apriˈhenSHən adj. Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
Well, it's been a long time coming but tomorrow is the orientation for my internship! I have a new work wardrobe, a new hair cut, the address of the building, and my faithful TomTom GPS. I should be set. I guess that everyone feels some anxiety before starting a new job but it doesn't make me feel any better about walking into that building tomorrow. There is something about going to a new work atmosphere that makes me anxious about my abilities. Part of me knows that I will be just fine but the perfectionist in me pops up and starts doubting my own resolve.
Enough of that! One positive thing about having the orientation pushed back was that it gave us a chance to get to know the city a bit better! I have gotten rather comfortable driving the crazy hills out here to the west of Austin. We have found the cutest Texas town every, Wimberley. If you ever get a chance to head that way you must go to the wimberley pie co and get a piece of coconut pie! It is amazing! It's a cute town with many fun little stores and cute bed and breakfasts lining a beautiful cypress creek. My mom and I first discovered Wimberley when we picked up my couch I got on Craigslist. Danielle and Erika went with my for a day trip last week so I could get a hair cut by Dana, my cousin's aunt who happens to work in Wimberley! She did a great job on my hair too.
Tonight I went to El Chili's for happy hour (half priced appetizer's!) with Danielle, Erika, and Scott. Then the four of us headed to The Screaming Goat for trivia night. The place was so packed we had to find four chairs and made a space for ourselves in a corner of one of the rooms...leading to our team name, Cunning Corners. The clever name was our group's best achievement of the night. Unfortunately our group's knowledge was either lacking on the subjects used or we were the only team not using their iphones to look up answers. We had fun though and that is what was important.
I should probably get to sleep, 6 am will be here in no time!
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
Acclimate
AK-luh-mayt: v. make or become adjusted, adapted.
Well it was been awhile since I last posted I guess. I have completely moved into my shared apartment. I even bought a used couch on craigslist that my mom helped my recover. It's a fun retro kidney bean shaped couch and we covered the back with a white textured fabric and the bottom in a black fabric with tiny white dots. The lady who sold me the couch threw in an old coffee table which I recovered with red fabric and spray painted the legs black. In general I had a lot of fun fixing up the living room with my mom! I'm so excited because I have never decorated a living room before! Now I just have to finish decorating my bed room. The couch was $120 which is more then I really had to spend on furniture for the new apartment but my parents helped me out! Besides, the couch was really needed...before that addition to the living room all we had was my black and white floral chair and Danielle's black office chair. In reality that would be fine until we decided to have someone come visit!
So I am moved in and getting familiar with where things are here in Austin. I know how to get to the classes I am taking at UT thanks to my life saving TomTom! I can now get to a couple of shopping areas (not that I have money to spend), two different wal-marts, several gas stations, and many firewood stands set up all along Capital of Texas Highway! I was planning on trying my first church on Sunday but ended up running late.
I have been to my first two classes here at UT. They are both broadcast classes but the professor is actually in my class for one of them. It's a little weird to see a video of yourself up on a tv screen at the front of the class. The nutritional epi class is very small! Erika and I are the only students at the Austin branch!
I was planning on getting my new student email set up so I could finally get on blackboard but the IT people are off today since it's a holiday. I was planning on spending the day getting ready for class this week but I guess I will just have to enjoy the lovely sunshine instead!
Well it was been awhile since I last posted I guess. I have completely moved into my shared apartment. I even bought a used couch on craigslist that my mom helped my recover. It's a fun retro kidney bean shaped couch and we covered the back with a white textured fabric and the bottom in a black fabric with tiny white dots. The lady who sold me the couch threw in an old coffee table which I recovered with red fabric and spray painted the legs black. In general I had a lot of fun fixing up the living room with my mom! I'm so excited because I have never decorated a living room before! Now I just have to finish decorating my bed room. The couch was $120 which is more then I really had to spend on furniture for the new apartment but my parents helped me out! Besides, the couch was really needed...before that addition to the living room all we had was my black and white floral chair and Danielle's black office chair. In reality that would be fine until we decided to have someone come visit!
So I am moved in and getting familiar with where things are here in Austin. I know how to get to the classes I am taking at UT thanks to my life saving TomTom! I can now get to a couple of shopping areas (not that I have money to spend), two different wal-marts, several gas stations, and many firewood stands set up all along Capital of Texas Highway! I was planning on trying my first church on Sunday but ended up running late.
I have been to my first two classes here at UT. They are both broadcast classes but the professor is actually in my class for one of them. It's a little weird to see a video of yourself up on a tv screen at the front of the class. The nutritional epi class is very small! Erika and I are the only students at the Austin branch!
I was planning on getting my new student email set up so I could finally get on blackboard but the IT people are off today since it's a holiday. I was planning on spending the day getting ready for class this week but I guess I will just have to enjoy the lovely sunshine instead!
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