Bucket List

Whether you have a physical list or a mental list, I think it’s fair to say that everyone has a list somewhere of things they want to do, to see, to accomplish, or to experience before they reach a certain age (or die!). My mental list consists of a lot of places to travel to and career goals and whatnot, but after this weekend, I am able to cross off several things that I’ve never thought about.

I am doing a rotation at Children’s National Hospital in DC this month. To save myself the commute, I have been crashing with one of my good childhood friends who lives in the area. Coming home for the weekend this last Saturday, I discovered that my apartment had been broken into while I was away. My bedroom window has been opened somehow and the internal grating of the window had been kicked in. I had a fleeting panic attack, but after calling the police, mass texting my friends, and reassessing the situation, I realized that it could have been way worst.

Though I am without a few material goods now, including my Macbook Air, I am so grateful to not have been there when it happened. I think that is the scariest part of the whole situation. It was my bedroom window! And I’m a hard sleeper!

So to add to my bucket list, whether it was warranted or not, I can cross off that I have been robbed, that I’ve  called 911, and that I met a real-live crime scene investigator (though the ones on CSI are way cooler). Though I am relatively calm and collected about the situation, I am a little hesitant about having to sleep in the apartment. I am almost sure that whoever did this will never come back because he (or she) stole the only big valuable thing I owned, but now that it has happened, I know that I’m not immuned to these petty crimes as I once believed. Luckily but unluckily, I will be away most of the month in DC. I will have to call the landlords on Monday and see if something can be arranged.

On a brighter note, the rest of the weekend was absolutely wonderful. I’m grateful for that as well.