Huzzah, it is I. Rachel Marcus, absent blogger. I was thinking about letting this go to the wayside for good, but I'm bored, and feel like writing to cyberspace, and figure similar times will come up in the future, so it stays...for now.
Uhh, happy new year? Here we are, in, what I believe to be, the fastest 8 months of my life. As of next week, I will have been a DC resident for 2/3 of a year. Un-fucking-believeable. Didn't we just graduate? And now my 07 pals are a couple weeks into the home stretch. Buckle up kids..the worst has yet to come. As for me, I've gotten comfortable in this new life. It's taking time to get used to, Im still not amazingly satisfied with my social situation, but it gets better every week. I find myself sometimes shunning thw world, and staying in my room for whole weekends, and on the other hand I have forced myself to go out to meetings and get togethers and am pleased with the people I've gotten to know. I continue to love and hang with people from work..I heart the southerners. Still every now and then I miss New Brunswick with a wicked vengance. Especially when there is some sort of party or happening that I really wish to be a part of. Luckily, February has me going up there not once, but twice! My early sort of suprise (to me that is) trip for Viki's grad party is gonna be a bit of a schlep (greyhounding it all the way there and back), but when I head up the weekend of the 22nd, I'll have it better planned out, and have more time to visit with people.
I still really love the house I live in, except downstairs is really cold, since it's a pretty drafty house. I want spring to get here quickly..nothings better than walking around DC in the nice weather. I could probably walk around for hours, as Cass and I did about 2 weekends ago when it was a freaky 70 degrees out. Absolutely gorgeous.
The roommates are still pretty awesome, especially Michele, who I share a bathroom with. Most of the time we insult each other in front of our other roommate, who just doesn't get our mutual rudeness, but of course it's all in good fun. Sadly, both the roommates are gone for the weekend, leaving me, the dog and the cat, which bothers me a little. i think I could stand to be alone in an apartment, but this is a house, and being alone in an old drafty house, when things creak, is just no fun. Sometimes its downright creepy. This weekend is gonna suuuck. I'm just happy that I have plans for sat and sun afternoon so I'm not stuck in here for too long. I'd definitely go stir crazy.
In other news, I started taking a swim aerobics class at the local pool. Its at 8AM on Saturdays, and I want to commit suicide every time my alarms goes off on Sat. mornings, but I know it's good for me, and gets me excercising and blah blah blah. I think it would be easier for me to get up and in a bathing suit if it wasnt 15 degrees outside. Im just saying. In any case, it's enjoyable...the early time is just regretable.
I do think that I've been depressed lately. I dont feel actively sad, really I'm pretty happy and downright chipper. But I've been taking lots of naps on the weekends, I seem to have at least one sleepless night a week, and I've kind of lost my appetite to an extent. Its not that I FEEL depressed, I think it might be a chemical thing, sorta out of my control. Probably caused by the cold weather. Anyway, since I don't feel actively sad, so I won't worry about it. It is weird because its really the first time I've ever noticed that my behavior changed without my mood being affected, and i really couldnt control that I was tired, or not sleeping. Just worries me because I have a family history of depression, and I really never felt like I couldn't somehow, i dont know, MAKE myself be happy. Whatever..dont worry about me, I'm doing fine.
I've taken a break from studying for the GRE's because : a) Im not sure what I actually want to go to graduate school for. I'm really leaning toward education policy, which is a really specialized form of public policy, but it's really what I'm interested in..and B) I reaaally want to do a presidential campaign which, with primaries and a possible general election (depends if I back the right horse) could take between 6 months to a year, so grad school would be a little out of the question. Whatever..grad school will always be there.
Allright..everyone is updated. Now I'm sleepy. Ok, and if you're a NBer, I'll hopefully be seeing you real soon.
Missing you guys
-rachel
Thursday, January 25, 2007
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