Well, just when I think I've got it all planned out....
So yesterday I went to the breakroom to refill my water bottle and met Sally in there. She asked me if I wanted to live rent free and get free meals... Now who doesn't want to do that? I said yes of course, waiting for the other shoe to drop. She then asked me if I wanted to be a dorm monitor during summer semester. Whoa! I immediately had flashbacks of writing my prior post about getting to sleep in my own happy room with my head cradled in my own happy pillow far away from the drunk screaming students in the dorm and my heart sank. Fact is, I NEED to live rent free right now. I NEED that stipend I will get for being a dorm monitor. I really NEED this opportunity that has been handed to me. I just don't want it. But I know I can do it. I lived in those dorms for an entire month last year. With God's grace I can do it for three this year. I know He is providing for me.

See, I am a very private person. Private compared to most, I suppose. I really love being around people. I also really love my alone time. The way I grew up (in a large family) if you wanted alone time you went to your room. Usually this didn't work. Mama hen would realize one of her hatchlings was missing and would call for you. But I found that if you had a good reason to be there you got to stay. Typically, I would clean my room. Now, cleaning for me doesn't mean dusting, vacuuming, waxing- it meant tearing everything out of every drawer, shelf, corner, closet, and piling it up in the middle of my room, on my bed and anywhere else it could go. There were entire weeks that I couldn't sleep on my bed, and had to make a path through my room because my stuff was just all over. But this is how I do my thing. It helps me see everything and assess what doesn't need to stay. It drives dad nuts. But typically I would get the whole thing clean in about a week. All this to say, when I want quiet I want it now and I get it. Well, not so in the dorms.

Still, I think that this summer will be very good. I wish I could both live in the dorms and live with my roommates. I love being with Andrea and Michelle. I really love our house. And I love my routine, with everything neatly stored where it must be. (Okay, stop laughing, girls! I know I am not the neatest!) I have alot of food that I will have to leave at the house until I can use it all, or move back in, or something. At least I have somewhere to crash if I need some quiet, right?

So, in retrospect, I am both very excited, and very nervous. I want to be a dorm sup, but I also wanted to live in the intern houses for the summer. But I think that this will be a very good summer! Besides, I'm not taking classes!