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Apr. 25th, 2011 03:41 pmLast time I checked (last weekend), I'm down to my pre-university weight. Which is nice on the one hand (more walking exercise) but not so nice on the other (malnourishment).
Also, I told my sister about my linguistics transfer; she's the first one in the family to know. She assures me that to my parents, money would be no object, so long as it's not a dead-end academia-only field (which linguistics isn't, unlike English lit or something).
She took the words out of my mouth, saying that it's just happened to take me longer to figure out what I wanted to do; when we are younger we think in terms of professions because the career at the end of the educational path seems more pre-determined: study medicine -> be a doctor. study law -> be a lawyer. study finance -> be a banker. I mean, it's only natural that we prefer certainty over uncertainty. She knew all along that I only aspired to teaching for that certainty, to be able to pay the bills while I kept searching for myself.
My parents are on vacation right now, for the next couple of weeks. It's just a matter of time now before they find out -- when either of us speaks. (My sister's best friend - who has been acting strangely ever since her older sibling completed law school - just dropped out of law school herself because she wants to go into show biz; my sister thinks that my news would be more palatable if she mentions her best friend's situation first.)
Also: am becoming a caffeine addict. I haven't had my fix today and I feel woozy all over. Of course, the live-in sauna situation isn't helping with that either.
Also, I told my sister about my linguistics transfer; she's the first one in the family to know. She assures me that to my parents, money would be no object, so long as it's not a dead-end academia-only field (which linguistics isn't, unlike English lit or something).
She took the words out of my mouth, saying that it's just happened to take me longer to figure out what I wanted to do; when we are younger we think in terms of professions because the career at the end of the educational path seems more pre-determined: study medicine -> be a doctor. study law -> be a lawyer. study finance -> be a banker. I mean, it's only natural that we prefer certainty over uncertainty. She knew all along that I only aspired to teaching for that certainty, to be able to pay the bills while I kept searching for myself.
My parents are on vacation right now, for the next couple of weeks. It's just a matter of time now before they find out -- when either of us speaks. (My sister's best friend - who has been acting strangely ever since her older sibling completed law school - just dropped out of law school herself because she wants to go into show biz; my sister thinks that my news would be more palatable if she mentions her best friend's situation first.)
Also: am becoming a caffeine addict. I haven't had my fix today and I feel woozy all over. Of course, the live-in sauna situation isn't helping with that either.
