I feel good!!!!
Hello there my 1 or 2 readers…..
I’ve been totally off the blogosphere since I asked my students to start a blog of their own. How weird, sad and pathetic is that??
However, I think I am ready to go back, i am feeling specially good right now, it is weird, but today it feels like January 1, 2009 for me.
I’ve gone through a lot of changes this year, and finally, 4 months after, I think I am starting to see some…. shall I say… “results”?
Well, for one my job took a nice unexpected detour. I was in a way promoted, although the whole salary thing is still on hold until budget revision this summer. However, I did see a nice raise on my paycheck thanks to the masters degree I got last december, and the 3 classes that I am now teaching besides my full time job.
I left my old stressing “i don’t know what the hell I am doing” job (well, boss didn’t really gave me much choice here). But I left with a feeling of satisfaction. I left when everything was good and running, the goals have been met, and I had a few new projects of my own cooking, so I felt I left at a good time rather than a bad one. My replacement seems to be loving it, and I think that’s always good for business. I am also loving my new position, we and who was on this position is now on my replacement’s previous position, and apparently she’s also liking it. So from my perspective is a win-win situation for everyone, one of the best ones the boss has made ever!
I am much more enrolled with academia now. I love that I work with students all time know. Although time consuming they make me feel good since I can relate to what they are doing and i feel more in position to give advice. I also have a lot of administrative work wich i like, I love to organize and categorize and all that… it might be my OCD emerging here but oh, what the hell!!! I love this job, still leaving the office at ungodly hours, but at least I really like this one! And of course, everything I do follows one clearer direction, instead of having 20% of my time in academia, 30% on outreach, 40% on speacial assignmentes, and 10% crying about my stress levels.
Of course those super high stress levels took a toll on me. I reached the point where my gastritis and colitis where so bad that my stomach almost stopped working all together. I reached a very critical point before I went to the doctor who tested me even for a cancer causing bacteria, which scared the shit out of me (no pun intended). Anyways, after 2 months (is it 3 now??) of excesive amounts of medicine (and money spent on medicines) and some serious changes on my diet habits (that I can only wish to stick to) oh!!! and a serious NO CAFFEINE policy… my stomach is almost back to normal, and I need to focus now on my weight loss.
Also, my life support system now includes a lovely, caring, and devoted boyfriend, who gets on my nerves now and then, but who is awesome and loves me like no one had before. He’s been there for me all this time, and although I’m still trying to figure out some stuff, I thank God for sending me such a nice partner on this journey.
Family… well…. I think I am loosing some patience here. I love them, God knows I do. But my need of an independent life is most of the time stronger than my love. Still working this one out too.
And oh well… I bought a house!!! a joint inversion w/ my parents, but still a nice investment and we’ve been working on it. My mom has the high hopes that I will get married this year and will move there. My dad is expecting we rent it and get some extra income for the household. I have the strong desire to move there on my own…. let’s see who wins here!!!
And on the interesting facts side note, I’ve been reading a lot this year (now that the MBA is not taking up all my free time) and somewhere along the way I got TWILIGHT obsessed!!! I’ve read twilight, new moon and eclipse so far. I don’t want to read the last book in the series because then it will all be over!!!! And although the talented gifted and exceptionally prolific imagination of Stephanie Meyer has gave birth to a new novel (not twilight related) I am holding on to this wonderful story. And I am not obsessed w/ the whole vampire-werewolf thing, but with the whole writing style, and the way for stories to interlace, and the way the little details from one book evolve into a whole other completely unexpected story on the next one, so I am doing this: watched the movie, read twilight, read new moon, watched the movie again, read eclipse, re-read new moon. Maybe then I’ll read the fourth book, because I don’t think I can wait until November when the New Moon movie will be out.
Ok.. this is quite a long entry, but I just wanted to let the world (shells) know that I’m back on track and will be posting regularly from now on. I promise!!!!!
Happy Easter!!!! And thank you God for my new found enthusiasm!
