Well, I've moved in and become an official Hilltopper.
I have a nice roommate, which is awesome. We also have ants, which are not so awesome.
Last night was my first official partying adventure since arriving on campus. I met a lot of people from all over the place, but I don't remember many names. Everyone was really drunk, so they barely remember me either. Oh well, everyone is friendlier when they are drunk. I think I got in around 2:30, and then I was passed out. (not really, because I didn't drink last night.)
Anyways, today was my millionth trek up "The Hill", which is what our entire campus is based around. It's pretty intense...I think I will have calves of steel by Christmas Break.
The dorm's pretty nice. It's small, but cozy. Everyone compliments us on how our room smells.
Well, I'm really busy right now because it's freshman week, so I will have to tell you more about this next Tuesday after classes start.
To South Lawn I go!
x
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Oh well, Oh well.
Today was my last day of my OTHER summer job at my county Detention Center.
Last night my boss took me and my coworker-turned-bestfriend Brittany out to dinner at Olive Garden (this was my first ever Olive Garden experience, and I think I fell in love.) and then to the mall for some retail therapy. I bought a lot of crap I didn't need, but who cares.
I forgot to mention Brittany earlier when I started this blog. We started working together in June, and as soon as we met we started doing insane things. Over the past 2 months, we have taken our boss's desk gnome, scared all of the office staff, had 78069876 movie nights, and turned our last summer at home into the best one of my life. We're going to schools that are really far from each other, but we will be coming back here to work on school breaks and also plan to meet up in like Nashville for hangout time.
Back to the present: Brittany and I finished scanning all those godforsaken papers today, and decided to take our daily nap at about 10 AM. We tried to leave at about 11, but were not permitted to do so because of reasons that could not be explained to us. Needless to say, we were pretty much freaking out. When we went into the kitchen/break room area for lunch, the office staff had set us up an entire pizza party with our personal favorites (mine is hamburger, green pepper, and onion. Britt likes cheese and pepperoni) and sodas! We were really happy that they did that for us. Brittany's grandmom came to eat pizza with us, and we all just talked about the future and stuff. It didn't really hit me until then how quickly this summer has flown by. I mean, it feels like last week I was at Jailer's Conference in Bowling Green, saying "that will be my school in 3 months!"......weird.
When we finished our pizza, our boss Ricky brought out this huge cake that said "Best wishes Brittany and McCall" and gave us each a $100 gift card to Walmart. Can we say Winning?
All in all, Today was a lovely last day at work. Now it is time to go home, head back to the mall for a new hat, and finally have an actual summer vacation for.....let's see here.....three days? oh gosh.
Next time you hear from me, I will have relocated. wish me luck!
Until then.
x
Last night my boss took me and my coworker-turned-bestfriend Brittany out to dinner at Olive Garden (this was my first ever Olive Garden experience, and I think I fell in love.) and then to the mall for some retail therapy. I bought a lot of crap I didn't need, but who cares.
I forgot to mention Brittany earlier when I started this blog. We started working together in June, and as soon as we met we started doing insane things. Over the past 2 months, we have taken our boss's desk gnome, scared all of the office staff, had 78069876 movie nights, and turned our last summer at home into the best one of my life. We're going to schools that are really far from each other, but we will be coming back here to work on school breaks and also plan to meet up in like Nashville for hangout time.
Back to the present: Brittany and I finished scanning all those godforsaken papers today, and decided to take our daily nap at about 10 AM. We tried to leave at about 11, but were not permitted to do so because of reasons that could not be explained to us. Needless to say, we were pretty much freaking out. When we went into the kitchen/break room area for lunch, the office staff had set us up an entire pizza party with our personal favorites (mine is hamburger, green pepper, and onion. Britt likes cheese and pepperoni) and sodas! We were really happy that they did that for us. Brittany's grandmom came to eat pizza with us, and we all just talked about the future and stuff. It didn't really hit me until then how quickly this summer has flown by. I mean, it feels like last week I was at Jailer's Conference in Bowling Green, saying "that will be my school in 3 months!"......weird.
When we finished our pizza, our boss Ricky brought out this huge cake that said "Best wishes Brittany and McCall" and gave us each a $100 gift card to Walmart. Can we say Winning?
All in all, Today was a lovely last day at work. Now it is time to go home, head back to the mall for a new hat, and finally have an actual summer vacation for.....let's see here.....three days? oh gosh.
Next time you hear from me, I will have relocated. wish me luck!
Until then.
x
Thursday, August 11, 2011
3 years, where did you go?
Last night was the last time I would ever find myself standing at a Fulton Pic Pac cash register.
I just read that sentence like 40 times and I still cannot believe it. It feels like yesterday that I was a 15 year old girl learning the difference between a nectarine and a peach, and here I am already saying my goodbyes. Don't get me wrong, every day of that job was just another checkmark on my calendar until I made it to this day, it just doesn't feel like it has happened yet.
In the last 3 years, I've made friends, enemies, favorite customers, etc. but the most important thing is that my whole personality changed. My friend Amber (who I didn't know until I worked at Pic Pac with her) told me that when I first started, she thought I was going to cast a spell on her or something. I was depressed, obsessed with vampires, and antisocial to an alarming degree. We fought constantly, to the point of her setting my hair on fire one night because I was ignoring her.
Somehow, through all the heavy watermelons, Thanksgiving rushes, and snowball fights on aisle 3, I became a better person. I'm a lot more patient with people, I make friends easier, and I'm well known in my community. I guess it took 2 nights full of emotional goodbyes to make me realize what I was really leaving behind me.
So, to all my friends that I worked with down there, thank you for sticking beside me these last few years and scaring the living hell out of me just for the fun of it. To my enemies, thank you for showing me exactly why Pic Pac is NOT my career choice. Finally, to my mother: I will never have to look for another smock again. We can all finally chill out.
9 days feels like forever and no time at all at the same time. Why is move in day coming so quickly?
Until then.
I just read that sentence like 40 times and I still cannot believe it. It feels like yesterday that I was a 15 year old girl learning the difference between a nectarine and a peach, and here I am already saying my goodbyes. Don't get me wrong, every day of that job was just another checkmark on my calendar until I made it to this day, it just doesn't feel like it has happened yet.
In the last 3 years, I've made friends, enemies, favorite customers, etc. but the most important thing is that my whole personality changed. My friend Amber (who I didn't know until I worked at Pic Pac with her) told me that when I first started, she thought I was going to cast a spell on her or something. I was depressed, obsessed with vampires, and antisocial to an alarming degree. We fought constantly, to the point of her setting my hair on fire one night because I was ignoring her.
Somehow, through all the heavy watermelons, Thanksgiving rushes, and snowball fights on aisle 3, I became a better person. I'm a lot more patient with people, I make friends easier, and I'm well known in my community. I guess it took 2 nights full of emotional goodbyes to make me realize what I was really leaving behind me.
So, to all my friends that I worked with down there, thank you for sticking beside me these last few years and scaring the living hell out of me just for the fun of it. To my enemies, thank you for showing me exactly why Pic Pac is NOT my career choice. Finally, to my mother: I will never have to look for another smock again. We can all finally chill out.
9 days feels like forever and no time at all at the same time. Why is move in day coming so quickly?
Until then.
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