whats up

update:

critter is gone. im not sure how that happened.
Im taking mandarin. Theres only one other person under thirty besides myself, everyone else is old, retired, and white. but I convinced boyfriend to take it with me, so thats good.
I interviewed for a job at a construction company today. I would be analyzing concrete and rocks for quality control. It was 16 an hour and it didnt sound too bad until he mentioned it could be up to 15 hours a day and 60 hours of overtime a week. er...no thanks. but the plus side is that i totally rocked that highschool math test i had to take. (by highschool i mean math i did in fourth grade)
I have another interview for a teller at a bank tomorrow. only 10 an hour if that, but its inside and doesnt involve working with truck drivers and miners (no offense to miners, dad's from west virginia)
I am still hoping for that plant tech job with osu, pretty flexible and 10 an hour, but I havent heard anything yet so I may email again.
other than that, not much. we got season 3 of entourage today! if you havent seen it, watch it.

Theres something in the attic

I woke up in the middle of the night a couple nights ago to a faint scratchin above my head. As I woke further, the noise got louder, and progressed to thumping, and then a lot of scurrying. Now this was no quiet thing. It was quite loud enough to keep me up, and I'm convinced that it's got to be a rat. But for the sake of my sanity, we'll call it a squirrel. I'm not sure what its doing up there, it sounds like either it is trying to dig up some hidden treasures in the rafters, or he is merely keeping fit by doing laps around the attic. scurry scurry scurry across the ceiling. We tried knocking on the walls, then hitting, then literally banging on the walls to try and scare the critter out of our attic. But all that accomplished was a short pause between scratches, pauses that got significantly shorter as it realized nothing was coming for it. Finally the episode culminated with boyfriend standing on the bed and banging on the ceiling with the maglight. That seemed to work, and we fell asleep, only to be woken by the same sound (and probably the same critter) 2 hours later. We went straight to maglight, and it worked, but last night there were critter noises yet again. Boyfriend wants to kill whatever is, I'm hoping if we keep hitting the ceiling it will stop coming back, but I dont really want to wake up every night just to attend to a restless critter. I'm not ready to be a mother, and definetely not to some ocd'ed out squirrel.

my days

What do I do all day you may ask? Well....

I wake up around 1130. (though yesterday I woke up at 10!). Then I clean up and have a light breakfast while watching my friends DVD. Boyfriend comes home for lunch around 1 for about an hour. Then I do laundry or dishes or hem pants or watch friends and look for jobs or apartments. I may drive around to check out places for rent. I read newsweek or the nyt (which we get for free from the dispensor thats broken =) and sometimes meet boyfriend for tea at the beanery around 330. He gets off work at 5, and we make dinner and watch netflix movies or do the nyt crossword, play backgammon or watch arrested development. He sleeps around 11, and I read until maybe 1230. He gets up at 830, and we repeat!

PS-they offer tennis classes at the community college, 2 hours twice a week for 10 weeks. Im signing up! and im really looking forward to it getting warmer, so I can play tennis, golf, run, etc. And yes, that job hunting is commencing but I hate the concept of my future job depending so much on my word choice on a piece of paper. Did you know I can work at the post office for $20/hr? Cool!

Yesterday boyfriend replaced his sisters brake pads and routers. I helped a bit, and learned some cool stuff about cars. And i officially jacked a car and removed a tire!

grey and cloudy

I know i've speant most of my time in LA missing the rainy drizzly grey skies that cover most of mukilteo 7 months of the year. but now im here in oregon, similar weather, and i find that its making me more gloomy and frustrated than contented. Some of which I'm sure is a result of not having any clear goals for each day. I've speant year after year with the structure of school, and I know im going back, but i really want to learn to enjoy this free time. and I hope i can, soon.

Last monday I was watching super nanny on abc....something i should probably not like or enjoy but find much guilty pleasure in. And last semester I discovered to my embarressment that I enjoyed flipping through my roommates people and usweekly...when i should be reading newsweek and nyt.

baby

there are some days i really want one of these...can you blame me? boyfriend's brother has a baby thats 2 months old, and last time we visited i got to hold him and feed him and he fell asleep in my arms. sigh. =)

being lazy

So its now well into february and i can say that i have not really accomplished a whole lot in the tangible sense of the word. I pretend i'm working when I clean or look for an apartment to move to, and occasionally scroll through job postings, but the truth of the matter is I am absolutely loving this do nothing time and it has been so much fun and relaxing. Though the part of me that feels the need to always be doing something feels really guilty about it, but for the most part i've managed to push those feelings away. Oregon has been great, with the small town feel and walking to get coffee or thai food, and living with the boyfriend has been so great as well, better than i expected. i do miss LA, and all the places to eat and go and shop there, but oregon does offer some of these things, theyre just an hour away. This weekend we made a trip to portland, and had lunch and bought spices at Penzeys and uwajimaya and had so much fun browsing through food and shopping. We love the cooking, and the shopping is almost as fun.

but i think this week ill apply for that lab tech position, ugh. im going to miss my free afternoons watching tv and reading and sleeping in till noon. literally.

life

yay! in a very good and happy place right now. I got into medschool (rochester in new york) and im moving in with my boyfriend this week! life, right now, seems to be going perfectly. i am so excited for it all. i want to go to europe before med school. so i gotta save up some money and hehe touring europe baby! i cant wait. im bubbly.

i wonder what kind of job im going to get in ol' corballis.

<3

life...

Sigh.

That pretty much sums it up.