So I finally decided to jump on the bandwagon and start a blog. Let me just put this out there in the beginning, I will ramble and my thoughts might not make much sense or flow too well, but welcome to my life and how thoughts flow in my crazy head.
I've realized that I do a lot of my best thinking in the shower, maybe that's weird, but everyone has their own special places where their thoughts just flow, and mine just happens to be the shower. Today while showering I decided I would actually put fingers to keyboard and make an entry in this blog I created to more or less stalk all of my friends post-undergrad. I've started blogs before in the past, xanga (lol) myspace, livejournal, but they never really took off and I forgot they existed about two months after I created them. Hopefully this one won't be as much of a fail as my previous ones.
Not too much has been going on in my life. I graduated from UVa with two majors and minor...how the hell I did that I still don't know. The two weeks I spent at home between the end of my lease and College Guides training was killer. I know that sounds sad that I can't handle two weeks at home, but my life over the past 4 years was, hands down, the best 4 years of my 22 years. It's just weird I guess, going from high school where I had friends and all, but not like the friends I had, scratch that, HAVE at UVa. I was always the listener growing up, people needed to bitch and rant, I listened and somehow just never opened up to anyone. Then I came to UVa and slowly I started opening up to people, and hey..look at what you guys have created!
But I guess that's what's making this post-graduation real life thing so hard for me. The people I have encountered over the past 4 years have truly helped make me the person I am today. And I just don't know how to deal with leaving them all and all that jazz. It's weird being at UVa this summer and still being connected to the University for my job, but it's starting to hit me. I never really got to say a real goodbye to Erin, and now she's in Africa for at least 2 years last I heard, so I'm pretty sad about that. Her being gone has really made it a reality that we're all separating and going our separate ways, but I know all my besties will keep in touch.
Which brings me to what I'm doing with my life. I'm working with the College Guides Program for the next two years and I'll be placed in the booming metropolis that is Pittsylvania County. I never thought I would end up back down there after graduation, but I guess it's okay. I'm doing something real with my nest two years, I know I'm going to be making a difference in people's lives, and if I have to be in rural Virginia to do it that's fine.
So yes, I'm living in Bice at UVa right now for our training, and we're at the halfway point this weekend. For the most part we just go to sessions in the morning and afternoon totaling 5 hours with one of those being for lunch, so it's not too strenuous. I'm absolutely in love with our cohort! I'm really glad I decided to do this, and I've gotten more excited for the next two years of my life. There will be complications over the next two years, but I'm trying to stay on a positive note.
I also think I've decided what I want to go to grad school for...hopefully I can get in somewhere, but that's a rant for another time.
But as for now it's time to go shopping with Catherine and get stuff for our Independence Day celebration! Beer and Brats!!!
