Current mood:

optimistic

Jobs and Sex.
I finally found a job I'm pretty sure I'll love. The pay is great. The perks of the job are fun (Ex: free yoga classes) and it pertains to my interests (health and fitness)!

I'm glad I spent these two months waiting to find the right job. I felt like such a bum not working, but I really wanted to find a job that I would want to work at for the WHOLE 2 years I am going to be here. I win. Yay!

Last night in my class, they brought in the STD prevention team from the health department to class to talk about what they do to try and lower the rather alarming rate of STDs in this city. Of course they come armed with pictures that I would rather not see and facts that would pretty much scare any normal person IMO.

There are times I think I'm being so rediculous about holding out for the right person and then I have nights like last night where I'm reminded of why you can't trust John Doe who you've been seeing for only a few weeks (or even months), etc. I mean it's got to be embarressing to get an STD you can cure, but at least you can go to a clinic and get it cured. You contract HIV on the other hand, and you're going to spend the rest of your life (which won't be as long as you want it to be) on loads of drugs. And yeah, you can protect yourself various ways, but the only way to be 100% sure you don't get a disease is to keep your legs closed.

I sound like my dad. Scary. Although my dad and I believe in abstinence for two totally different reasons. haha. He just believes it's flat out wrong. I'm terrified of becoming a mom or getting an incurable disease because both of those things would obviously derail my life and not in a good way.

It was sad to hear about the few cases they get when they get young people that haven't been married very long and they have to hear from the health department that they have an STD and if thier husband/wife is the only one they've been having sex with, then thier partner has obvioiusly been having sex with someone else. Can you imagine getting an STD or HIV from someone that you thought you could trust?! Apparently it's not as uncommon as one might think. It's really sad. I feel for people like that. I guess the lesson there is that the only person you can trust 100% is yourself.

Anyways, maybe I'm paranoid, but the statistics are not good. I think it's 1 in 4 people that will have an STD at some point in thier life and statistics show that in some communities as many as 1 in 3 people have an STD. Those are pretty scary odds if you decided to get down with some random guy. Most STDs don't even show symptoms for a long time so that random person might not even know they have it even if you asked them. Scary.

Be safe people! I know most of my friends don't live the sexual lifestyle of many people our age, but still...I know some of you do!

OK, I'm done with my Public Service Announcement! =P