I think my biggest pet peeve is when people make judgments, passive or otherwise, regarding my hesitency to go back to school. This is my last week at the non-profit and one of my collegues just came into my office to thank me for my time here. After asking what I was going to do when I was finished (go back full-time at the restaurant) he asked whether or not I was planning on finishing school. I told him I was but not for awhile since I am planning on buying a house in June and don't want to get in a financial crunch right when I make such a big investment. He looked at me, smiled and said "Oh" and then walked away. I don't understand how people can chastise me about not immediately finishing school when I have good jobs, a great apartment and live a very comfortable lifestyle. So why is my decision to postpone returning to school such an issue with everyone? I have always said I will go back, just not right now.

Maybe I am sensitive to this issue because it's been a very touchy subject with my father but overall, people always look at me like I'm some sort of failure because I didn't finish college and I support myself by being a waitress. But the thing is, I love waitressing. I love the people I work with, I love my bosses there and I love interacting with the people that come into the restaurant. I have a great, respectable job at the non-profit but I hate sitting at a desk all day and making financial reports. So I wait tables for a living. It's a good living and I like the flexibilty and I will be the first to admit that college wasn't the best fit for me. But when will people stop seeing that I dropped out and start seeing that I just choose an alternate way of getting there?

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I am not ready for it to be cold. It is freezing and suddenly I miss the hot and humid days I was loathing just a few weeks ago.

Last night my neighbor upstairs knocked on my door and asked if it was me that was singing. I said yes, as I had been cleaning my apartment and felt the need to sing along to some music to distract me. So she told me that it sounded really good and that she was a vocalist as well and wondered if I could hear her when she sang. I said no and that was it but later I wondered if she was just telling me that so that I would shut up or if she just wanted to tell me that she sang as well. Either way, it was an awkward encounter.

Someone brought Halloween cookies into the office this morning. Why would someone do that? I've already eaten two and I don't even like those kinds of cookies!

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i'm not ready for the weekend.

(i never though i would say that.)

my intern at work just called me OCD because i wanted my file folders to go left tab, center tab, right tab, left tab, etc.

(i don't think that's out of the norm. that's just called good organizational skills.)

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