A job! Oh, and cooking...

So I found a job, and actually, Friday was the end of my second week there. I'm working for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, and it's totally awesome! I sent out emails to a bunch of people over my years at college (or at least I made an effort to) in order to keep them posted on what was going on. So I sent out a final one after graduation saying that I had graduated, but still had no job. And I got a reply from the Senior Director at the society saying they had a position open!

It's really a great job, and I really enjoy getting up every day and going to work. That said, it has absolutely nothing to do with either of my majors, but it's a fun job, it's a great non-profit company, and it's temporary. I have the rest of my life to get on my "career track", I figure I can spent 3-4 months doing something totally fun if I want to!

So, the job thing is taken care of, at least until April. But now I'm looking for health insurance, which is a bit insane. I know absolutely nothing about health insurance because I've always been covered by my mom's plan at work, until right about now. So I'm learning all about premiums and deductibles and coinsurance, and trying to figure out if there is actually any way to figure out what the best plan for me is. I'm thinking there isn't really an objective way to doing this, which just irks the heck out of me. (Damn things that don't have an obvious right and wrong answer!) So I'm getting my parents to help me, and hopefully soon it will be over and I won't have to think about it for a while. And then hopefully I'll have a job that includes health insurance as a benefit, and I really won't have to think about it!

On another note, I realized that when I move out of my parents house (sometime between May and August probably), I will no longer have a) a cafeteria to go to or b) someone to cook for me. This horrible realization hit me about two weeks before graduation, and so I have decided that I have to learn how to cook. (There's no way my wallet or my health can afford to eat out every day...) So as part of my mom's Christmas present from me I am helping her get her recipe binder up to date, both in printed format and in digital format. And as part of her present to me, she's taking me shopping and making me help her cook. So I'm learning all about how to tell if oranges are ripe ("they're heavy" says Mom), how to buy ginger ("get the least knobbly, it's a pain to peel"), and how to cook.

I'm actually finding it rather fascinating because I had always seen cooking as a chore, even though Mom enjoys it so much. But I'm realizing that if there is someone around for me to talk to, I don't mind cooking at all. It's a very economical way to eat; it's fairly cheap and easy to make a lot of food that you can eat as leftovers. (All you people older than me who are reading this and going "Well duh!", you hush up! I'm 23 and I haven't had to think about it until now because Mom cooked or I ate at the caf in college!)

But I gotta go, I have to go "taste this soup and tell me [Mom] what you think"!