whats up

update:

critter is gone. im not sure how that happened.
Im taking mandarin. Theres only one other person under thirty besides myself, everyone else is old, retired, and white. but I convinced boyfriend to take it with me, so thats good.
I interviewed for a job at a construction company today. I would be analyzing concrete and rocks for quality control. It was 16 an hour and it didnt sound too bad until he mentioned it could be up to 15 hours a day and 60 hours of overtime a week. er...no thanks. but the plus side is that i totally rocked that highschool math test i had to take. (by highschool i mean math i did in fourth grade)
I have another interview for a teller at a bank tomorrow. only 10 an hour if that, but its inside and doesnt involve working with truck drivers and miners (no offense to miners, dad's from west virginia)
I am still hoping for that plant tech job with osu, pretty flexible and 10 an hour, but I havent heard anything yet so I may email again.
other than that, not much. we got season 3 of entourage today! if you havent seen it, watch it.

Theres something in the attic

I woke up in the middle of the night a couple nights ago to a faint scratchin above my head. As I woke further, the noise got louder, and progressed to thumping, and then a lot of scurrying. Now this was no quiet thing. It was quite loud enough to keep me up, and I'm convinced that it's got to be a rat. But for the sake of my sanity, we'll call it a squirrel. I'm not sure what its doing up there, it sounds like either it is trying to dig up some hidden treasures in the rafters, or he is merely keeping fit by doing laps around the attic. scurry scurry scurry across the ceiling. We tried knocking on the walls, then hitting, then literally banging on the walls to try and scare the critter out of our attic. But all that accomplished was a short pause between scratches, pauses that got significantly shorter as it realized nothing was coming for it. Finally the episode culminated with boyfriend standing on the bed and banging on the ceiling with the maglight. That seemed to work, and we fell asleep, only to be woken by the same sound (and probably the same critter) 2 hours later. We went straight to maglight, and it worked, but last night there were critter noises yet again. Boyfriend wants to kill whatever is, I'm hoping if we keep hitting the ceiling it will stop coming back, but I dont really want to wake up every night just to attend to a restless critter. I'm not ready to be a mother, and definetely not to some ocd'ed out squirrel.