All I Need

i am officially meeting with the employer i've been looking at tomorrow afternoon! in case i've lost you somewhere in the last week, this is the employer working with the staffing agency that caused me to come down here in the first place. they hadn't been communicating last week, but they did today, so i'm going to meet with them tomorrow afternoon at 3:30. please pray that they still want to hire me!! i spent most of today running around my neighborhood filling out applications at every place i could find, including BK and McDonalds. yes, i'm that desperate. and then i got a call from the staffing agency saying i finally have an official interview tomorrow.

it couldn't have come at a better time. yesterday i started officially freaking out about the whole thing, tears and all. my roommate asked if i was okay, which sparked a conversation that lasted until 2:30 in the morning. it was awesome. we're going to be great friends.

that's pretty much it for me right now. God bless sonic and happy hour.

Tennessee Line

i feel as though i owe you all a post, though it won't be very exciting. i'm still just settling in. i went to shakespeare in the park (yes, it's exactly what it seems to be) last night with some friends, and watched "the complete works of william shakespeare (abridged)." it was absolutely hilarious. if you ever get a chance to see it, go. my room still looks more or less like a bomb went off....i'm sure you're surprised. i'm still trying to find places for everything, kind of unpacking as i discover i need something.

the only thing i'm nervous about it is this job. the employer hasn't gotten back to the staffing agency about a starting date, and it's making me nervous. i've started applying for other things in the area, because i have to get paid before october rent is due. so if you all could pray that either the employer gives me a starting date or something else comes through, it would be much appreciated. once i know officially where i'm working, i think i'll feel much better. i still can't believe i actually live here!

tomorrow's sunday, which makes me pretty excited. i want to go to church with my roommate in the morning, which will be a brand new place for me, full of brand new people to meet. then tomorrow night i'll head over to a church i visited back in june, where i met some really great people, and hopefully get to spend some time with friends.

i miss all of you back in nebraska! but i can't say i'm sad to be somewhere other than lincoln today; i'm sure game traffic is crazy!! and don't worry, i'll always be a husker fan at heart. here's hoping we win!

Hello, Goodbye

you know that old saying about today being the first day of the rest of your life? well, today really is for me. this morning i woke up in a beautiful apartment in Antioch, TN, just outside of Nashville proper. joey was purring and cowering under the blanket me, and phoebe was still under a chair in the living room where she spent the night. i have no furniture except for a borrowed air mattress (if that counts as furniture), most of my life is still in my car. from the outside, chaos and disarray seem to abound. and, though they admittedly have their place when it comes o moving, i've never been so excited to wake up anywhere.

it's been a long road, and the next few weeks/months will be long too. you know me; change isn't exactly something i'm great with. but it's necessary and for the best, so i forge on. but this place is me. i'm finally forging my own road, doing something no one in my family has done before. i've broken the mold, and i finally feel free to be who i am. no one has me pegged here. there's no pre-determined box for me to squeeze into. i can be that person i've started to see in myself. and i can't really explain why i didn't feel free to do it before. i just couldn't.

but this freedom came with a giant pricetag. aside from the obvious drawbacks of being a "starving artist," (severe lack of funds, overdoses of ramen noodles, etc...) yesterday i left behind the only world i've really ever known. my closest family member is 14 hours away. and i'm not sure when i'll get to go back. i have to be away from my parents indefinitely. and that sucks. i'm so thankful we live in an age where communication across distances is as easy as it is. witout that, none of you would even be reading this right now. but fortunately, i can keep you all updated easily. i can call my parents as much as i want and write emails until my fingers go numb, should i so choose.

so we've started off well. the kitties are still scared and exploring, but they're already much more adventurous than they were last night. we're gonna like it here.