omg my life

awesome things just keep happening. i don't even deserve this, life is too good.  there are starving kids in africa who need this luck.

i officially am signed up for my apartment.  it is mine.  all mine.  paint still to be decided, and the move in date keeps shifting around based on the painting times. at first they were gonna paint it, then i was gonna paint it, then i got a call today saying they'd hire someone to paint it. i'm totes fine with that as long as i still get to pick the color, gonna email my landlady maggie and make sure of that tonight.

but that's all humdrum, everyday lucky. let's talk about people flying across the world to hang out with me. i will flatter myself and say that i am 100% of the reason people come here. it has nothing to do with the fact that i am in an exotic super cool country and some people may or may not have scholarships to study here. basically it's all me.  but who cares about reasons, people are coming here!  nicole tegge, my super great ex-resident from the ra days, who has since gone on to her own amazing ra career, is coming for a week staring in a mere nine days. it is going to be only the best times, there will be housewarming parties, re-exploring all the best parts of taiwan, and awesome adventures. god willing i have a place to live by then lol.  could not be more excited.

in fact, the only event that could possibly rival this for excitement is if chris dosch (awesome kid from my major i regret not getting to know 3 years earlier), eric patterson (kid i met at a conference which was one of the best weekends ever), and some other guy (chris's friend who i'm sure is awesome) were coming.  what's that, they just booked tickets and will be here in november for nine days? hell yes. make no mistake, that is going to be an epic week.

other than that, just life as usual, found a great little bar with free pool and darts right near work, took a bunch of tpr kids out there, had a blast. today was happy hour all day, so that was nice too.  fun couple hours.  i can't even handle my life right now, all i do is exciting things when i'm not taking standardized tests. which actually takes up a lot of my time haha.  oh well, totally worth it. this is a really rewarding job, it's nice to be try out working hard. and i made friends with the work hard group who hangs out after work to do more work and be a little study group, that's new for me and actually surprisingly efficient.  if only i had done this in college lol