so i know its been a while but its been a fairly busy last 3 weeks. loooong story short, i’m all settled in here in riverside. after spending a week in a hotel and going jumping through more hoops than a circus monkey i got myself and apartment. its a little more than i wanted to pay but considering all the places in town that are in my ideal price range are full of rowdy college kids that would most likely break into my car, i’m not complaining. the first few nights were awesome. it was just like camping but indoors. all i had was a sleeping bag, pillow, 2 suitcases of clothes and a kitchen full of plastic dishes. i didn’t even have hot water the first two days. i would’ve lit a camp fire if it wouldn’t cost me my security deposit.
i came up over thanksgiving and loaded up a uhaul full of furniture and various other acoutrements so my place would actually look like someone lived in it. the whole family came down on saturday to help me move my stuff. my dad and i spent saturday night putting together some furniture. let me just say that futons are surprisingly difficult to assemble and allen wrenches are amazingly ineffecient tools for furniture assembly. my place is still full of boxes (some that need to be unpacked, some that need to be tossed) but i’m working on it.
other than that, work is cool. i finished up training last wednesday and i started taking cases on monday. fisrt couple days were crazy but i’m getting adjsuted to the caseload and getting a hang of the process. from what i hear, i’ll be “bulletproof” after a month so that’s something to look forward to. in the meantime, i have cable now and i need to work out a system for figuring which of my 120 channels to watch and which not to watch. hell, i can’t even decide on ice cream at cold stone, so cable is blowing my mind right now. but i’ll tell you this, no mtv. never. ever.
