*waves* Remember me? I think I didn't update after my interview immediately because I was tired of telling the same story over and over. And then it was Christmas...and then I was tired...and finally, I think I've mustered the energy to post!
So first, the vet school interview recap:
I spent the night before in the duplex with Emily. It was a very nice and comforting place to be (we watched "Finding Nemo" Wednesday night and I found myself echoing Dory's "Just keep swimming" while I was waiting to start my interview). Oh, yes, well, nice and comforting except for the alcoholic roommate who stormed in and out of the duplex about 3 times during the wee hours of the morning and had several loud, lengthy conversations on her cell phone just outside Emily's bedroom. Then I drove myself to A&M's Medical Sciences Library Thursday morning for my interview. It went okay. Not great, not horrible. There were three interviewers, and one in particular asked some hard questions. If I'd known the questions in advance, I'd have certainly answered his questions better than I did in the room. One of the interviewers was my anatomy professor, and it was weird because in the classroom she was always rather intimidating, but when I saw her in that interview room, I was like "yay! A friendly face!" The interview lasted 30 minutes, and while I didn't shoot myself in the foot or anything, I don't think I really helped myself a ton either. Afterwards, Emily and I ate at IHOP and she accompanied me to the mall where I got my ear cartilage pierced (it was something I'd been thinking about doing for years now, and I figured I was owed a reward - one neat thing: the 12 weeks I have to wait before I can change the earring is just about exactly the duration I have to wait until I hear about vet school). Then I headed back to Dallas, having a lovely phone conversation with Amanda on the way. /end recap
So then, suddenly Christmas was upon me. I had to work my lunch shift at Cisco on Christmas Eve, which made me feel rather grown up and in the real world. I went back to the apartment and Matt and I gathered our things to prepare for a whirlwind two days. We had the traditional Hall family Christmas Eve dinner with Mom, Dad, Leslie, Bryan, and Carolyn. Then Carolyn went home but the rest of us headed to the Roberts' to play games and chat before tucking ourselves into bed. Leslie and I slept together as we have for the last 20 years or so, while Bryan and Matt were both slightly put out (but in matching pajama bottoms that Leslie and I had gotten for them, which we felt more than made up for the inconvenience). Christmas morning we all opened presents (highlights: some neat things for our walls, new hiking boots, family home movies on DVDs, a video game, and furry pillows for our sofa). Then Matt and I headed over to his house to join their present openings. There Matt got new hiking boots, we got some DVDs, and I got an awesome North Face jacket, among other things. After some spectacular grilled cheese sandwiches and a check-in on Miss Pipes, Luke, Emily, Matt and I headed to College Station for Christmas #3 (this one with Susie's family). Matt had to work Tuesday-Wednesday (well, I guess I had to work Tuesday/Thursday too). Thursday night was Christmas #4 (John's family this time), and after that we were *finally* done with Christmas!
Matt and I had an awesome four-day weekend together over New Years. I was supposed to work at the EAC for Stephanie, but she found someone still employed there to work it instead, and Mike said he didn't mind still working my Saturday Cisco shift anyway. We had Luke and Emily over for games and watching Mr. and Mrs. Smith on Friday night, and the rest of the time we chilled, relaxed, and recovered. I've been playing lots of Dragon Quest VIII (PS2 RPG game from Leslie and Bryan) in the past week, and it's been great. And Matt has been digging all the bowl games on TV (as I write this Texas is beating USC 16-10 in the Rose Bowl). Also, I had breakfast with Brittany on Monday and saw Brokeback Mountain on Monday with Debbie (from Cisco).
...I guess that's it. New Year's Resolution: to not have another blogging month like December!
Oh, and here's a trivia question for my readers: what significance does the value 10% have to Cameron's life relating to the year of 2005? The winner will receive, as Matt would say, $1.
4 comments:
I gave Mom some clues to my trvia question and thought I should share them with the rest of y'all: 1) the 10% relates to only me, not Matt; 2) it isn't related to taxes. :)
My guess for the day: you spent 10% of 2005 playing WOW?
Dang it, you got it! Mom is the winner! (thanks so much for all 0 of the other participants =P)
I played Warcraft for at least 38.3 days in 2005, which is roughly 10.5% of the year... which is why I cancelled my account, because that's just scary. But in my defense, a lot of that was the spring when Matt was in major busy season and I was killing time until the wedding.
Congrats on kicking the habit!
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