In much better spirits these days. I have found a job - yay! They're waiting to hear back on my drug test and background check, and I should start either tomorrow or Wednesday. I'll be working for Avis at the airport. Not the best career, but it's a job. And it pays more than I was making. And I'll get a company car. And they'll pay for me to go back to school, which is exactly the benefit I'm looking for right now. I'm through talking about it, I just want to be back in school. I'm looking through programs now, and I think I've decided on a Masters in Psych. Once I have that I can be a counselor and from there work on my Ph.D. So I've got the plan now, I just have to stick to it. With any luck, I'll be able to fast track everything. I'd like to have my MA finished by the time Tom finishes his BA (three years) that way we can move the hell out of Indiana. Over the last few months I've really grown to dislike it here. I'm craving culture and civilization lately. Theatres, comedy, people, museums. No longer content to hang out and drink beer listening to the latest NASCAR scores. Not sure where we're going. We've talked about Seattle a lot. Maybe back to Chicago, or maybe even the east coast. We just both really want to get out of the midwest. Of course we've got a long while to figure it out. We are planning a trip to Seattle next summer, though.

Me and Tom are still going stong. Having a few problems mostly related to the long-distance situation, which will be over in less than a month. We ran into a big problem the last time he came down but we dealt with it. A lot of it is really about God, and as always his family his at the middle of everything. I didn't think it would be so hard for a non-believer to be in a relationship with a believer. Because, though I understand his motives and actions, it's incredibly hard for me to empathize. What really surprises me though is that one of the things that I love most about him is the same thing that causes me so much frustration: his relationship with his family. I'm not close with mine, I never have been. I don't understand the drive or need to please the family to such an extent that it interferes with your relationship. I don't understand why it's so hard to say "no." Furthermore, he's terriffied of coming out to them, and that too is something I no longer remember - though I know I was every bit as frightened. We really are opposites, which is why I think we work so well together.

Anyway, I guess that's my monthly check-in.
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