things are ok

[Friday Aug 12]

I’ve committed to the lab I’ve been rotating in..after getting turned down by my first choice. It stung. A lot. I was told it was a funding issue, but I know for a fact another student had joined since I worked there last summer. Dunno if he had rotated before or after me, and don’t really care at this point (that’s a lie, I intend to find out). I just wish I had been notified earlier so I could have given 100% to my next rotation, which I sure as hell did not up until now. Maybe I should have done a third one, but it’s too late to think about that. It’s done. And it’ll be for the best, because I fucking say so. 

I’m settling in (nesting, as my co-worker calls it), finally making the work my own, and this has made all the difference. 

In the meantime I’ve been enjoying the gorgeous weather and making an effort to be social. Spent tonight smoking hookah with T and B at the little stone table set outside my apartment, then visited our favorite bar, conveniently located down the street. It was packed with the new incoming first-year class. They arrived in batches and formed one giant cluster on the patio. None of us felt like making small talk tonight, so we sat at a little satellite table, apart from the crowd, but close enough to overhear the stream of customary exchanges – "so where are you from? where did you go to undergrad? Oh, my friend so-and-so went there, did you know him?"  They’re getting their white coats tomorrow. It’s kinda cute. 

[Today Aug 16]

Things are still ok. Maybe even better than ok. I put in a 12 hour day today, but it felt good, and I’m cautiously optimistic about the work. I’ve started cooking again (made some yummy BBQ chicken wings in my slow cooker on Monday). J is coming this weekend and we’ve plans to use my Groupon for a dinner cruise on the Mississippi, which sounds exciting. This Thursday our program’s hosting a social event at a water park, that will be reserved just for us students after 4 pm (how cool is that!?). I failed at purchasing a new bathing suit for the occasion, but hopefully my tankini and boy-shorts combo still fits well enough – I’ve no desire to put my naughty bits on display for my classmates and program administrators, lol. Anyway, that should be a good time as well. The one thing I’m not looking forward to is the start of graduate school classes. Orientation events are already cutting into the time I was planning to take off next week; and we only got 2 weeks notice that any of this crap was going down, wtf!? I guess meeting some new classmates shouldn’t be too bad. Hopefully there’ll be plenty of free food too..

OK, seeing as it’s going to be another busy day tomorrow, it is officially bedtime for me.