Wednesday, November 20, 2002
Nine months later, Nichole blogs. I know I'm not consistent at all, but what can you do??
Anyway, I just read my first (and only blog) and I don't think it's as harsh as some people seemed to think it was. It wasn't actually ever meant to offend anyone. In all honesty I was going through a serious case of the dumps...I was failing a class, having some other problems, and in general was questioning the last year and a half of my life. What I really wanted was to go back to when life was easy and I could go home when I got mad at someone. Anywho...sorry if I offended you. :-)
On that note, I'm going home on Friday. :-) Yay!!! I haven't seen my family since August, so I think it's about time. With any luck I will catch up with a couple of old friends too. I'm also making a special guest appearance at good ole' LHS for Mr. T. He asked if I would come in to talk to his pre-engineering class about my engineering experience. Gotta think up something for that one...maybe that will be my project for the drive home on Friday...The downside to going home is that the Hotel Nichole has no vacancies. My sister and my nephew moved back to my house at the beginning of the fall, so I no longer have a room at my house. Hopefully I won't end up sleeping on the sofa. The real fun will be when Nat gets there on the Friday before Thanksgiving. I have a feeling that the house will be bursting at the seams. My dad was telling me the other day that if I planned on moving back in ever they would have to buy a bigger house. Fortunately for them I will never again live at home for more than a couple of weeks at a time.
I'm a little nervous about going home. As a lot of you know my dog has been epilleptic since the very beginning of my freshman year in college. Well, just a month or so ago she was diagnosed with diabetes as well. We are supposed to be puting her to sleep, but as far as I know they haven't done that yet. I'm a little afraid to see her, but part of me kind of wants to, just to say goodbye. No more psycho Shelby I guess. It's weird because I'm not really much of a dog person, but I did train her and she was a good dog for me...just not anyone else. It will be sad to see her go...especially since that's probably the last dog I will ever have...Nat and I went to bed the other night and I spent a good 45 mins or so crying about it. I think it kind of freaked him out because he didn't know what to do. In the end he just kind of held me and let me cry. He's pretty good at stuff like that. Then we had this conversation about whether dogs go to Heaven or not. Personally, I'm a fan of the belief that all animals go to Heaven because they are all creatures of God. Nat seems to think that they don't have a soul and therefore when they die that's it. I don't really know...maybe I still have a bit of a two year old mentality when it comes to my animals...what do you all think?
On a completely different note. I have a job lined up for this summer. I'm going to be a technical marketing intern for Caterpillar in Peoria, IL. If you want to know what an engineer does in technical marketing ask me sometime...I don't really feel like explaining it in here. :) I don't really know what it is with me working in Illinois over the summer. I'm not really that fond of the state, and I'm pretty sure that I don't want to live there permantly, but it's where the job offers have been, so thus that is where I go. I'm pretty excited...the pay is good, plus this year I will have roomates and be old enough to go out with all the interns. (6 months and 10 days till I'm 21!!!) Should be a good summer.
Tomorrow wraps up one crazy quarter for me. It's been pretty hectic. Nat is looking for a job, which takes up a lot more of my time and energy than one might think. Not so much that I have to sit there and physically look for stuff with him, but we talk a lot and then I spend a fair amount of time thinking about it away from him. It's weird to think that he won't be here next year, but unless something major changes he will be around forever after that. So in that way it kind of matters where he ends up...trust me, I don't want to live in Timbuktu or anything!!! :-)
Aside from that, we had rush this quarter. 23 brand new Chi Omegas!!! I'm pretty excited to get to know all of them. They all seem like really cool girls. Rush (or recruitment so as not to upset to the Panhellenic gods) really dominates a lot more time than one might think. But it's over now and I think it went well.
Guess that's all from here. Maybe I'll try to post more frequently. I can think of a million and one things to say, but it's late and I'm tired and should go to bed. One more final to go and then I'm done for the quarter!!! Yay!!!
Anyway, I just read my first (and only blog) and I don't think it's as harsh as some people seemed to think it was. It wasn't actually ever meant to offend anyone. In all honesty I was going through a serious case of the dumps...I was failing a class, having some other problems, and in general was questioning the last year and a half of my life. What I really wanted was to go back to when life was easy and I could go home when I got mad at someone. Anywho...sorry if I offended you. :-)
On that note, I'm going home on Friday. :-) Yay!!! I haven't seen my family since August, so I think it's about time. With any luck I will catch up with a couple of old friends too. I'm also making a special guest appearance at good ole' LHS for Mr. T. He asked if I would come in to talk to his pre-engineering class about my engineering experience. Gotta think up something for that one...maybe that will be my project for the drive home on Friday...The downside to going home is that the Hotel Nichole has no vacancies. My sister and my nephew moved back to my house at the beginning of the fall, so I no longer have a room at my house. Hopefully I won't end up sleeping on the sofa. The real fun will be when Nat gets there on the Friday before Thanksgiving. I have a feeling that the house will be bursting at the seams. My dad was telling me the other day that if I planned on moving back in ever they would have to buy a bigger house. Fortunately for them I will never again live at home for more than a couple of weeks at a time.
I'm a little nervous about going home. As a lot of you know my dog has been epilleptic since the very beginning of my freshman year in college. Well, just a month or so ago she was diagnosed with diabetes as well. We are supposed to be puting her to sleep, but as far as I know they haven't done that yet. I'm a little afraid to see her, but part of me kind of wants to, just to say goodbye. No more psycho Shelby I guess. It's weird because I'm not really much of a dog person, but I did train her and she was a good dog for me...just not anyone else. It will be sad to see her go...especially since that's probably the last dog I will ever have...Nat and I went to bed the other night and I spent a good 45 mins or so crying about it. I think it kind of freaked him out because he didn't know what to do. In the end he just kind of held me and let me cry. He's pretty good at stuff like that. Then we had this conversation about whether dogs go to Heaven or not. Personally, I'm a fan of the belief that all animals go to Heaven because they are all creatures of God. Nat seems to think that they don't have a soul and therefore when they die that's it. I don't really know...maybe I still have a bit of a two year old mentality when it comes to my animals...what do you all think?
On a completely different note. I have a job lined up for this summer. I'm going to be a technical marketing intern for Caterpillar in Peoria, IL. If you want to know what an engineer does in technical marketing ask me sometime...I don't really feel like explaining it in here. :) I don't really know what it is with me working in Illinois over the summer. I'm not really that fond of the state, and I'm pretty sure that I don't want to live there permantly, but it's where the job offers have been, so thus that is where I go. I'm pretty excited...the pay is good, plus this year I will have roomates and be old enough to go out with all the interns. (6 months and 10 days till I'm 21!!!) Should be a good summer.
Tomorrow wraps up one crazy quarter for me. It's been pretty hectic. Nat is looking for a job, which takes up a lot more of my time and energy than one might think. Not so much that I have to sit there and physically look for stuff with him, but we talk a lot and then I spend a fair amount of time thinking about it away from him. It's weird to think that he won't be here next year, but unless something major changes he will be around forever after that. So in that way it kind of matters where he ends up...trust me, I don't want to live in Timbuktu or anything!!! :-)
Aside from that, we had rush this quarter. 23 brand new Chi Omegas!!! I'm pretty excited to get to know all of them. They all seem like really cool girls. Rush (or recruitment so as not to upset to the Panhellenic gods) really dominates a lot more time than one might think. But it's over now and I think it went well.
Guess that's all from here. Maybe I'll try to post more frequently. I can think of a million and one things to say, but it's late and I'm tired and should go to bed. One more final to go and then I'm done for the quarter!!! Yay!!!
