Tomorrow at approx. 10 am I finish my last exam of my undergraduate college career. So far it doesn't seem very climactic, but it hasn't quite sunk in yet that the whole family is coming barreling into Oregon within these next couple of days.
June 22nd I start work as an intern for an educational consulting company where I'll be doing data-entry for a pretty penny. Come fall I don't know what will happen, but Shawna and I would like to move out of Oregon, and I personally want to keep close to a scientific field if I can.
I really don't understand where the time went... half a year ago I was still recovering from jet-lag after a journey over the Pacific Ocean.
Everyone is telling me I should be excited, but truth be told I do not know what to feel. Surely I am excited about the family reunion... I'm excited about this summer to a certain degree. It's been awhile since I worked full-time, and even then I was a manual laborer. Now I need to acclimate to the office environment: neck-ties, good posture, smiles, simulated and regurgitated conversation, business-speak. But I think it can be a wonderful experience in some respects as well.
Here I will be in Portland this summer, hopefully saving up money and having a good time; Dave is in Africa for a month (first Carter to step foot on the 'dark continent'?) followed by forestry research in Wisconsin; Erik Schuessler is working for EPIC in Madison, WI, probably up to his usual antics and dating a Jewish girl; Ryan will be doing some sort of sales internship for his aunt over in Ohio, the place he seems to thrive in; Seth just started EMT classes in preparation for becoming a paramedic while still hanging on to his graveyard shift job at the veterinary lab; Brian is working for his older brother Jeff (who is poised to get married in November [will be trying my best to make it back home for that]), and doing the long-distance-thing with his girlfriend who lives in Springfield, IL; Simon is working from home in the air-conditioning where he thrives most as a customer support line for people with I-pod/phone problems, Eric Hsu is working on Wall Street in something investment bank related don't really know before going back to Michigan for his senior yr; no idea what Eric E. is doing...
Whatever the circumstances, I will be making it home for Christmas this year and hope to meet with all of those I just mentioned (maybe not Simon since he is in California after all) and be able to catch up at length. As for now, the team huddle is broken.
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