| I haven't written in a long time again, so I thought I'd make a little update. Weirdest thing happened the other day. I got an e-mail from the other tenant I used to live with at the crazy old lady's house. He had lived there for 5 years and now the crazy old lady was accusing him of going into her room and stealing her cell phone. So he contacted all the tenants who lived in the room I was on over the 5 years and asked them to give him any evidence (e-mails, docs, etc) so he could prepare a report to be sent to Cal Rentals and the police. Apparently, the crazy old lady has a history of accusing her tenants of ridiculous things. I read the report he put together, and good Lord, that woman is seriously off her rocker. One person was accused of stealing marijuana out of her room, so she took that money out of his deposit. She was going to charge another guy $800-$1000 for a dent she found on the hardwood floor. All these other crazy things that I'm sure none of these people did. Thank goodness I got out of there! (Well... I was kind of forced to anyway...) It actually turned out for the better because I found a group of cool girls to live with and I made new friends. After the semester ended, I moved to Emeryville with one of my previous roomies and another friend. I love it! Such an upgrade from Berkeley apartments. I'm also still working at Novartis, and now it's only a 10 min walk to work. I was doing admin work before, which was so boring, but there was a lab opening that I took. Now I'm helping with Alzheimer's disease research, and it's very interesting. It's a contracted job that ends in August. Hopefully, they'll like me enough to hire me! Or else, I'll have to do the job hunt, which would suck uggghhh. The interns just started this week and it made me nostalgic from last year, when I was an intern. Being an intern was fun, but now I feel like I have to be lots more professional and proper now that I'm not an intern anymore. I want to get a car just to be a little more independent, but I need to learn how to drive first, lols. I know I owe a lot of people for driving me around over the years. And I know they will all start calling me up once I feel confident to drive again to be DD... unless they're still scared of my driving skills, haha. Oh, the driving stories I have... Erik and I are doing great. He's almost done with the school year. I'm proud to say that we got through our first long distance school year. He has an internship in LA, and I'm kind of sad, but I'm very proud of him. There were a lot of things I wanted us to do this summer, that we won't get to do. Long distance sucks. But oh well. He makes me happy, and that's what makes long distance worth it. So... life has been great so far. The new place is the biggest thing right now. Just getting used to a new city and new environment. And... that's it! :) |
Erika
