Wow...I never post on here anymore...
Well, I don't really have anything to say. I've felt like that for the last two weeks, which I suppose explains the long hiatus in lj posts. Sorry, everyone who likes to occasionally know what's up with me.
I'm still working...as much as I can, with the vampires (Biolife Plasma Services, this is Robin, how can I help you?) and I got a raise a while back. That's nice. I feel valued and like I belong there, and my coworkers are all kind and good company. I get paid sick leave and vacation time and they work around my IDF schedule. And they all noticed my haircut, you jerks (Jamie and Erik excluded). -)
Oh, I got into IDF. It's the Institute for a Democratic Future. I had my first IDF weekend two weeks ago; it was great. We had a mixer in downtown Seattle on Saturday night (which I almost didn't make it to...long, miserable story) and then we listened to a bunch of fancy guest speakers on Sunday. I heard the District Attorney of King County speak, as well as a law professor from UW give a lecture on Washington state's political history, and there was also a young Representative from Washington state there to tell us what running for office is really like. It was super-cool. This coming Monday and Tuesday, I get to shadow a legislator for a day down in Olympia and learn about the Washington state congress. It'll be awesome, I'm sure.
I've slowly come to realize that I'm having the time of my life right now. Nothing special is going on, and I have no huge obligations or stresses on me right now. I'm not doing much except working and spending time with Erik and my friends, writing, and doing some gentle political activism on the side. I'm deep in debt but working on finding my way out a little at a time, and I'm learning to budget and take care of myself. I've found a sort of equilibrium, a peace of a sort. I'm not too worried about anything, and I feel like I can just let life come. I know that it won't last, but...
This past year will probably be one that I look back on as one of the happiest times in my life. Surrounded by friends and joy and familiar things, supporting myself but not working too hard or worrying that much about my career or my future.
In a few months, I'm sure the bubble will pop. I'll be moving down to Seattle one way or another, either to find work or to go to law school. Erik may or may not move down as well, and there will be the necessary complications there. I'm not sure what Jamie is planning to do, or most of my other friends, ultimately. We'll probably spread ourselves like dandelion fluff on the wind and keep in touch only occasionally; I can feel us drifting slowly apart already.
So I'm really enjoying these days of quiet, nothin'-goin'-on-ness.
I'm almost glad I have nothing to say lately.
We should all go to 80s night this week. That's another thing that will soon enough pass away forever. Cherish it now.
I'm still working...as much as I can, with the vampires (Biolife Plasma Services, this is Robin, how can I help you?) and I got a raise a while back. That's nice. I feel valued and like I belong there, and my coworkers are all kind and good company. I get paid sick leave and vacation time and they work around my IDF schedule. And they all noticed my haircut, you jerks (Jamie and Erik excluded). -)
Oh, I got into IDF. It's the Institute for a Democratic Future. I had my first IDF weekend two weeks ago; it was great. We had a mixer in downtown Seattle on Saturday night (which I almost didn't make it to...long, miserable story) and then we listened to a bunch of fancy guest speakers on Sunday. I heard the District Attorney of King County speak, as well as a law professor from UW give a lecture on Washington state's political history, and there was also a young Representative from Washington state there to tell us what running for office is really like. It was super-cool. This coming Monday and Tuesday, I get to shadow a legislator for a day down in Olympia and learn about the Washington state congress. It'll be awesome, I'm sure.
I've slowly come to realize that I'm having the time of my life right now. Nothing special is going on, and I have no huge obligations or stresses on me right now. I'm not doing much except working and spending time with Erik and my friends, writing, and doing some gentle political activism on the side. I'm deep in debt but working on finding my way out a little at a time, and I'm learning to budget and take care of myself. I've found a sort of equilibrium, a peace of a sort. I'm not too worried about anything, and I feel like I can just let life come. I know that it won't last, but...
This past year will probably be one that I look back on as one of the happiest times in my life. Surrounded by friends and joy and familiar things, supporting myself but not working too hard or worrying that much about my career or my future.
In a few months, I'm sure the bubble will pop. I'll be moving down to Seattle one way or another, either to find work or to go to law school. Erik may or may not move down as well, and there will be the necessary complications there. I'm not sure what Jamie is planning to do, or most of my other friends, ultimately. We'll probably spread ourselves like dandelion fluff on the wind and keep in touch only occasionally; I can feel us drifting slowly apart already.
So I'm really enjoying these days of quiet, nothin'-goin'-on-ness.
I'm almost glad I have nothing to say lately.
We should all go to 80s night this week. That's another thing that will soon enough pass away forever. Cherish it now.