I haven't checked this blog in so long and was delighted to find so many posts to read, especially because I have gotten up approximately two times all day due to a big night last night (which involved the following occurrences: my asshole friends throwing rotten pumpkins off my balcony into the courtyard; accidentally grinding Scooby Doo fruit snacks into the rug and pouring boiling water on them to dissolve them and get them out of the rug, which actually worked; accidentally breaking the handle off my sliding door because one of my friends was trying to open it like a regular hinged door; finding one of my friends passed out on my bathroom floor using my bath rug as a blanket; allowing one of my friends to attempt to pour red wine into my mouth from a wine glass while I was lying on the floor and wearing a white sweatshirt - not a good idea; and waking up to find that one of my friends had drunkenly done my laundry...?????), so it has given me something to do while being the biggest bum in the history of America...from the previous description, I think it is clear that I am having some issues adjusting to my "grown up" life. I'm living with one of my roommates from school who is fab...we love our apartment and have a sick view of DC from the rooftop, and we're in a fun area, so the living situation is pretty good, though I would much rather be living a half mile from Olin hall. Matt D. lives really close to me, and Carly had he and Jenna and I over a while ago for dinner which was really cute...Rachel was down here last weekend, but I didn't end up being able to meet up with them which was really sad...we need to work on hanging out more regularly : )
Work is great, but I am definitely a fake engineer, which is completely okay with me since I really wasn't that good at chemE anyway haha. I don't get to see any cool equipment, or hear about awesome workplace injuries such as twisted ankles - actually, I did accidentally fall down the stairs myself a month ago, but just took a timeout on the landing and walked it off - but I do get to work on some really cool defense projects and I'm learning a ton about stuff that I know nothing about, some of it engineering related and some not. I'm thinking about going back to grad school in two years to get a masters in systems engineering, because that is what I am primarily doing at work, and I really like it even though focusing on that after a chemE undergrad could probably be considered equivalent to jumping ship from ChemE to OR, but I'm okay with it haha. But I love all of the people that I work with, and I have actually gotten to travel A LOT - I get to go overseas in the spring - and I work out of 4 different offices for three different bosses on six different projects, so my weeks FLY by. All of my bosses are 30ish and really cool, but there aren't any other "young" people at all, so I don't really hang out with people at work. I'm lucky in that I still have some high school friends in the area, and there are a couple of girls from my sorority in DC, but that has resulted in me not really making an effort to meet any new people, which probably isn't good. I go home a lot (a 15 minute drive) and to my grandparents' house a lot (25 minute drive) because I love my family, so I'm glad that I decided to stay so close.
I haven't purchased a ticket for January yet, but Kristen informed me that the prices went down a lot today, so hopefully I will have one when the day is over - I'm really excited to see everyone again, I miss everyone's very original sarcastic brand of chemE humor haha : )
Glad to hear that you all are doing well and actually using things you learned at school, unlike slacker me at this point : )
Miss everyone,
Lindsay
3 comments:
Good to hear from you Linsday. Here's a question, if you're traveling abroad in the spring, will that mean that plans may change for Reunion '09: East Coast Edition? Jaime and I believe we must discuss part II briefly during down time in part I.
Happy Turkey Season.
Since you mentioned ChemE sarcasm, your life does sound REALLY boring. I also imagined how you might read that post aloud in, for lack of a better term, valley girl talk.
haha omg i didnt know that you could leave comments on posts. i tend to write how i speak when it is not being submitted to one al center or someone at work, so i can see how you might have "heard" my post that way haha...and jason, i will probably only be gone for two weeks, so i can try to work around everything...i'll try to make sure that i can participate in cheme reunions at all costs hahaha. excited to see you guys in less than a month.
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