Should I get a bunny?

Pros:
I'd be less lonely.
It'd be so cute!
We could eat vegetables together.

Cons:
It has to be let out of its cage daily. I'd have to bunny-proof my apartment, and probably buy a little pen so that it doesn't end up hiding under my bed, etc.
I'd have to clean its cage regularly.
It has the potential to be smelly.
I'd have to take care of something other than me.

No idea

HIIIII!!!!

I am writing a blog to you guys! Woo! I spent too much energy trying to decide what my nickname was...now I don't know what to write. I have been working. It is not incredibly exciting to hear about, but for the most part I like it. I have spiders in my apartment. Every morning when I wake up and my mouth feels weird I am scared that I ate one. Have you heard that thing that the average person eats 8 spiders a year? I have no idea where I heard this. Either way though, I would prefer spiders to my old roommate.

Lets see, what else. I went to the UM football game and got blisters on my feet. It was fun besides the blisters. I was walking around without shoes on and people were like "Eww! put your shoes back on!" Also I had a hot dog and it was so good. [I hope H is remembering that hot dog she ate with me...yummmm.]

Ok I think thats it for today. Oh yeah! One more thing. We played Scattagories at work today (the computer system was down) and the letter was "B." I got a point for State: 'Bama...like Alabama. Usually they're pretty tough about weird answers. I was so proud :)

New Life Plan

Okay, this masters thing isn't working out. Looking at PhD apps now. It probably won't be any better than masters, but at least they won't be trying to feed me to med school.

But apps are due in Dec?? I thought I'd have until January.

How do I make new teacher friends??

Although on the normal friend front, I think I made one. Which is good, because he sounds smart (or at least he sounds like a super effective studier) and I have a sinking feeling I failed the first exam in the class we have together. New study buddy? I hope so :)

Post-College Fears

Swine flu. While we did graduate during one of the worst recessions ever, on a brighter note, we aren't in college anymore, where swine flu is spreading like crazy! A few 20something year olds have died from it though, and my co-workers keep talking about (probably a very broad conclusion to be drawing) how swine flu is attacking people in their 20s. While I realize swine flu is basically the same as normal flu, I am scared of both!

A census worker was recently found in Kentucky, hung, with FED scrawled on his chest. This is extra creepy now that I (a) can walk to Kentucky from my work place, and (b) work for the government.

I guess I kind of fear that I won't make more friends. But really I just fear swine flu and crazy hillbillies.

Goodbye Freedom

As you all might already know, I moved back home to find a decent job. I had an interview with Maybank the day after I get back, thanks to my Aunt who knew the Head of the Actuarial Department there. I've been super busy with the Holiday (Eid) ever since last Sunday. The holiday last a whole month. I visited 5 houses the first day, 5 the next day and about 6 yesterday.

There was a lot of good food and I get to see old friends and family members who I hadn't seen in years. Everytime I meet an uncle or aunt who works at a big firm, they would offer me help to find a job. One uncle works for Petronas which is the giant oil company here and he said "I can help you get a job but you should know that if you work for us you can't marry anyone who works at the company."

*Puzzled Face*

And then last night an uncle called his friend who knows a lot of Actuaries so they can help me get a job. First of all, I haven't had the chance to apply for jobs myself and even if I had, I don't think that it'd be too hard to get one here. My problem with people helping me get a job is that I don't get to say no if I get an offer; thus, my freedom to scout around is gone?

I appreciate the help they offer but I have mixed feelings about this.

Living with my brother

I moved in with my brother this year because he's 20 minutes from campus. On the upside, I'm not paying rent. On the other hand, I cook, clean and do laundry for me and my bro. My momma claims my rent is too high actually. At least we don't have bug problems.

I think it was good for me to enroll in school because I was having a really touch time finding a job, but I really dislike my program! It's boring, it's tedious, and it's half UMich kids anyway. It's almost like I never left undergrad.

I'm a little worried because I don't think I'm making friends like I should be. I could blame it on the commuter campus, but it's unlikely that that's the entire problem.

Anyway, my brother took me out to dinner last night. He said it was a thank you for cooking and cleaning all the time. We went to Sweet Lorraine's. I ordered the Tuna Fajitas because it was a special for the day. The tuna had a cilantro pesto on it. The waitress said it was amazing but I was unimpressed. I did really enjoy the homemade salsa that came with it (yay for mangoes). Also, they give you truffle/mint things with your bill that they make in their bakery next door. And the chocolate was delicious :D

J and I started weekly lunches. We're slowly eating our way in an ever increasing radius from the med school. GET EXCITED!!!

Living On My Own

Did you know there are these little carpet bugs that like to hide under cardboard? Cincinnati is always full of new surprises. I just spent the past 10 minutes vacuuming up all these bugs (I guess that’s incentive to unpack my last box…) and freaking out. I am not that dirty. I rarely cleaned in college, other than scrubbing down the bathroom and the kitchen counters, and I NEVER had bug problems. I’ve had a ridiculous number of bug problems since moving here. Attack of the flies (suddenly 40 flies appeared in my apartment one day for no reason, for those of you who missed that story, and I don’t mean little fruit flies, I mean giant houseflies), giant spiders, carpet bugs…the irony of it all is I live in one of the nicest neighborhoods in Cincinnati.

I hadn’t intended on starting my first entry by talking about bug attacks, but bug attacks are kind of the story of my life ever since I moved to Cincinnati three months (can you believe it’s been that long) ago. I was planning on using this blog to talk about how confusing it is that it's September and we're not back in college and it's time to think about real people things, but...nope, my mind is too preoccupied by bugs. I don't think I am cut out to live alone, between being a big scaredy cat and hating bugs. At the very least it'd be nice to have someone to freak out with. Areener, come back to me.