09.07.05
Things I’d Forgotten About Home
- The bugs. We’ve got quite a few of ‘em down here. I remembered finding the occasional silverfish in the bathtub, but I’d forgotten about the waterbugs (they look like cockroaches). I found one in my bathroom a week or so ago. Fortunately it’s the only one I’ve seen so far.
- How much I hate mosquitoes, and how much they love me. Several mosquitoes have made their way into the house recently. I seem to be the only one in our family that they like. I’ve gotten about 17 bug bites in the past few days. I hate them.
- The noise. Instead of hearing huge trucks rumbling down the street or the SafeRide vans backing up outside my window, I now hear nothing. Well, nothing but cicadas and crickets. It’s quite a soothing sound, I think.
- The weather. Fall starts here when the temperature drops below 70 degrees. I don’t remember what fall is like here anymore, although I do remember never being able to shop for school clothes here because they don’t put the sweaters out in the stores until October.
- My closet. When we moved into this house (something like 10 years ago), I got the room with a closet full of shelves (I think the room had been an office) because I didn’t so much care about clothes or where I put them. I much preferred books, puzzles, and computer games, which happened to fit in the shelves very nicely (can you tell I’ve always been a nerd?). My mom and I have been going through the junk that’s in my closet so that I’ll have a place to put things. And now I actually need my closet for clothes (gasp). It should be interesting figuring out where everything will go.
In other, unrelated news, the Job Search has officially begun. Sort of. I had a phone interview last week (which doesn’t seem to have paid off in a real interview yet, but it’s something, right?), and today I applied for the first job since I’ve been home. We’ll see if that Computer Science degree is worth something after all.