>>>My new editing job is keeping me so busy! I think it's because, since I'm new, I take twice as long as necessary on each project, just in case someone higher up decides to take a look at my work. Does anyone else have new-job paranoia, where you spend the first month(s) of work irrationally scared you'll be fired for making a little mistake? I know I'll be fine, and I've loved being able to do what I love from sunup to sundown and make money for it, but I'm also a teensy bit exhausted.
>>>Time is a funny thing. So are seasons. Today I met Jared on campus for lunch. The original plan was peanut butter sandwiches, but this whole "earning money" thing is getting to my head so we bought food from some Indian guy instead. Indians (and nuns?) swarm SGU campus during lunchtime to sell really good food at darn-right decent prices. It's the best. As we chowed down, we had a little conversation about time (and Italy--always Italy). It's weird to me that it's November. Back in Utah, November is a time when I realize that the next 5 months are going to get progressively colder and grayer, and time seems to slow down a little in the meantime. Here, it still feels like summer, and it always will. In my head summer ends in August and so, obviously, it must still be August. Based on that alone, it doesn't feel like we've been here nearly long enough to be going home for Christmas in a month!
>>>After lunch, Jared walked me to the bus stop so he could get back to studying and I could get to the grocery store. Although I spent only 25 minutes in the grocery store, the trek there and back took me nearly two hours. 25 minutes were spent on bus rides, 25 more minutes were spent shopping, and the remaining hour was well spent playing Whale Trail on my phone while waiting for buses to show up. Granted, on days when the bus drivers stick to their schedules I should only have to wait maybe half an hour, but Island Time is definitely a thing. Now that I'm working, time is money. We just put a deposit down on a cute little old car (!!!) to take over at the end of the term, and with all the combined hours I'll be able to spend working instead of waiting for buses, the car will basically pay for itself. Really. I did the math in my head. At a bus stop.
>>>My phone stopped connecting to WiFi about a month ago. It's not a super big deal, but I guess it would be cool to be able to post to Instagram again and stuff. I've already done all the obvious things like checking my settings and turning it off and on. No luck. Any phone geniuses out there? Help? I have an Android . . .
Update: Psych, I fixed it! I had to do a factory reset, but it's all good now.
>>>I threw a Halloween party in our bedroom, because our bedroom is air conditioned and I'm really into that. The camera sat in the corner the whole time, so all I have to show for it is a little snapshot of the setup. All party supplies were provided by my sweet ma-in-law. Thanks Mama Lambert! A bunch of us med/vet school widows laughed all night long, sitting in a circle and eating waaaay too much candy and telling hilarious (and scary) stories. Don't worry, I still got to party with my Jared on Halloween. We ate pizza and watched Halloweentown.
