For the last few weeks, I've been coming home from work, making dinner, and hitting the books at about 11 pm, studying until 2 am, sleeping, and going back to work at 9am. It's been pretty yucky. I've learned that trying to study after 8-9 hour days at work and after cooking and cleaning in a miniscule kitchen is no fun. But, now, I'm DONE. I'll know my score in 5 weeks. In the US, you take the test on a computer and find out your score immediately. NEVER take the GRE overseas. It's a total pain.
Work is getting a lot better. The store is still a giant mess, and sometimes I have to spend an entire day in the back room scaling 10 foot high piles of boxes to find 1 backpack in 3oo (NO EXAGGERATION), but this occurs far less often than it used to, and I'm getting along with my bosses a lot better. They lightened up quite a bit a few weeks ago when they realized the box situation wasn't going to get better for a very very long time, and that headquarters was being totally stupid. I actually like my job now. I like helping people with the backpacks. They are always headed somewhere interesting. The new part-timer is awesome. She's from hippy-land, a few hours into the middle of nowhere from Nelson. She went to school with commune kids named Moonbeam. She's going into a midwifery program. Her parents are living in Abu Dhabi. She's totally cool.
Colin and I are enjoying life in our flat. Last week we found walking tracks behind our house. We walked across the canyon into another part of the suburb and had to find our way home. We found the donkey that I heard for the first time while I was having a migraine. I took a photo to prove I wasn't hallucinating. My neighbor has a donkey. I love this country. Slinky the cat visits us twice a day. I think he only leaves when we go to work and when he's hungry (we don't feed him). He LOVES boxes. He attacks our boxes. Yesterday he came flying out of a box and scratched Colin's hand. He has a sleeping box too. He sleeps in there at night and goes out the cat door when he's ready to go home.
I started a garden last week. So far, I've got rainbow chard, 3 types of lettuce, mint, parsley, and cilantro in the ground. I have to rip out the grass to put in all of the seeds I bought. Hopefully I'll finish the planting on Thursday, and I'll have a crazy Davis-style veggie garden going strong by December. I really miss California veg. Spring is kind of getting started here. Colin and I went to a new grocery store today and found artichokes! I just about had a cow. Most kiwis don's know what an artichoke is. I bought 2 and got some green beans. Yippie!
I really miss California. I wish I was home for the election. I want to sit by the TV all day and see who's getting which state. I think I'll be stuck at work all day.
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