June 20, 2009

So,

I don’t have a whole lot to say about Chicago other than that it was awesome.  I got offers at all 3 places I interviewed at, but I’m only considering two of them because the third seems like a bunch of boring older ladies.  I have, however, run into a small problem.  You see, these positions are mostly early intervention, which requires lots of home visits.  And public transportation, though excellent in Chicago, would take quite a while.  I don’t want to learn to drive and have a car and learn to parallel park!  So I’m going to see if maybe I can negotiate or something with the place I like more (the awesome one with all the Polish people).  Sigh.  I also found where I want to live-Lakeview.  There’s people my age, it’s not too expensive, and it’s pretty safe.  I still can’t believe how expensive decent apartments are, but whatev.  I went to the Lincoln Park Zoo.  I went to the Harry Potter exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry.  I did a tiny bit of shopping (I can’t do anymore because I need to save my dollars).  I went to a show at The Second City, which is this comedy club where a whole bunch of people who are famous now got their start (Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, Steve Carrell, Chris Farley, Dan Akroyd, and loads more!).  It was super funny.  On my way from the hotel to the subway/train, I saw Martin Short filming something for TBS with a great dane-I walked right by and was like 2 feet away.  On the plane from Chicago to Raleigh, a little kid sat next to me (he was like 8 or 10).  His mom and younger brother sat across the aisle.  He offered me some starbursts!  It was adorable.  I was also reading one of my vampire books and on the cover it has a drawn girl sitting on a flying tiger with a vampire looking on.  He kept on leaning over to try to look at it.

The End

-Me

This beat be bumpin’, bumpin’. June 15, 2009

So,

I had quite the creepy-grabby-guy experience at Lucy’s/PT’s last night.  But let me start at the beginning of that evening…

At 7:30, I went to a Tap Festival show thing at the ArtsCenter.  And it was awesome!  It really made me miss tap dancing.  I had a fantastic seat and it was all just wonderful.  Well, there was one thing that bugged me a little.  The audience clapped A LOT, which got in the way of my hearing the taps.  But anyhow…

At around 10, I went to Ham’s with Katie and some other physics people.  It was fun!  A group of us (well, Katie, some physics people, and me) had gone there on Tuesday to get the cheap cheeseburgers and a beer tower (or two).  This time I got a really tasty Long Island Iced Tea.  Mmmm.  Nice and strong.  And Law and Order: SVU was playing on a tv in the background, along with an episode of Pushing Daisies.  Doesn’t get much better than that.

Sometime around 11:30 we went to Lucy’s/PT’s and nobody was dancing.  So we sat and had some beer (I had just one).  Slowly more people came and we got up to dance (the girls in the group, not the guys).  Side note: One of the physics boys was kind of cute and he was funny and he knew about tv and movies.  Anyway… The first guy that made me laugh really hard was the butt-dancer.  He started dancing behind me and pushing his back (and butt) into mine.  It may not sound funny, but it was.  Especially since I had a mini-conversation with another guy I knew, while butt-dancing.  Sometime around 1, it started.  It.  It was a Greek (or Turkish) econ grad student.  Two guys came up to Katie and me and asked if we wanted to dance.  So we said sure.  The funny thing is is that after everything ended and we were gone, Katie said that she knew they weren’t American because they asked.  Back to the story.  So she got the nice one.  And I ended up with the…aggressive one.  His hands just kept on going back to my butt.  And I didn’t really care about that because it made me laugh so hard.  And I mean…who can resist it anyway…  (J/K).  It gets better.  Every once in a while he’d move some of my hair, to get to my neck.  This, too, made me laugh.  Then, his hand moved up and I most definitely pushed that away.  I mean, seriously, you don’t do that stuff in public!  And then we danced some more.  All in all, it was an amusing night and a pretty fun way to spend my last night in Chapel Hill.  Oh and I forgot!  When we first started dancing, he asked what my name was.  When I told him, he asked me if I was Polish and then he said my name the Polish way!  I don’t usually make it a point to dance quite like that.  In the past, it was either in a joking way with pool table guy or Phillip or Kevin even.  Or in a I-know-this-guy-already-and-like-him way.

