Mystery Companies, Uncertain Futures

Today I got an e-mail to the department about a recruiting firm giving an online web presentation aimed at Masters, PhD, and post-doc’s. I checked out their website and I’m still not entirely clear what they do. It sounds like they form teams and go help companies out with problems, helping to build strategies and provide consultation . . . business jargon is daunting, but I will give their marketing department props—even without knowing what they REALLY do, it seemed exciting. So heck, I RSVP’d for the thing. . . we’ll see. I keep imagining they’ll make me drink orange juice and I’ll wake up on a submarine docked at a strange island. . .

If there was ever a time for an omen or a vision quest, I feel like now would be good. It’s that burning “what can I contribute to society” question. And furthermore, will it help pay off my credit card debt? It’s just a funny time. Does anyone else feel like this? Surely they do. It’s probably a quintessential 20-something dilemma. I’m starting to kick out that feeling of living constantly in an out-of-body experience. I feel a lot more like ME, which this sentence probably can’t ever describe clearly.

And finally, I’m going to my first UW belly dance club practice tonight—hopefully it will make me feel like I HAVE learned some things about the dance style. Alternatively, it may make me feel REALLY old. I still don’t get how undergrads can seem that much younger. Then again, my sister is an undergrad now, and she’s 7 years younger. . . .ugh, Ok, off drown my sorrows in coffee ?