Potato Chips in My Bed

Today, I did my laundry to find work out clothes in the bottom.  I had one of those moments where I forgot that I owned the clothes in the bottom of the pile.  I'm not sure which is more embarrassing ... a. that its been that long since I've done laundry or b. that it's been so long I don't remember what my workout clothes look like.

I'm currently in the middle of my first round of final exams!  I've also recently decided to apply for another graduate degree, I must be crazy.  I'm applying for a dual degree of a MPH/MBA.  I can get my masters in public health, which leads directly into the hospital health care industry along with my MBA.  It's like a perfect marriage of what I want in my career.  I'm finally starting to feel like all this preparation is putting me on a track that will lead where I want to go.  As long as I can submit the application during finals ... and my application comes out in coherent sentences, which has been a struggle for me ...

I've also met someone here.  (I think).  I'm fully embracing college life, and we had a boat cruise with our whole class a few weekends back.  A bunch of us got together to drink a little before we went on the cruise, and ended up somehow having roughly 5 drinks each (??).  I remember the night being so so so much fun ... but I also remember when we got on the boat, one of my friends got a bottle of vodka taken away and another one walked onto the boat and immediately broke a wine glass.  A great night that ended somehow with me spending quite some time talking to a cute stranger who cabbed me home.  I woke up with a few text messages "Where did you go??" and a bag of potato chips in my bed.  So this sends me on a while goose chase to find a guy who: has incredible dimples and that's about all I remember.

I feel like in undergrad it's totally acceptable to laugh about how little you remember about the night before, but as a 27 year old it's a little strange to need someone to fill in holes about your night.  I found him at a bar a week later (when I walked in and all his friends pointed at me yelling "Heyyyyy!!!!!" ... none of which I recognized.).  We sat and talked for a few hours and he walked me home.  I feel like the east coast is a little "rougher?" "argumentative?" than the midwest, so I was really surprised when he walked me home and texted me later to say "Glad you made it home safe.  Stay away from the potato chips."

It's a nice distraction from all the studying and cramming of information I've been doing ...

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Balancing Alcohol and Friends

I love love school.  I'm starting to feel like a bit of an alcoholic though.  The stress level is so incredibly high, that people are basically sprinting to the bar next door as soon as class is over.  I didn't realize school was going to be like this.  Sometimes I feel like I'm not really learning, like I'm just memorizing things to get through the next exam and hoping they'll pick that material to test me with.  It's insane, I'll learn three subjects in seven weeks.  Rapid fire.  I've just started picking things that I won't do ... and hoping for the best ... I think I'm supposed to focus on my career also at some point ... Right now, this is on the back burner.

I started missing non-alcoholic bonding.  So much that I realized, I can have it if I plan it.  So I invited some friends over and had a nice dinner and couple bottles of wine.  I thought I'd have 3-4 girls over, but I ended up with so many people saying yes that I had to go buy more wine glasses!  It's not completely non-alcoholic, but it was nice to change the scenery from the bar down the corner.  It's weird to think that I didn't know anyone I am friends with now two months ago, and now we spend 24/7 together.  There's no better way to make you feel like an adult than to have a "dinner party."  I even had wine glass charms ... Not completely grown up though, they were mustaches.

It's also a little bit weird to have a group of girl friends to hang out with.  I've always had one or two best friends, and sometimes girls can be so overwhelming that I'm surprised I had such a good time with everyone.  I am sort of starting to miss guy friends though ... And it's so weird to become guy friends with guys who are married.  You can't hang out with them the same you can guys who are single.  I really miss having guys to hang out with and joke around with.  So much more easy going, and flirty fun.  I feel like I'm just finding balances between lots of things now.  Career and school.  Alcohol and non alcohol bonding.  Girl friends and guy friends.

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