It's been an incredibly long time since I posted; work's been crazy and even though lots has been happening, there hasn't been a whole lot to actually write about. Okay, so there's been stuff to write about, I just can't put most of it into words, but here goes the first try:
Rachel and Phillip got married on June 22 and it was really great. It was weird seeing Rachel in a wedding dress, but the day was redeemed when she put on sneakers under her wedding dress at cocktail hour.
The Friday before the wedding, a group of us went out for a bachelorette party of sorts. It ended up just being Rachel, Laura, Jess, Ashley, Diana and me at Tequila Rain, but before we got there, Diana, Ashley, Spencer, Camille and I went to Popeye's for food. Yes, we went to Popeye's on the night of the bachelorette party without the bride to be. It's not our fault she was late and we were hungry. :-)
But regardless, Tequila Rain was a LOT of fun. Unfortunately, not many of my friends are get out and dance kind of people, so without this group (almost all of whom are recent graduates and will be moving away very soon) I don't know when the next time I can go out and dance will be.
June 30th was the Pearl Jam concert and it was AMAZING! I had such a good time and can't wait until the next show (this is sooner than I expected). Just two or three days after the show, which was the last one on the tour aside from a fundraising event in NY, the TenClub announced that Eddie Vedder is going on a solo tour starting in August, and his first two stops--August 1st and 2nd--are going to be in Boston! Fan club tickets go on sale tomorrow afternoon and I already got someone to cover my work shift for me on the 2nd, so I'm pumped and ready to go (too bad it's a month away). So what if I spend a large chunk of my money this summer on concerts? It's been so long since I let myself have fun and do the things I want to do that nothing is going to stop me from doing exactly THAT this summer.
Speaking of having fun and doing what I want to do...I'm going to the beach at some point this summer whether anyone wants to go with me or not! I work on weekends, which really sucks mind you, but I'm hoping that means that if I go to the beach on my days off (Tuesday or Wednesday) there won't be as many people there. No such luck because I've realized that most teenagers around here don't work full-time in the summer the way I did when I was in high school, so I'm sure it will still be packed. Regardless, I'm going to go--I need some sun and relaxation.
Oh, and speaking of relaxation and my need for it...I have another stomach ulcer. Yesterday it once again felt like some wild animal was trying to gnaw its way out of my stomach. I know, it's gross, but that's how it felt. It was hurting so bad that it stopped me from going out with Ashley and Rachel last night, which really sucks considering Rachel is leaving in a couple of weeks. But I'm back in the groove of taking my medicine before I eat and I'm working hard on letting go of all the bullshit I'm dealing with at work, which, let me tell you, is building up like you wouldn't believe.
Never in my life have I been treated so poorly by an employer. It's crazy because these are the same employers I had last summer and things weren't like this. I'm not sure what happened over the course of the last year, but something obviously did. These people that I loved working with and for last summer now make me want to get on a train and head back to North Carolina almost every day. I'm so sick of being treated like crap by the people who absolutely depend on me and the rest of the dorm staff to make the program work. We're the "hired help" on the bottom of the totem pole and they don't give a rat's ass about us. They treat us like lepers 90% of the time and then want us to kiss ass when they're around. I give everything I have to my job, but I'm not doing that anymore when all it's getting me is a whole lot of stress and scraps from the back of the kitchen (that's not even hyperbole). At this point, I'm going to invest just enough of me to get by with what I'm required to do and I'm going to do as much as I can to get a nice paycheck, but beyond that, I'm not investing myself in this. This summer is about ME and what I want to do.
Hopefully I won't be so invested in work once I meet with C.A. on Wednesday about doing some psych research with her this summer. My other research opportunity fell through and I was intially just going to put all of my time into this job, but it's all too obvious that isn't the right plan. So I'm meeting her for lunch on Wednesday and hopefully she's doing research on which she could use another hand/brain/set of eyes. I love C.A. and I'd love to get involved with her research even though it's not exactly the line of psych into which I want to get involved ultimately. Right now I just want to work in the field a bit so that I can show prospective grad schools that I can do the work and that I'm good at it. I'll probably only go in a couple of days a week (NOT on my days off, mind you). The good thing for me is that my dorm staff job is from 2:30-8:30 every day, so I can go do research at like 9 a.m. and then come to work at 2:30. Granted, this will put a lot on my plate, but it will also get me out of bed and doing something productive with myself. I'm looking forward to it.
Also, I've gone a few dates, though they've been nothing to write home about. Despite that, I've realized how much being single has affected my overall view of Boston. Now that I'm single I'm discovering a whole side of Boston that only previously existed for me in lore. All of the things I had hoped Boston would be are all there, I just couldn't see them before. Where I used to think that there was no way I'd ever stay in New England or a city, I'm starting to reconsider. I might even stay up this way for grad school, and maybe even beyond. We'll just have to see.
I've made a wonderful new friend named Janice. She moved here from Wisconsin less than a year ago so she still has that desire to explore that most of my friends have lost or never had. Now that I'm single and have that side of me back, I'm so excited to have someone to explore with. We've only hung out a few times, but each time we've done something/gone somewhere that I hadn't previously done/been and it's been a blast! Hmm...I doubt it's possible, but I wonder if I can talk her into taking off one Tuesday or Wednesday and going to the beach with me...I'll have to work on that.
I've been here a month and I leave in another month and a week, so I want to really get going on some of the stuff I'd been planning to do but for which I hadn't yet made time. It's time now. :-)I'm going to make the most of it.
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