One Day at a Time

Here's to the start of a new day. Right now things are kind of in a state of transition. I have one more month of rent here in Corvallis and then I will move permanently back home. Moving back home wasn't my first choice but honestly I'd be completely null not to accept an offer of free rent and groceries. At least until I get on my feet with a job etc.

Speaking of jobs, I actually have an interview for McMenamins this afternoon and also one for Trader Joe's on Friday. I am having a hard time deciding which one I'd rather work for. I think Trader Joe's is probably the better company to work for though. I think I may also submit applications to Whole Foods and New Seasons. I like grocery stores... It's a minor fetish. I am excited to have a "real world" job. Not that I haven't had jobs before, but now it's different. I don't have to juggle school and a job. I can instead shift to juggling a social life and a job. A social life.... What is that? For the past four years I have completely abandoned a social life, preferring a 4.0 instead. There's a very large possibility I may have forgotten how to make friends. To make matters slightly worse, I have put a deposit down on a kitten to adopt at the end of April. So if I really have forgotten how to make friends, I can just become a cat lady instead. Boom. Problem solved.

Getting a job has been an interesting process. I don't have any experience as a server or in a grocery store but I hear tips are pretty epic in the restaurant business and I have to start somewhere. I am hoping that perseverance will pay off and maybe they will just get annoyed with me checking back in that they'll just hire me. Fingers crossed. I will post later how the interview went. Wish me luck people out there in the world wide web, who really probably don't give a rat's ass. But hey, imagining people are wishing me luck boosts my confidence a little.

Ps this is a picture of my soon to be kitten. I am open to witty cat name suggestions. Currently in the running are 1) Smudge/Smidgeon 2) Bear 3) Charlie. 

What's this all about

One week ago I graduated from college. And one week and one second ago I left the protective bubble of my undergraduate education and stepped into the real world. No one ever tells you what awaits after you take the leap of faith that is graduation. And I saw leap of faith because it takes guts and no small amount of courage to step away from the parties, the hand holding from professors and parents, and all facets of the school environment which has sheltered us since kindergarten.

No one tells you what awaits or how to be an adult. Frankly, the mental image I still hold of myself is that of a seventeen year old, and I am not entirely sure if that will ever change. Which is perfectly okay with me, who wants to grow up and wear stuffy clothing and pay bills anyways. Yet, one can't always hide beneath this facade.

No one ever tells you what to expect. You tell people you're graduating and receive congratulatory responses but nothing more. Congratulations are great, but they aren't going to do a damn thing for me when I'm faced with my first real bill or need to schedule my own doctor's appointment. So, as I was sitting there thinking, approximately one week and one second ago, I decided that maybe something should be done about this. Maybe, I'd start recording my day to day life in this thing people call the real world. Heck, I'd probably be ten steps ahead of where I am now if I had some concrete example going into this situation. So, to anyone who may perchance stumble across these words and entries, I hope that I may serve as some sort of example and source of brevity during a daunting time of what I see as the real transition between childhood and real adulthood.