to apply. If I don't get this job, I don't know what is next. I may take some time off from everything and see where I land.
I feel like I am growing up so rapidly, and in a way I am proud and feel accomplished. In other ways I feel nostalgic, sad, and even boarderline depressed. I am having trouble coping with the various changes that are happening, or I at least perceive to be happening. I feel like some days I am on a real emotional rollercoaster and I can't tell if I'm at a crest or a pit. Part of my anxiety may come from that fact that the future is really, honestly wide open. I have achieved one goal I've dreamed about since I was about 8. I graduated, with top honors, from UT. Every bit of school work, every extra curricular, every bit of me spent the time from 8 to 22 working for that. And now that it's done, I don't know where to turn next.
I enjoy my new home and makeshift family, but yesterday during the fireworks I felt extreme homesickness for Kingsport. First 4th of July away from home. Nobody gets teary over that, do they? I did.
That's all for now, hopefully I will be back soon to update more. There are a lot of things to talk about but I'm not sure when I'll be ready...