I had a microbio exam today. I can only get 7 more wrong to get a 4.0 and I think I got three wrong on this one. It's going to be tight, but I think I can do it. Hell, if I want my GPA to go up at all, I'd better do it.
On Friday, I have my first criminal justice exam. It's all online and I saved the lecture handouts and took down good notes. Since the exam is on-line, this means I'm in very good shape.

I'm going to see Steve this weekend, too. A large part of me is very excited for it, but the small part of me (the part that doesn't like to cry) kinda wishes I could just go a year without him. I love him and I love seeing him and being with him is what makes me feel like I can breathe, but it's also so, SO incredibly difficult to tear myself away again. It's like I'll be starting from square one next week, you know? And that's tough. But I've acclimated well so far, as has he, I think.
Sigh. Long distance is tough.

It makes me kinda nervous, too, that one of his co-workers was in almost the same situation: he got a job at J&J right out of college and had a girlfriend with a year to go still. She moved out there with him after she graduated and they broke up shortly after. I don't know the specifics of their relationship (Steve thinks they lacked trust), but I still can't help feel a little nervous about it. I mean, what if that happens to us? I don't want it to, and I don't think it will, but what do I know? It could, and then I'd really be screwed.

More screwed than I already am.
Although I think I've figured out the whole car thing. I know I'm going to make enough to put a decent down-payment on a good Honda, and I've done enough searching to know that there is more than one "ideal car" for me. So I'm not worried about that.

Now, I'm worried about jobs. There's an Amish research facility near to J&J and they do genetic mapping of diseases with the wonderfully isolated Amish population. This would be awesome. Steve also recommended that I look at J&J for career opportunities, or I could go the forensic science route (also awesome) and try to find something in Harrisburg. So I know there are a lot of career opportunities out there and I know I'd be well-suited to many of them.
The issue, for now, is getting recommendations.
My boss adores me, so five minutes on the phone with her would pretty much secure me any laboratory job I wanted. But I'm quite lacking on other recommendations, i.e. from my professors. I just feel like I can't talk to them because I understand all of the material and am too busy to make stupid small-talk. Maybe I should fake stupidity? I don't know. I think I'm going to e-mail my forensic science professor to attempt to open a dialogue - ask him what a day in his lab was like, if he would let me shadow, what I need to know, what's up-and-coming in the field. It's just so hard to meet face-to-face because I work and have class! And I know it'll only get worse once school starts up.

Blah. This entry was utterly uninteresting.