Today's the Day!

We finally get to move in to our new apartment today!! The woman who lived here before us had lived here as a shut in - that smoked - for six years, so we had to wait an extra couple of weeks to allow for extensive cleaning before we could get in. It's still not perfect, as we have no blinds, but we're excited to get moved out of the boxes that we packed last month and into our new place. I'm here alone right now because I came over to meet the Charter guy and Michelle's parents hadn't shown up yet. The weather is beautiful and we're hoping to get everything done by the end of the day....

Nostalgia

I just finished helping my mom create Karen's CSB quilt square, and it brought back tons of memories. The CSB quilt is a tradition that has been carried on for many years, and I had my own square four years ago. To the family of each incoming Saint Ben's student is sent a linen square that the family then decorates. When the squares are sent back to CSB, they are put in to one of five large frames, each of which is sectioned off to hold a number of the first year squares. The frames stretch down a long hallway in our campus rec center, facing a wall of windows so that everyone who walks by can see them, and they stay up all year. It's a fun tradition, and most new Bennies know where their square is by memory within a couple of weeks. In the first month or so of school, walking by the quilt and touching my square was a nice connection with home... I'm hoping the same will hold true with Karen.

I Think I'm Allergic... to Minnesota

I came home on Tuesday night to spend about a week with my family, and ever since I got here my nose has been running and my head and body have been aching. I recognize these symptoms as symptoms of allergies, and they didn't show up until I got home earlier this week! I guess it's something different growing around here or something in the air that's doing this to me, but the week has not been quite as good as I anticipated. Hopefully this will all clear up when I head back home, because trying to move in to my new apartment with this would suck.

Decision Time

So the interviewing is going well... I have a couple of follow-up interviews and one firm job offer. The problem is that I have no clue what I want to do with the next few years of my life and therefore have no clue what I'm going to do. I'm positive that one of the jobs shall not be in my future. However, I need to decide if I want to be in the commission-based world of employment because both of the other jobs are commission based. Any advice? What do you think about working on commission? Is it miserable? Can I make it that world?

Let The Fun Begin

Today I started packing up my place and moving everything over to the house where I'm temporarily storing it all... You'd think that I would have remembered how much I hate trying to pack everything neatly, leaving the stuff that I need out and putting away everything that doesn't play a vital role in my life, but I conveniently pushed the memory of moving out here from my mind. It doesn't help that it's 100+ degrees again, and that I have no one to help me this time. I managed one car-ful of things before I quit for the morning; this afternoon has to see at least two more trips over or I'll never get all of my stuff taken care of before I come home to MN for a little while!

Interviews, Interviews

Today I walked back in to my apartment after spending some time at the pool and my phone rang. I was dripping wet and my cat desperately wanted my attention, but I answered the phone anyway. Twenty minutes later, I had completed a phone interview and scheduled a face-to-face interview for next Monday morning. In the middle of my call to a friend to share the news, I got another phone call from a number that I didn't recognize. Twenty minutes later... yup, another phone interview completed and another face-to-face interview set up for tomorrow. Tomorrow. That's kind of quick.

I haven't done a job interview in well over a year and a half, and I'm slightly apprehensive about the whole situation. The jobs I'm interviewing for are both commission based, which is a totally different ball game than any other professional field I've been in thus far. My heart is not necessarily set on getting either of the positions, but I care enough that I want to make a good impression and walk away knowing that I'd done the best I could. Offers for the jobs wouldn't be bad either...

Well, here's hoping tomorrow ends up being a good day!

One More Day...

After more than a week of 100+ degree weather, I am more than ready for a cool down. It looks like we're in for one more day of this gross, sticky, hotter than necessary weather and then - hallelujah! - it's supposed to drop back down to the low-to-mid-eighties. On days like these, I can't even process how lucky I am to have an air conditioner and a place to stay...