I was up pretty early this morning. By 8:15am I was in the shower and at 9am talking on the phone with a Boeing representative to talk about an internship offer. 9:30am I was at Apple Farm a half hour early listening to music in my car and reading a book after making phone calls to the CSC Department and a few ACM officers to track down lost money. At 10am I walked in with my wonderful friends of five years Kendra, Chris G., Dan, David, Matt, and Ryan for our annual end of the quarter breakfast at Apple Farm. Our group is dwindling. We already lost a few last quarter, and this quarter we'll be losing four more. :( But hopefully these breakfasts will continue until at least two are left. I love talking with all of them and laughing comes so easy. I was sitting there eating my scone and thinking about everything that's gone on in each of our lives over the past five years. How each one of us has a different story, and has already been through such highs and lows with other people and friends, and still...history brings us all back together today. It's like a narrative movie...the camera pans on each person and I get to describe them in a still frame.
We take a picture together for old times sake...
Wow I think this is the first time I've ever uploaded a picture into my blog. I should backtrack and add for other entries lol.
After Apple Farm, it's a lot of hugs and goodbyes and then it's off to campus to take care of some departmental stuff with Diane and Cindy. Apparently some hard earned sponsorship money is somewhere out there, cashed, but not by us! Plus doing some new faculty candidate evaluations and working traveling logistics for Chicago are in order.
I send a quick text to a friend who had mentioned a BBQ the night before. I don't have any plans, and I'd love to see him again before everyone leaves town. He replies and after I finish my errands and talk to Nate in the hallway...let's get off topic for a second here...so I see Nate in the hallway and he's off to take his last final. The kid is wearing earth colors, slacks, suspenders, and filled in his shirt so he has a gut. It was hilarious. He's about to walk into the men's bathroom to put on his beard and I say that I've got to see this so he says come help me out and changes direction walking right into the women's bathroom instead. I'm thinking whoa! Haha but it was funny and I like the boldness. The guy at the drinking fountain next to the bathroom just starred lolz. I love the great people in my life.
Anyways...back from the tangent...I swing by to pick up my friend at his apartment and I feel like a jerk because even though I'm trying to get off the phone with another friend, she keeps talking so when he comes out I barely even get to say hi. That was really rude of me and I feel bad. But then, I feel even worse because right after I hang up I get another call from a Disney recruiter. I know that it's crunch time and I've been getting calls all over the place from companies giving me their final pitches to work there..."you are one of our strongest candidates" and "the managers kind of had to fight over you" and "you stood out because you're different from the rest of the people we interviewed." I love to hear that, but who knows how many people they say that to. I know that if I don't pick up, it'll probably end up being a game of phone tag, so I take the call and my poor friend just sits in the car waiting oh so patiently. The recruiter does some kind of psychoanalysis of me and she's actually pretty accurate. Despite how different I am from the other candidates and that she said that I would want to expand out and not stay in their group for long, she still wants to move forward with the offer and bring me down to meet me in person. I thought that was cool. We'll talk again on Monday.
Well...after the conversation, we take off to barely a mile away and stop at a nice corner house on California. I didn't know what to expect. I had kinda thought it would be a household who's roommates had all invited friends. This wasn't the case. It was all guys, and all a very close-knit group of guys. I almost panicked because I didn't know anyone and felt like I was intruding on their space. But hey, March Madness was on to make everything all good. Plus the guys were pretty chill. And after getting to know them better playing some volleyball at the rec center, I think they're a pretty awesome group. What a fun crowd. It was a great ending to my finals week. And thank goodness I didn't suck really bad playing volleyball haha...just a little bit. :P
My friend was really sweet and waited for me to grab my stuff while his friends took off. I don't know why I drove him home afterwards. I keep forgetting that he lives like...right next to campus.
It was then back to the Grad Lab to finish up some work and hang out. We played a few games before I took off for Good Friday service at Grace with Kendra, Linz, and David. They all leave tomorrow morning and I might not see them all again together! :( I'm missing out on Tahoe, which is where that whole group of friends is going since I opted to go to Minnesota instead. It's okay...I don't regret it. But I forgot to take into account that Tahoe would have been one of my last fun experience with my freshman year friends. They're graduating and leaving me...I'm going to miss them dearly...especially Kendra cause she was my best girlfriend in the CSC Department. A girl always needs her best girlfriend in the CSC Department lol.
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