I'm trying my best to use up all the food I have in my apartment. The last thing I want to do is haul canned corn and soup across state lines. It's made for some interesting meals but one thing that has bothered me for the last couple days is that all of the bread I've been looking at contains High Fructose Corn Syrup. WTF?! It's marketed as whole grain wheat bread, but secretly it's a ploy to make you think you're eating healthy so you'll buy it but it's really not. I finally got a good loaf at the Metro Bakery in Reading Terminal - even the Dutch bread store had some of the HFCS grossness. It's criminal, I say!!
Also I've recently gotten invited to two weddings, both of close high school friends. I'm so excited for C, B, and their respective fiances and the lives they are building together, but a part of me doesn't really connect with them. It just feels weird to know that this is the norm for my "peer" group now - and I suppose I should be bracing for even more wedding and baby news from other people down the road.
It's 2009, I'm 25 years old, looking at 4 years of schooling plus 4 more for residency. Dating and marriage hasn't really ever been part of the plan. And it's interesting because most of my friends that are doing professional school/doctor/PhD route are not married, not in serious relationships at all. It may be a fact of our goals and ambitions, but I can't help but think sometimes that I am missing out on something that's bigger than you, me, us.
Anyways don't want this to be a downer, just something I've been thinking about recently. But I am very very excited for the next few months - here is the schedule:
March 11: last exam at Drexel!!
March 24 - 27: Las Vegas with mom for apt hunting
March 30: Viewing of Colbert Report in NYC =D
April 2 - 6: Detroit, Michigan!
April 16 - June 29: Saigon, VIETNAM!!!! Classes end on the 16th of June so I'll have some time to travel
June 30ish - July 11ish: road trip with Tracy from DC to Las Vegas! haha it's going to be crazy fun
Aug 3: Orientation for Touro-NV Class of 2013 begins!
3 comments:
1. I love this post.
2. 'This' is why I don't eat bread.
3. I think we have to believe we'll find it, eventually, waiting is the hardest part, and when we do find it, it will be other-wordly fantastic and all-consuming.
i meant "WORLDLY" not "wordly"
although i'm sure i will be WORD-ly.
oh dearie me, oh dearie my.
ps: my word verification is RENEALL
haha isn't it weird how sometimes blogger seems to know what's going on in our "non blog" lives??
thanks for the support =D. it's just a bit nerving that, you know, for the beginning of our lives we all have the same "steps" and "thresholds" to cross. Speak our first words, learn to walk, become potty-trained - we are almost all develop at the same time. Then in middle and high school we also go through the same relative transitions...crushes, sporting events and artistic exhibits, making and losing friends, learning how to drive, fighting with parents, dances and proms...it's almost a national experience in the public school system.
then we graduate from high school and now there are many paths to choose from. and it's interesting to see where i am is different from my HS friends but the norm from my college/post bacc friends.
right now i am certainly in no rush at all, as i definitely believe that the universe provides and unfolds in mysterious, awesome ways.
haha and recently we have both been lucky enough to have some awesome things happen to us!
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