Well, it has been a long time since I have posted, but fear not! I'm back, I have a new layout and I'm feeling great.
It has been a rather hectic summer, with my job being rather time consuming. I worked at a call center called Livebridge in Milwaukie. I would answer calls for Fleetbank customers interested in credit cards. My job was to make sure people got a card and then try to con them into giving their debt to my bank. At first it was real entertaining. Now some of you may ask how in the world taking call after call from mindless idiots could be anything but boring, but the thrill of compition runs deep in me and I was motivated to beat my fellow employees. Also if I was able to keep my conversion numbers up I got bonus pay which was nice. However, after about two weeks of this job it got really boring and all I wanted to do was get out of there. All in all, though, there were two redeeming things about it, one is the paycheck. Its nice to have some bank saved up for college next fall. Two, towards the end of my time there I started juggling during slow days and now I can actually go for longer then one rotation of the balls. Quite fun.
The major thing in my life now is that in two short weeks I will be leaving for college. Talk about mixed feelings. Half of me is really excited about going, about being on my own, in a new place, doing new things. Then the other half is screaming don't leave your friends! Because I know that once I go things will never be the same back here in P-town. There will never be the same group with everyone going their own individual ways and the chemistry will have changed. I mean after four years of high school I have finally found a nice niche for myself, it could be better, but I ain't complaining. And now I have to go and leave it all to a completely new place. You would think that I could draw on my experience from Costa Rica to adapt well to this new environment. It will help, don't get me wrong, it is just that i had a different mindset going down there because I knew I was only staying for six months. But for College these are going to be the people I will be around for the next four years (five in my case because of my plans to hike the PCT) of my life. It is a little overwhelming think about all this.
In the next two weeks I have a lot of shopping and packing to do to make sure I am ready to go in time. Normally I would not be too intimidated by this becuase I would be able to go with my mom, but she is either gone or working most of the time so I am going to have to do it myself. Fitting I guess, since I am leaving both my parents behind in two weeks.
Right now I am currently in a small town in Iowa visiting my grandfather. The phone line doesn't work so I am completely shut off from the rest of the world (I don't even know how I am going to post this). While puttering around in the room I will be sleeping in I found an old diary of my mom's. It was quite entertaining. I think often a child's tendency is to forget that his or her parents are human beings, too, and that they have hopes, feelings and a past. It was interesting to think of my mother in different context from her being my mom and as another teenager. When ever I remember this about my parents, about how much they have riding on me and how much they have given up for me I can't help but get a little sentimental about them.
On that note I shall go to bed before I start spouting my undying love for humanity or something.
8 August 2002 02:35pm UTC • 464 views • 0 comments
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