Wednesday, November 3, 2010
$1,724.50
That's the going rate to get an idiot out of your life. Worth the cost? Every. Damn. Penny.
Rejecting Illinois' advances
This place feels weird this week.
Maybe it's because I had such an amazing weekend with a lot of my closest friends. It was seriously amazing. We didn't do anything too terribly special, but I was so upset about leaving that I even cried in front of a few of them before I left. (And that's saying something, because I don't cry in front of people.) Most of my way back here was spent scheming different ways that I could just stay there. (Let's just say some of the plans were clearly ridiculous and that there is no feasible way for me to still get paid and play in Rolla until December.)
This week just feels like I'm working as a travelling engineer. Like, you know when a company ships you to a remote location for the duration of a project and you actually have a home somewhere else? Just like I'd imagine that being. I still talk at work like I live in Missouri. I even have Missouri plates on my new car. I still support the Missouri Tigers (and the Cardinals, obviously), even though someone generally writes the word "Sucks" on my dry erase board over the word Tigers nearly every week. I talk about St. Charles with words like, "home", "my house" (even though it's my parents) and "my stomping grounds". I still have a core group of friends in St. Charles that I visit whenever possible. I talk about the DOL house in Rolla like I still live there and call it "my house". I call my friends there my roommates, even though we haven't actually been roommates for 6 months now. And truth be told, it feels like I haven't left when I'm there. I wonder if anybody here has caught on?
I've mentioned to one of the guys here that I'm a 'city girl' and not a 'small town girl' on the one day I've been out of my little office cube. He said he kind of figured that. I wonder if anyone else has figured that out? And if so, are they kind of expecting me to leave soon? I kind of almost hope so, it'd make quitting my first job so much easier.
193 days until my lease is up.
Maybe it's because I had such an amazing weekend with a lot of my closest friends. It was seriously amazing. We didn't do anything too terribly special, but I was so upset about leaving that I even cried in front of a few of them before I left. (And that's saying something, because I don't cry in front of people.) Most of my way back here was spent scheming different ways that I could just stay there. (Let's just say some of the plans were clearly ridiculous and that there is no feasible way for me to still get paid and play in Rolla until December.)
This week just feels like I'm working as a travelling engineer. Like, you know when a company ships you to a remote location for the duration of a project and you actually have a home somewhere else? Just like I'd imagine that being. I still talk at work like I live in Missouri. I even have Missouri plates on my new car. I still support the Missouri Tigers (and the Cardinals, obviously), even though someone generally writes the word "Sucks" on my dry erase board over the word Tigers nearly every week. I talk about St. Charles with words like, "home", "my house" (even though it's my parents) and "my stomping grounds". I still have a core group of friends in St. Charles that I visit whenever possible. I talk about the DOL house in Rolla like I still live there and call it "my house". I call my friends there my roommates, even though we haven't actually been roommates for 6 months now. And truth be told, it feels like I haven't left when I'm there. I wonder if anybody here has caught on?
I've mentioned to one of the guys here that I'm a 'city girl' and not a 'small town girl' on the one day I've been out of my little office cube. He said he kind of figured that. I wonder if anyone else has figured that out? And if so, are they kind of expecting me to leave soon? I kind of almost hope so, it'd make quitting my first job so much easier.
193 days until my lease is up.
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