Courtney’s Haven

I’m Working Now and Look What Happens

I’m working now at Rice, Unruh, and Reynolds. It’s pretty awesome even though traffic sucks horribly. I think I average a commute time of 3 hours in the car sitting in traffic. But such is life, right?

Next week, I’ll be moving out even further into Downtown at Allen Parkway, but at least I can make my own hours (basically) and go in early. Hello 5 AM :).

But, the story I want to tell today was about during work:

I was Kinkos for about 15 minutes using the computer to print off shipping labels for packages (because our printer was malfunctioning), and there was this guy 2 computers down from me. I sat down and started to work on my stuff, and I asked him how to print black and white. We started talking for about 30 seconds , and he proceeded to ask me things like where I worked, what I liked to do, what I did on the weekend, AND if I had a boyfriend.

I’m really not used to people asking me these kinds of questions NOR do I pick up on what people are trying to do. (I just thought he was talking like I was, being friendly…Sometimes I’m really oblivious. Wait, I mean ALL THE TIME. ) And then, after he asked me if I had a boyfriend, I was like, “no. I’m usually too busy. (which is the truth)” Then, he commented, “…or you just don’t make time” . Damn, without even knowing me, he knows me. That made me smile—> :). But yea, then he finally said, “Well, I guess you’re too busy for me to get your number sometimes”

That was the end of that.

Wouldn’t it be funny though if we dated, fell in love, got married, and then had to tell people that we met at Kinkos? It just makes me laugh.

Two Roads

I think I am not going to be at Texas A&M University next semester. Instead, I’ll be at the wonderful University of Houston, pursuing a pre-pharmacy degree (hopefully leading to a doctorate in pharmacy i.e. pharmD). Just like Robert Frost’s poem which now has had so much meaning in the past couple of months:

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

This is my life, and this is how I’m living it. People tell me that this takes a lot of courage to change and so on, but really, to me, this seems the best thing for me. The nice thing though is that if I want to go back, I can. Everyone is so accepting and supportive of my decision, and I can not express my gratitude. Although sometimes I have felt like a failure because at this exact moment, I am not pursuing a goal/not productive, I realize that this point is exactly where I should be. (Anyone who knows me knows how goal-oriented I am.) The only thing that does make me sad is the “loss” of friendship that I made. My BMEN (i.e. Biomedical Engineering) friends meant/mean the world to me, and although it’s possible to maintain those friendships, it won’t be the same. But that’s okay. This is just a new chapter in my life with a brand new exciting beginning! Everything is looking up from here. :)

And to end, an awesome picture of some of the BMEN friends. (Pictures are awesome.)

Who Wants Some Weight Watchers?

The most exciting thing about Thanksgiving is all the food you get to eat. 4 days of absolute and total gluttony.

The even more exciting thing about Thanksgiving is gorging yourself with food AND losing weight.

How that happens will remain a mystery…

I CAN’T WAIT UNTIL XMAS FOOD GETS HERE. MMMMMMMM.

I also can’t believe that I’m turning 21 in 15? days.

One of my many extended family members told me that I looked like Gwenyth Paltrow this weekend. What a compliment, right?

She is absolutely beautiful.

And then, this is me.

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