She's A Good Girl, Loves Her Mama, Loves Horses, And Her Boyfriend Too

Let's catch up a little, heh? A month ago, I walked into my job at Countrywide (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bank of America) and resigned. Yes, it wasn't fun, but it's what needed to happen if I want to be taken seriously this round of applications to medical schools. Within 24 hours of resigning, I was on the road down here to Florida where I've been living since. Ironically, I'm in the house all by myself because my parents like to spend their summers up in Park City. Can't blame them. When it gets in the high 90's here, and PC only tops out at 82, they made the right decision.
So I'm knocking around in a fairly large size home. No really. If you and a dozen of your friends want to stay near the beach, I know a guy with room. While down here, I've been looking around for jobs in medical centers and hospitals. Hopefully, something is going to come through within the next couple days, but nothing is certain. I've also been looking into volunteer opportunities, but, and I don't fully understand this, no one is looking for volunteers. I finally got a hold of a doctor in a specialty worth shadowing, and am trying to line something up with him, but that is looking like it might be a couple weeks.
So, to recap, I live alone in a good sized home, with no job, no volunteering and the beginnings of shadowing experiences. If you would have told me this was my life two years ago, I would have been ecstatic. Really, I divide my time in the mornings between fishing, sleeping, reading and television. Sleeping is leading the division by a good six games. Afternoons, I watch One Tree Hill (How did no one tell me about this show before now? I'm hooked. Maybe it's because I just watched the columbine episode and one of the main characters got shot, but regardless, I definitely looked on ebay to see what it would take to get the series- too much by the way.) and then make a couple phone calls or visits to the dozen or so people I stopped by concerning employment. At six, back to back Stump the Schwab comes on followed by Jeopardy at 7pm. after 7:30, dinner of some sort, then fishing, or watching a baseball game. Unless it's institute or FHE night. And I guess adult volleyball is starting on Fridays nights. So if you call, at any given time of day, you have a fairly good idea of where I am or what I'm doing. The deviation is starting to grow though, as I'm meeting more people roughly my age.
I really don't have an agenda for this post. Normally I wait until I do, but I figured going a month without anything of substance, no recapping baseball predictions does not count, is inexcusable.
However, I do need to dole out some props.
First and foremost: The Dark Knight. If you haven't seen it, seriously, shut down your computer right now and go see it. If you've only seen it once, go to hollywood.com and buy tickets for the next possible matinee. It's better than that good. It's simply incredible from all aspects. Cinematography, performances, score, symbolism, script. All of it. Easily the best movie I've seen in a decade. Better than Batman Begins, not by a lot mind you, but by a good margin. Just spectacular. When it hits the dollar theater, I will see it probably twice more. It will likely depend on how many dollars I have at that time.
Second: Baseball division races. Really, if you ever wanted to get into baseball, pick one of them 13 teams currently in the hunt for their respective divisions and follow them for the next month and change. It doesn't get any better than this year for baseball. All the teams are close and evenly matched (excluding the Angels).
Third: One Tree Hill (See above). I'm more interested it it than a man my age should be.
Word.