I'm slowing down on my blogging, and I think that's probably a good thing - it just means I'm too busy living to write it all down. As a follow up to my post from last week - things have sort of settled back down, just like I knew they would. My brain was basically on overdrive all of last week, and each day it manifested it's overwhelmedness in a different way. So it sort of threw things into chaos for a few days and I refinding my center.
I cut all my hair off yesterday, as evidenced by the pictures in my previous entry. At first I really hated it and sort of freaked out in my car as soon as I left the salon. But since then I've done a lot of staring in the mirror and I've decided I pretty much feel like a badass (sorry for the language, 'rents, but there's really no other way to describe it). I don't know, it just sort of feels metaphorically significant in the way that I tend to make everything metaphorically significant. This time in my life is all about doing the things I'm normally afraid to do.
Btw - yesterday I became my mother. I realize that the context most people use that phrase in is negative, but it my case it's kind of the opposite because my mother is pretty much awesome. In particular she is an awesome event-thrower. Like every year she throws this Christmas party and it's kind of a big deal. Last night I hosted a potluck at my house and everyone on the planet showed up. Okay, maybe not quite - but it was unexpectedly huge and totally awesome.
Basically almost everyone from work came including the executive director and they all brought their posses. There was music and beer and good food and everything was fabulous and suddenly my roommates and I were pretty much the cool kids on the block. It was a good way to make myself feel at home here. Of course, then at 10:30 a cop showed up to tell us to be quiet because some stupid neighbor had called them instead of politely knocking on our door and asking us if we could quiet down. Whatevs. It was a great opportunity to hang out with some of the people at work that I haven't gotten to know yet. It's a pretty sweet gaggle of people.
Nevertheless, I'm pretty sure we are NEVER throwing a party at our place again. Guess we'll have to find a satellite location.
This week is going to be nuts at work: I have my food stamps appointment tomorrow at 3, and then an open house at my school tomorrow night. Recruitment at my school on Tuesday (I'm the main emcee and I am SOOO nervous!), then parent night at the school on Wednesday. Not to mention we're helping out with other schools recruitments too. Still, I'm glad we'll be busy - I like having that momentum.
On top of all of that, I've been giving more and more thought to the idea of going to film school in a couple of years. After my initial freaking out because being here and doing CF didn't make me stop thinking about filmmaking, I had a couple conversation which made me start thinking that maybe it's significant that I'm still thinking about it even when I'm right smack in the middle of option number 2. So let's just say that I'm giving it som serious consideration and I'm pretty stoked about it.
Still can't imagine being that far from home for that long though. I wonder if it ever stops being hard.
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Congrats on the successful potluck! It sounds like it was a lot of fun -- hey, I'm jealous.
Badass is good. As you said, now is the time to take chances and experiment with new and different things.
Maybe your parents could get you an inexpensive digital camera and you could use it somehow in your current job (or even outside work) to document your experiences. I take my digital camera to Cool Girls -- the after-school program I volunteer with -- and the girls LOVE to take photos and learn how to use the equipment. Probably be more fun / even better with High School kids.
Hope week 3 is charmed! Have a good one!
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