Today was a day filled with mixed emotions...everything from sadness to excitement. What monumental event could have caused such a wide spectrum of emotions one asks? A shopping trip. Yes, unfortunately the day had come for me to bid farewell to my beloved t-shirts, jeans, and flip-flops that had so faithfully clothed me throughout my college years and trade them in for "grown up" attire for my internship. Usually shopping isn't my thing, except of course unless it's at an athletic apparel store or sporting goods store or bike shop or something. In that case, I'm like a kid in a candy store, saliva and all.
Anyway, after several hours of browsing through rack upon rack of clothing and making multiple trips into the changing room (I totally think a max of 8 articles of clothing per trip is bogus), my mom and I shuffled out to the car bearing garbagebag-esque masses of clothing. Mission accomplished! I now have a nice wardrobe of "business casual" clothing, as well as a few "fierce" dresses. Yes, dresses, as in plural. I NEVER wear dresses!
So that was all pretty exciting. The rest of my day consisted of getting my car ready for the 1,200 mile drive my mom, sister, and I will be tackling come Thursday. The preparation included an oil change, a tire rotation, and not one, but two carwashes. Ok, so I had a coupon for a full service car wash and I decided it would probably be considerate to those who had to do the rest of my tune up if I went ahead and got the car cleaned beforehand (its first in honestly about 10 months...since I left for school last fall). And cue Dad cringing. So I got it all cleaned and ready to go for the auto workers. After all the work was done I went out to my car and realized it was wet. I looked at the receipt and saw a checked box reading, "Completed complimentary car wash." Alrighty then, I have a SUPER clean car now.
The only other thing that happened today was that I got an e-mail from Jessica, a staff member from Ironman, giving me the full names (Facebook-search friendly) and e-mail addresses of the other interns as I had previously requested. There's one other girl, and 2 other guys. I thought there was only 3 of us, but apparently there's 4, one of which is local so he's not living with us. I feel like in a few ways this process is much like that of my study abroad experiences...You know, having to meet and live with total strangers in a new place doing new and different things. Oh wait, maybe that's the "Real World." Anyway, being a veteran at studying abroad, I decided to do like I always do and get some contact info before the first face-to-face introduction. I plan to e-mail them later and just get some basic info about them to break the ice. Of course I already requested for them to "be my friend" on Facebook. It's scary that in this day and age you can simply "friend someone" and then the profile stalking begins. I keep thinking that high school reunions will be almost pointless in years to come. I mean face it, we all know we go to those things just to find out the details of everyone's success or lack thereof, not because we actually want to see them again, right? With Facebook, I can tell you that I know more now about some people that I went to high school with than I did when I sat right next to them in class. Crazy!
So anyway, I hope they respond and don't think I'm weird for contacting them before I know them. And that pretty much concludes the day. The end.
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