so...

I'm now the girl who passed out on the concrete floor at the quarterly company meeting and had to be taken to the emergency room for a few stitches. Which is REALLY good to be when you're the two-week-old intern.

No worries folks, I just have a pretty awesome bruise on my jaw where my stitches are. I got the day off of work, and lots of sympathy :) You know it's good when both of your bosses pick you up from the hospital and take you home.

A few tips I've learned from experience today:

1) Eat more than cereal for breakfast.
2) Drink LOTS of water, not just a little bit.
3) Don't lock your knees when you have to stand at the back of a presentation for a long time.
4) If you start to feel warm and dizzy, SIT DOWN. The fall will be a lot shorter.
5) If you want to be more than just the lowly nameless intern in the basement, black out in front of everyone in your company except the president (who had just left and will likely hear about it) and get taken off in an ambulance.
6) Try to sit down if you're being shown videos of a surgery. Even if you're not squeamish about blood, a combination of several of the above problems might take you out.
7) Have a sense of humor when you completely humiliate yourself.
8) Work for the kind of supervisors who will drive to the hospital, sit with you, and take you home (which I do) and with the kind of people who will call you to see if you want to go get ice cream after they get off work since you're new in town and don't know many people (also, I do).

Fortunately, I am blessed to work for great (and compassionate) people who are really concerned about me and just want me to get better. So for now I'm just going to eat lots of mashed potatoes and soup and get my 5 stitches out in a few days.

Oh, and for the record...I'M NOT PREGNANT (this is the first question at least 10 people will ask you if you pass out and go to the hospital). Just in case you were wondering.

:)

boulder

I've been living in Boulder, Colorado for a little over two weeks now...crazy, isn't it?

I have a phenomenal roommate, Katie. We haven't crossed paths a whole lot recently, but I'm really looking forward to staying with her this summer. I live just a few blocks away from the pedestrian mall downtown and within walking distance from a ton of cool stuff. My job is amazing and I'm learning more than I ever thought I would with a great company. The view all the way home from work is a panorama of beautiful mountains just a couple of miles away.

I love it here. Everything is beautiful, you can walk five minutes to the base of a mountain to hike, bikes are everywhere, everyone's healthy and loves the outdoors, the city is clean and sunny most of the time (except today when the weather is disgusting), the pedestrian mall downtown is always full of people, the community atmosphere is really awesome. And as much as I love it here...I'd never live here long-term.

It's awesome to be here for now. I have an amazing job that I've unofficially been re-offered for next summer, as well as a really great living situation that might even be open again next summer as well, and I'm really enjoying the whole feel of this place. But I also know that it's probably not going to be my home in 10 years. I can't really explain that, but I'm realizing that not every decision you make or every job you start or every place you move to has to be long-term. Some things are just meant to be temporary parts of your life that you enjoy, thrive in, learn from, and move on.

I love learning and having new experiences and absorbing life around me, and I've never learned more in such a short amount of time. I've been spoiled with supervisors who take lots of time out of their really busy days to literally mentor me and make sure I'm challenged but not overwhelmed. People here are really...different...and you can learn something from all of them. It is really different without actually feeling that different.

More updates are coming soon...meanwhile, I've become an old person with a full-time job who can no longer stay up late. Goodnight friends, I miss you!!!