i'm so glad yesterday is over.
yesterday was a long long day. orientation was helpful--i got advising out of the way, met people, and was told why i should be very afraid, even though it'll be fun but stressful but fun. the incoming class of students seems huge--it's about 55 people, with a ratio of women to men at about 10:1. this would be a great place for all five guys in the program to pick up chicks if, you know, they were interested in that.
everyone i met was so incredibly nice that i again wonder if i'm too cynical for this program. i'm nice but in a make fun of you till you nearly cry or want to throw things at me and then tell you i'm just kidding and offer to help you sorta way. that's probably not so acceptable when i'm dealing with clients and especially after i signed that code of ethics thingie that i need to remember to read sometime. do you people know how scary it is to hear that i'm going to have clients? as of this fall when i start my field placement? that sounds so grown up! as if.
and i really need to find the warped sense of humor people. i know they're out there. they can't all be sugary sweet. can they?
so yesterday was also good because i started to feel better, sort of i think. the hacking cough has been replaced with sneezing and i'm totally hopeful that the germs are being evicted. i've never been so thankful for sneezing in my life.
also also last night alvin did something quite unprecedented and helped clean the house which i was completely grateful for because, for instance, in our living room it looked like the christmas tree exploded:
which it kind of did. that's what happened when i took the ornaments and lights off the dead tree a week ago, and it probably wouldn't have happened if i didn't have to undo alvin's lighting display. i forget this every year (note to self: remember next time), but he likes wrapping christmas trees up and down with lights. most people, they stop with the lights when they get to the top. alvin, he gets to the top and goes back down. i think he wanted to see whether he could make the tree catch fire. it didn't, but getting the many light strands off the dead branches caused all the needles to poke holes in me and then fall to the floor.
i vacuumed up most of it until the vacuum was like, fuck this i quit, and then i was like, yeah me too. i left the rest of the pine needles on the floor and just frequently glared at that one corner of the room for not being clean. alvin made everything better by fixing the vacuum and then really truly vacuuming, which i totally didn't expect. i asked him to sweep the stairs and when he ended up sweeping & vacuuming it made my night. god, i never thought i'd say something that sad. yay, marriage.
(other note to self: buy fake christmas tree.)
everyone i met was so incredibly nice that i again wonder if i'm too cynical for this program. i'm nice but in a make fun of you till you nearly cry or want to throw things at me and then tell you i'm just kidding and offer to help you sorta way. that's probably not so acceptable when i'm dealing with clients and especially after i signed that code of ethics thingie that i need to remember to read sometime. do you people know how scary it is to hear that i'm going to have clients? as of this fall when i start my field placement? that sounds so grown up! as if.
and i really need to find the warped sense of humor people. i know they're out there. they can't all be sugary sweet. can they?
so yesterday was also good because i started to feel better, sort of i think. the hacking cough has been replaced with sneezing and i'm totally hopeful that the germs are being evicted. i've never been so thankful for sneezing in my life.
also also last night alvin did something quite unprecedented and helped clean the house which i was completely grateful for because, for instance, in our living room it looked like the christmas tree exploded:
which it kind of did. that's what happened when i took the ornaments and lights off the dead tree a week ago, and it probably wouldn't have happened if i didn't have to undo alvin's lighting display. i forget this every year (note to self: remember next time), but he likes wrapping christmas trees up and down with lights. most people, they stop with the lights when they get to the top. alvin, he gets to the top and goes back down. i think he wanted to see whether he could make the tree catch fire. it didn't, but getting the many light strands off the dead branches caused all the needles to poke holes in me and then fall to the floor.
i vacuumed up most of it until the vacuum was like, fuck this i quit, and then i was like, yeah me too. i left the rest of the pine needles on the floor and just frequently glared at that one corner of the room for not being clean. alvin made everything better by fixing the vacuum and then really truly vacuuming, which i totally didn't expect. i asked him to sweep the stairs and when he ended up sweeping & vacuuming it made my night. god, i never thought i'd say something that sad. yay, marriage.
(other note to self: buy fake christmas tree.)
posted by sarah at 8:02 AM
2 Comments:
That tree picture cracks me up. So, he wraps it up good and tight eh?
We bought our tree the week before Christmas and then got rid of it the day after New Years. I wouldn't even bother with a tree, but Trav wanted one really bad.
THere have got to be other cynical people in your program. At the very least you'll meet 1 person whose there just so they can fuck with people later on in life. I mean, it could be you, but ya never know---there may be another.
yep, he wraps until i make him stop, and then he resumes wrapping when i'm not looking.
and i don't want to fuck with people so much, i just want an outlet for dealing with the niceness. there's only so much niceness i can take. at the very least, i need someone to help me mock people. because that's what it's all about.
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