First day of the rest of my life

So, since everyone was doing it, I thought I needed to join in the blogging community too. I don't think my life is interesting enough to actually have an audience, but maybe there is someone out there more boring than me that would find my mere existence an exciting one. Hmm...let's see. Well, today I've woken up, petted the cats and got on-line. I checked my email and all my community accounts, updated Mafia Wars on Myspace (I bought my first beachfront HOTEL! YES!) and then I thought about starting this blog. After I finish with this first post, I'm going to eat some breakfast and start today's studying for the GRE. I started looking over the books just a couple days ago, and last night's lesson was READING COMPREHENSION. After reading all the hints they try and teach you using the Princeton Review, I tried one. Yes, I am officially stupid. Out of the 4 questions that came after the passage, of which I thought I answered correctly mind you, I got 1 question right. Yes, that's right folks, I succeeding in scoring a 25% on that one. I went to bed after that. So, hopefully today's lesson will be a little better than that. I can't have people thinking that I'm an idiot trying to get into grad school.

On another note, hotel living has been grand. We have now been living in a room, yes one room, for 10 weeks and 5 days now. Granted, we do have a bathroom and a pseudo kitchen (there are two burners and a refrigerator) but we are ready to have a living room and a couch again. And I am ready to get all my kitchen supplies back. I have been aching to bake for months now and haven't had an oven or any baking supplies to do it. Yes, I need my Kitchen Aide and my Cuisinart stuff back! Pronto! For those that do not know, we have a contract on a foreclosed house in Springfield, VA. We had hoped to be in by this week, but we were set back at our inspection last week. We had the seller's agents turn on the water in the house so we could perform an inspection. They didn't go check it after it had been turned on. Who knows how long the water had been off. Anyways, one of the pipes in the ceiling of the utility room in the basement was leaking...and had been leaking for what appeared to be days. There was a substantial puddle of standing water on the floor. If there wasn't mold growing in that room before, if this water was to stay there, there would be soon. So, we weren't able to perform the inspection and the seller supposedly got a contractor in there that night to try and assess the situation. Although we are going to be buying the place As Is, as you have to when it's a foreclosure, since this was NOT the state the house was in when we signed the contract, they agreed to fix it. So, once we hear back from our realtor that they have fixed those problems, then we can reschedule the inspector and move forward. At this point I feel like we are going to be living in this hotel forever.

Oh, one more thing before I sign off for now, I found a job that was posted yesterday that I would love to get. The title is DNA Analyst 1 and I would be working in Lorton, VA which isn't too far from Springfield. I applied online and also left a message and sent an email to them. If I don't hear anything back today about the questions I asked, I'll call again tomorrow. If I was to get the opportunity for this job, I would still take the GRE but wouldn't go to grad school. At least, not yet. This is the exact job I've been looking for, but most of the time you have to have a Master's degree to even be considered. This is an exception. I would definitely still like to go back to school to further my education, but maybe this place would reimburse schooling. Who knows? But I was excited about finding it nonetheless. Cross your fingers for me that I'll at least get an interview. I don't have any experience doing that kind of work except for the couple month internship I had way back in the fall of 2001. But I'm hoping since I do have 2.5 years of lab experience plus that little bit of time with the internship, that they would at least give me an interview. And then they would be mine....Ha Ha Ha....

Au revoir for now.