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| it's been a long while since i've felt this hassled and out of sync.
it's been a long while since i've put so much on my plate.
and you know that i don't like to do things that are so out of the way.
monday, i metroed for one hour (crushed amidst business people) to sonali's house so i could help out with her school.
yesterday, i biked from foggy bottom to anacostia boathouse (approx 5 miles) through rush hour traffic to go to dragonboating.
today i will walk to dupont to meet up with doug about networking for jobs. then i will go home and help rachel dismantle her bed.
tomorrow will be a night of moving heavy boxes of books.
friday will be another long day of working with sonali to get her school up and running.
at some point before the weekend i need to find time to head over to my new apartment to pick up the spare key so i can start moving things in.
i have yet to decide if i'm going to go to both saturday and sunday dragonboating practices. i suppose it will depend on whether or not my parents want to try it out on sunday at the fun paddling. if anyone in the dc area's interested, come on out to anacostia boathouse (1115 O St, SW) at 10:30am. it's totally addicting!
i received an email from my aunt yesterday that stated, "i heard you found a nice place to live with 2 girls. congratulations!" i assume my uncle told her the news. and i assume he heard it from my parents. thing is, i NEVER ONCE said that i was living with girls. i only told my parents that i found a place. one of my roommates works for DOD. the other one is in the process of getting a masters from georgetown.
also, my mom's been bugging me about working on my resume. still haven't told her that i'm going to be working for sonali part time for at least 6 months.
it's one of those things. it's something i want to do, just like i knew i wanted to live in that apartment as soon as i visited. but deep down inside, i know that my parents will disapprove. "you're not using your full potential"
yeah, okay. i'm going through my rebellious teen years.
bite me.
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| dragonboating is awesome. i discovered a group of people who really care for each other, and dormant muscles on my body. my ass hurts from the hard wooden bench. i also think i unwittingly ate a whole kebab of chicken hearts (tastes like sausage with an odd innards sort of flavor tacked on the end).
flying high and hard.
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| met up with matt on monday morning to sign the lease for the new apartment.
been making a lot of new friends lately and feeling pretty good about where it's all going. as rachel says, i'm getting to be all social this weekend. i've got stuff lined up thurs, fri, and possibly sat. i'm especially excited about dragon boating on thursday. it'll be nice to build up core and arm strength, esp since i've definitely gotten the leg workout down pat.
ride in october in la plata, md. (http://www.active.com/page/Event_Details.htm?event_id=1657974&assetId=0896A6E1-29DD-4DA0-BE18-4F8327297C46&dart=F#Summary) michelle said she'll try to make it. that would be totally sweet. i'd shoot for riding 60 or 80 miles. :D
despite not making much progress on actual job apps, i'm feeling pretty good right now. after looking through organizations' websites, i feel like i have a more defined direction of the type of project i want to eventually work on.
i'm also looking into getting involved with dvrp, which would be sweet.
tomorrow and thursday will be days of administering exams of sorts. yay to reading all day. lol
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| this is one of those weird limbo times in my life. my job AND my lease are both about to run out. this means, if i don't get my butt into serious gear soon, i'm not going to have income or a place to live.
it totally feels like catch-22. i don't know where i should live if i don't know where i'll be working. yet, i have no idea where/what i want my job to be. it's so frustrating i just want to curl up in a ball and avoid it altogether.
i've found a couple of viable places on craigslist, but i can't decide if i want to stay in VA or move back into DC. i think i might want to stay in arlington. i rather enjoy the commute, even if it's 40+ minutes and i curse every single hill on the ride home. i think what i really want to do is buy and house and settle down. but clearly, that's out of the question at the moment.
something else that's been bothering me. i care too much what my parents think. like, right now, i'm considering a room in an apartment with 2 guys. me and two guys. and i think my mom would have an aneurysm if she knew. fuck them. i'm old enough to make decisions by myself. but at the same time, i still value their opinions and know that they care a lot about me and my well-being. hence the hesitation.
it's so fucking tiring, you know? but instead of talking it out, i shut down. i hide it all inside. and suffer alone.
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| it's funny how i can feel like total shit after lounging around for a weekend and not biking or doing much of anything. i think i used to enjoy downtime, but now i feel like i've got so much stuff i need to be doing that i can't just enjoy relaxing. i also think i must be eating more or something and that's why i'm starting to feel gross after a couple of days of inactivity.
didn't sleep well last night because i spent the whole night thinking about this job interview and how i hope i get the job, despite my mom's crap talk about how i need to better utilize my skills. also, last night i found on craigslist a house with a $350/mo room, roommates being a bro and sis who graduated from osu, and they seemed to be quite into biking, beer, and progressive politics. plus it's like 6 blocks away from where i live now, so that would be super sweet if it worked out.
basically last night's dreams were my ideal situations.
imagine my letdown when i checked my email this morning and had no news from either the job nor the housing option. sigh.
on a better note, i started the evening with a smorgasborg of veggies left over from erin's visit that i wanted to use up and had no idea how, and ended up with yummy mifen (essentially, stir-fried vegetable rice noodles). i was super proud of myself. :D
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