...the full truck that is.
We loaded all my stuff onto Alex's truck today. Took a while... pulling out of the driveway took pretty long too, but now I don't have to worry about renting my own truck and driving it to Pittsburgh myself.
my room is really big without stuff in it though.
I woke up at 7am to go to the bathroom, and since my alarm was set for 8:30, I decided to just go back to bed for the extra 1.5 hours. Unfortunately, I couldn't fall asleep so I just kept laying there, relaxing. Then at 8:30 my alarm went off and I hit the snooze, like I usually do. I figured 8:30 is still too early to get up, I'll just snooze a few minutes. Well, the second I hit the snooze, I fell asleep!! I've conditioned myself to sleep through my alarm, so that when it went off, it was actually a trigger to nap! So I ended up sleeping/snoozing for another 1.5 hours.
In other news... no matter how many boxes I pack, my room still has a lot of stuff and looks like a few tornados swept through it. I keep underestimaing how heavy full boxes are... even if they are filled with nothing but comforters and coats.
My foxy dress came last night... and it's great!
Today I put up a resume on Monster and MonsterTrak. I hate making resumes. I picked up a career booklet from the Columbia "Center for Career Education" and it has all sorts of suggestions and guidelines for resumes - "don't use I," "use 'action verbs,'" and other nonsense. There's especially a guide for graduate students to translate their skills into something employable - grading exams is apparently a transferable skill. Arg. I just need money!
StreetWars: Killer - NYC
This is one of the funnier things I've heard lately.
Yay! The Bride's Maids' dresses came in! They're pretty. I'm going to have to alter mine a bit.. I hope it still looks good after :\
Is the "A" really express?? I came down the steps to the platform just to see the last car of an A train pull out of the station. I got on the "C" which is always parked across the platform and 3 minutes later we actually started moving. We stopped at 163rd (a really useless stop, considering the next one is 168!), and then on to 155th, and on to 145. To my surprise, about 10 seconds AFTER we pulled in to 145th, the "A" rolles up across the platform. So, to sum up, the A is really really freaking slow. I switched trains anyways, and we ended up passing the C by 86th street. Which means the C was faster than us from 145th to 86th streets. So the A was technicaly 5 minutes faster. Big Whoop! So annoying!
Eurika! It hit me in the midde of my linkage class last week - the perfect career that combines the 3 things I love: genetic counseling! I wanted to jump up and down in the middle of class and tell everyone, but I restrained myself.
For the longest time I've been just "going with the flow" as far as my life is concerned. Going to grad school after college just seemed like "the thing to do" because I knew I wanted more than just to be a lab technician (which is all you're qualified to be with a BA in biology). But I've never really loved research. I find it challenging and stimulating, but day to day, it's very mundane and repetitive. I convinced myself that this is what I had to do to get the kind of job I wanted - although I really had no idea what kind of job I wanted. Unfortunately, I wasn't fooling too many other people, particularly my adviser. She noticed that I wasn't totally happy and ecstatic about my work, and she sort of forced me to deal with that fact.
So, I'm going to tie up the loose ends on my project and publish my work by the end of the summer, and then I'm moving to Pittsburgh to live with Alex while he goes to Carnegie Mellon, AND, very fortunately, the University of Pittsburgh (which is across the street from CMU) has a genetic counseling program. It's a 2 year masters - first year is classes and second year is just internships at local hospitals. I'm really excited!
We've gone through the Ikea catalog and picked out the things to furnish our apartment with. It'll be so great living in a real apartment! I HATE living out of my bedroom - I sleep here, I watch TV here, I usually eat here, and I don't even have a couch or anything comfortable to sit on (except my bed of course). I hate the redundancy of living with others - multiple bottles of ketchup, cartons of milk, bags of fruit, tubs of ice cream, a million sets of dishes and utensils - there's so much wasted space! Up till now my life has been "on hold." I've been living in an academic bubble, mostly because it's safe, but it's also not at all "real life." So I'm looking forward to finally growing up. I've never really taken any risks, so there's a certain thrill in making a huge change like this. But it also feels great to have a direction, to have a career goal.
