starzki | *braindead*

I started my temp job yesterday.

This part of the state has been undergoing major changes in the past decade. A person couldn't recognize most places they'd lived or worked. Most buildings have come down with new ones to replace them pretty much everywhere.

So how is it that, 12 years after my first temp job, as a newly minted college student who wasn't even old enough to drink, my latest temp job is in the exact same building as the first one? I'm working for a completely different company, it's just the building is the same.

I had to sit in the car for 5 minutes yesterday and decide whether or not to laugh or cry at just how far my life hasn't gotten. Yes, now I have a Ph.D., am married, and can order a margarita when I want one, but I'm still living with my parents without my guy and still having to scrape myself out of bed at 6:15 every morning to go into a temp job that I don't particularly like.

I finally decided the $5.50 an hour over what I made 12 years ago does show some progress. :-/