Random update, even though you probably do not give two shits about my life! I got hired!
Yeah, I can’t believe it either. Someone decided to hire me. Even after my whole dramatic post about caring about myself and yada yada yada. It’s kind of nice feeling wanted — by a company, that is (hello, dad.)
Side note: If you represent the company that decided to employ me, please ignore whatever I just wrote 🙂.
So I’m pretty glad about that. I got a few interview offers and was kind of shocked by the options I ended up with. I even got an interview request from a program whose application test I took right after getting my wisdom teeth out. I prepped pretty hard for that test, but oh boy was I drugged up.
I also had a really fantastic, rejuvenating and very much needed trip to the motherland, a.k.a. India. To clarify, my parents are from there. I was born in Baltimore, which makes me 100% ‘Merican. (Cue: voice of American football dad yelling “YEAH!”)
To be honest, I’ve gone through a lot of life changes in the past two years, so I expected the reunion between my family in India — whom I hadn’t seen since like the seventh grade — and me, my mom and my sister to be kind of awkward. It was the opposite of awkward. It was great.
In fact, it was so great that I am seriously thinking about living there for a few months. I found an appreciation for the motherland that I never really had as a kid in the suburbs of North Carolina. I felt so loved and warm and fuzzy inside. Itchy because of the mosquitos, and sick because of food poisoning I got after eating pav bhaji at a roadside stall, but loved and warm and fuzzy nonetheless.
I don’t know where life is going to take me from here. And I’m almost positive that the road ahead isn’t just sunshine and giggles. But at least I kind of know what I’m doing for the next few months.