59 days and counting...

That's how many days I have left in Leesburg, FL. Can't wait to move on to the next adventure! Especially since Leesburg has turned out to be everything I thought it would be, which is really not much of anything. Not much has changed since my last blog post...

I'm still enjoying the lake, although from a distance now, since the warmer weather has brought on what they call here in Leesburg "blind mosquitoes". I don't know why they're called that, but all I know is they're EVERYWHERE! I almost want to wear a mask when I exit my front door so that I don't breathe any in. Who knew there was a downside to living on a lake. They tell me that the season for these blind mosquitoes should be over in a week or two, though. I did, however, get some pictures of Silver Lake just before the mosquito swarm took over completely...I decided to go for a quick run around the lake since it's about a three mile circumference...I haven't run at all since my race in February, and I wanted to see what kind of shape I was (or wasn't) in, so I laced up my shoes and took my camera with me to take pictures (also so I'd have an excuse to stop running, so that I could still delude myself into thinking that I was in decent shape). Enjoy the pictures.

I'm still not enjoying my job, but I'm learning to not hate it. Things have gotten somewhat easier since my first week, I'm learning the ropes, and starting to figure things out a bit. Well, at least I think I am. Some days, like today, I feel like the world's worst PTA. That's what happens when one of your patients ends up on the floor. But everything was okay, not the end of the world. I'm really trying not to let work get to me as much as it used to. I knew going into travel therapy that the assignments I would get would not be the easy jobs. They're paying me the big bucks to work here for three months because that's their only option, since they can't seem to keep permanent staff around (two therapists have already quit since I started there four weeks ago). Since I already expected this sort of assignment, I'm just trying to leave work stuff at work and not worry about it when I get home. I'm not doing travel therapy for the great jobs, I'm doing it for the experience and the travel, so that's what I plan to focus on.

With that in mind, I'm excited about exploring a new area of town that my co-workers have been telling me about. It sounds like the gem of this area...antique stores, boutiques, fine dining restaurants, casual restaurants on the lake, etc. I'm going to explore it soon, maybe this weekend. I have to scout it out before my mom and my friend Meredith come to visit. I've got to have something exciting to show them! Hopefully it will be a positive experience that will brighten the next 8 1/2 weeks here. Well, that's a little unfair. My first 4 1/2 weeks haven't been that bad...I've been enjoying a lot of quiet weekends, getting in some good reading and some great cooking. It's been very restful.

I'm off to Gainesville next weekend for Mother's Day...It's going to be weird going "home" to visit, but I'm looking forward to seeing my parents and grandparents, brother, and friends...