Well now, what neglect! I haven't written a thing in practically a week! For shame! Well, I have to say, one thing about having a 9-5 is that nights seem awfully short. In part because I'm going to sleep rather early and also because by the time work is done it's practically night and about 3/4ths of the day are over. Of course, it has its virtues in contrast to university. Take, for instance, the fact that, while you often only need to go to class for 4-6 hours a day, the rest of the day is possibly spent doing school work. Not to mention, weekends are also met with the same kind of industry, whereas in the workplace, the weekend is yours in its entirety.
But enough about such trifles! And what's with this scholastic tone? haha. Anyway, this week has been pretty normal at work. Save for monday, where we had the office party. That was fun. I was able to leave work a bit early, which is fine in its own right, but then I truly feasted at the party. My goodness, such a large amount of delicious food. There was a spinach lasagna and some chicken parmigiana (sp?) and some really good home fries like potatoes and salad and bread and it was just great. Afterwards, they took the covers off of the tables to reveal a bunch of pool tables... and brought in dessert!!! Two courses worth, but I had had so much food that I barely had enough space in my stomach for some of the first course, which, frankly, was good enough for me: marshmallows, crackers, chocolate cookies, strawberries and whatnot, and next to it... melted chocolaaaaaate!!!! Oh, also that night, after losing 2 games of pool and winning another one, I played table-top shuffle for the very first time. It was fun and cool.
I know I'm backtracking now but I remembered that I went to church on sunday and that was notable but I was already talking about monday so I kept on talking about it but now I wanna go back to sunday, k? ok! Well yes, sunday morning I went to church. I had to walk to it but it's not all that far away and the weather was fair so I decided to go for it. I found the church with no problem and it was a nice experience. I was given a ride back, which is good coz at that point it was raining and walking back under the rain would've been kind of bad. The service was interesting too. It was far more liturgical and protocol based than I'm used to but still enjoyable. I had previously had dinner with the pastor and his personality gave me a completely different image than I saw at the service. Not at all in terms of hypocrisy or anything like that. It's just he was so lively and youthful and I normally connect such liturgical style services with elderly, serious priests. Still, I like hymns so, at least, the music was to my liking, hehe. Ah yes, and the pastor lent me a jacket coz I left all my big ones at Rochester. Thankfully, the other co-op went to rochester randomly that night and was thoughtful enough to get me my jackets! He's a cool guy.
Oh, I also did laundry on sunday and, lo and behold, I spent more money than I normally would have had to and the dryers did suck. At least the one I used for 1 of my loads. I spent more money because 1) one of the washers ate like 3 of my quarters T_T and 2) because I had to run the dryer twice for one of the loads. Rawr, but what can I do? At least I got my clothes clean and dry and put awa- ok, not yet and omg, I know it's thursday and I haven't put my clothes away, what a terrible habit! Ah but as I said at the beginning, living on your own has its virtues :P. Anywho, work is going well. It's work after all, but at the very least, I'm learning a lot and being useful, even if little by little. I'm a bit :/ because my teammates haven't really "integrated" me into the group. I still very much feel like an outsider, but of course, that's because I am, I'm just an intern that's gonna be there for 6 months and I've only been there for a week and a half. I would, however, appreciate being asked to go to lunch with them every so often. In part it makes me wonder if it's me that's not doing something, but I'm sure it's just the fact that they're already a strong clique and I'm certainly not in there to break that. So, I suppose there's nothing for me to do but wait until I slowly meld in as part of the troupe. Thankfully, I'm not really in there alone, and there's the other co-op dude and we go to lunch together sometimes. In any case, I don't feel bad about not being part of the group yet. I know it's only a matter of time, and even if it's not, I don't feel lonely or anything. This is still a very transitional period and I understand that so having IM and a phone is good enough until I make some local friends :D
Ah, I'm sure there's probably things I'm leaving out, but I think it'll be ok for now. Ta-ta~
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