My New Job - and other random things

I started my  new job on January 4. Rather, I started clocking in at VUHL (rather than with the temp service) on January 4, but I didn't go to orientation until the following Wednesday because I had to train my replacement as the team assistant. I have been a processor trainee for nearly a month and I have learned so much. But the biggest thing I have learned is to accept change. Things change at Veterans United on a daily basis, and learning to roll with the punches is a must. If I didn't do this, I would be a miserable wreck. Having faith that the leaders of the company know what they're doing when implementing all these changes is a big help too.

In other news, MU beat KU last Saturday night in what might very well be the last home basketball game they ever play against one another. It was an amazing game, and to top it off I got to spend the night watching it with my parents at a little bar in Cuba. It was a really good time.

About a month or so ago, maybe a little longer, I started feeling a lot better. I was less dizzy, less anxious, more able to go out and do things. But this past week or so has been terrible. I have been extremely dizzy, I've been getting headaches, I've been feeling nauseated... It's frustrating because I thought I was starting to get better. I have a follow-up appointment with my GP on Monday, and I was going to cancel it, but now I'm rethinking that. I don't know if I'm feeling worse because of all the ridiculous changes in the weather, or because I stopped taking birth control pills, or because I've had a cold... whatever it is I don't like it. I hope it gets better soon.

I just remembered something important - I decided not to apply to law school. I made this choice for a few reasons. 1) Most importantly, I got the job at VUHL. It pays really, really well and I enjoy it. I don't want to have to quit working there to go back to school. 2) My LSAT score was very average. It was in the 77th percentile. My GPA was also very average. I didn't want to put in a ton of effort (and not to mention pay a lot of money to apply) just to get rejected. 3) By the time I found out my LSAT score, I only had a week and a half left to apply. I had forgotten all about the fact that I needed recommendation letters and that I had to write a statement. This also happened to be the week I was starting my new job. I was just under a lot of stress and decided it wasn't worth it... This all makes it sound like I copped out - in fact, that wasn't what I did at all. I have heard from several people that if you're not 100% sure you want to go to law school, you shouldn't. Well I definitely wasn't sure that was what I wanted to do, and law school is an expensive mistake to make. If I decide later on that it is for me, I will apply then. I have also heard that people who take time off to work before going back to law school actually do better than if they had gone right out of college. My point is that my options are still very much open.

My sister is thinking of going to Columbia College here in town next year and she and my parents are coming up here to look at the school and potential places to live next weekend. It might be kind of nice to have my sister here in town, because then I will have someone to hang out with me when all my friends are out getting wasted and I can't go! Or when David is at the library until crazy hours of the night leaving me here to watch Jersey Shore all night by myself.

I really like some of the people in my training "class" at work. Most of them started the week before me (the week I technically should have started), and I am getting to know some of them pretty well. It makes going to work even better to know that I actually have friends there. And we have to carpool to our new office building from our old office building each morning, so that's time away from our desks to just chit-chat and get to know each other. I like it... it's nice. =)