Well hello!
I would be shocked to hear that I have any "loyal" readers at this point, but I thought I would post anyway. The problem with blogging is that you have to do it regularly to tell the random short stories of life that happen, otherwise you end up writing once a year about very general life themes. This is one of those... similar to April 20, 2013 when I wrote a "Cliff Notes" update. So... here are the updates to that with a few short notes about life since then.
1) I still work at Harvard. It's not great. I am underemployed, and my job just got "restructured." I don't want to talk about it. I have been trying to get a new job for the last few years now, and nothing has worked out. I would love to actually be using the education I am in debt for, but that hasn't happened yet.
2) I still live in a house with roommates. I don't want to talk about that either. Haha. My roommate and I don't exactly get along; I've always had trouble with people because my standard of cleanliness is super high. Usually it works out ok if the semi-messy people are also nice, friendly people. Let's just say that that's not really the case at the moment, and I am desperate to find my own place. Too bad a decent studio rental starts at about $1500. I'm too poor to afford my own place, despite being 27 yrs old and working full-time. Please refer to #1. Haha. So... I spend as little time there as humanly possible. Refer to #3 for more info.
3) I am 27 now. Same things from being 25: wishing I had a real job and a real apartment. But I AM dating someone now, so that's fun! We get along well and enjoy spending time together, so I'm happy about that. For those of you who are wondering, no, he's not LDS.
4) No major local crises to write about. (Last time it was the Boston Marathon bomber manhunt etc.)
5) In July, I went home for a little while to visit with my nephews who were visiting my parents. Then I flew them back to Utah at the end of July and stayed for a couple weeks to celebrate their birthdays and see my sister's new baby, etc. It was nice to be in Utah again, but it keeps changing and getting built up and it's starting to feel kind of gross and claustrophobic.
6) I went to Charlotte in March to see Katie. It was the best! We get to talk about all kinds of things and reminisce about college, which is when we met (holy cow) almost TEN years ago.
7) I went to NYC in June for the Ivy+ Conference and got to see Sean, which was great too. We get to talk about college and how life has changed since then and what our plans are. We also met freshman year of college... Fall 2006. Yikes. I'm old.
8) Last October, I went on a road trip with my parents to Arkansas for grandpa's funeral. If you ever get the chance (which you won't, because it's in the middle of nowhere), you should stop in and see Imboden, Arkansas.
9) In late October, Megan and Chad and their kids moved into my parents' house in CT! It certainly makes for a super full house, but I finally have a sister nearby! Yay! Erin, it's time for you to move too. Just sayin'.
Seriously, the best thing I can think of to say is that I painted my
toes with new nail polish that I really like.
I don't think I have much else to report. It's pretty (un)exciting around here!