Okay.  I’m going to Chicago tomorrow!  Wahoo!  Monday and Tuesday are my interview and fun stuff and shopping days.  Wednesday is my Polish food and a lot of apartment hunting day.  There’s this one pretty awesome apartment right around the corner (literally) from a bunch of Polish stores and restaurants!  The whole building is pretty new (3 years) and the kitchen is big and has stainless steel appliances.  AND it even has a washer and a dryer in the apartment!  It seems like most other places just have a couple in the basement of the building.

-Me

Grab your coat and get your hat, leave your worry on the doorstep. Just direct your feet to the sunny side of the street. June 4, 2009

So,

It has been a while since I last posted.  Work has kept me super busy.  The nice thing is that in the past month, I have realized that I definitely chose the right field to go into.  I love love love being a speech-language pathologist!  I still haven’t gotten used to waking up at 6 everyday, but it’s not super hard anymore either.  I usually get back home between 3:30 and 4, which I guess is nice.  I’m almost done with my application for temporary licensure in Illinois, so I just have to get a job there.  The closer June 16th gets, the more nervous I am.  But hurray for Chicago!  I’m excited.

What else?  I’ve become addicted to the Sookie Stackhouse books.  After I read Anna Karenina (and ended up not liking it), I decided I wanted to read something light that did not require much thought.  I remembered that True Blood (the show about vampires on HBO that I watched in the Fall) was based on books, so I looked them up and bought the first two in the series.  I read those two pretty quickly and then I tried to read the Junot Diaz book that I had bought, but I kept on thinking about vampires.  So then I called the Bull’s Head bookshop and asked if they had any of those books.  And guess what!  They did.  So I got the next three.  There are 8 in all and I am now on the 4th.  I really liked the HBO series, but I always felt weird watching it because there are lots of graphic sex scenes in just about every episode.  Anyway…

I am giving up on ever finding a pair of flats that will be comfortable.  Nordstroms is having their semi-annual shoe sale and I bought this really cute pair of green leather flats.  And they were really comfortable when I tried them on.  But then I wore them to school and found out, sadly, that they hurt my big toe.  I spent that day walking weird-ly because it made it hurt less, but now the muscle or tendon in my leg hurts a whole bunch.

Um.  I bought some more stuff at Anthropologie.  I got a cute short sleeved shirt cross stitching on it that was on sale.  And I got a gray and white semi-fancy short sleeved jacket that I plan on wearing to my interview.  I love that store.

Oh I know what else.  My PE coaches have an office next to mine.  There are two.  One is a bit older  and is retiring.  The other one is around my age and cute.  But I don’t know if I actually think he’s cute or if he’s cute because there are like 4 men total that work in the school.  One is a kindergarten teacher.  I always wonder what he’s like because, seriously, what is a male kindergarten teacher like.  There’s also this “science guy” who goes into various classes and teaches kids science.  He wears bow ties and oversized regular ties.  I think he wears them to be silly, but my grad student thinks that he’s trying to look nice and fancy.  Who knows?  Because of my wonderful detective skills, I found out his name and looked him up on facebook.  He graduated from UNC in 2008 and I can’t see his profile.  However, he is with a girl in his picture, who is most likely his girlfriend.

Anyway.

I’m so happy that So You Think You Can Dance is back on tv.  There are these two brothers who are in the top 16 guys (they made it through all the tough auditions but there’s one more cut because they need only 10 guys and 10 girls for the show).  So these guys have a Polish last name-Kasprzak.  That’s a sort of common last name in Poland, I think.  It’s the last name of my grandma’s neighbor.  But instead of pronouncing it the Polish way, they say it as Kas-per-zac.  They’re really good dancers.

I think that’s all.

-Me