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So I'm home alone again. My family keeps going on trips because my dad has a two week vacation. That's all fine and dandy, but I actually sorta miss going on vacations with my family. The last time I went was senior year of high school... to Florida. Oh well. I think what I really need is to get out of here for a few days. I swear, Rob has gone on so many vacations this year. Don't get me wrong, London was incredible, but I'm a trip whore. Traveling is one of my favorite things.
Nicole and I were looking into staying in Wildwood for a few nights... but it's ridiculously expensive. Living in NJ my whole life, I forget that the Jersey shore is a huge tourist spot for non-NJers. And the last week in August is the most expensive time of the year.
I want to go camping again... for real though, none of that barely roughing it stuff. And horse back riding, and drive-in, and so much of that other stuff I swore I'd do this summer. It's mid-July, time is running out. Which I'm kind of okay with, just because I'm excited for Rutgers. A little nervous, but mostly excited.
Today I cleaned my closet out entirely. I took EVERYTHING out, threw out a bunch of crap, and reorganized. That's just step one of my room cleansing. I have to steam clean the carpet, take everything off the walls, fix my bed, and rearrange all my furniture. For some reason, moving stuff around makes me feel like I'm somewhere new and exciting. Oh the simple pleasures that keep me going, as I become more and more eager to move out.
I'm getting frustrated with my job. Don't get me wrong, I love how convenient it is, but just like any job it has it's down sides. For one, my boss has been asking me to come into the office more and more. Now, like I've said before, I took this job with the knowledge that I didn't have to commute to Newark. If the office was somewhere closer... and didn't require me to drive through a shitty neighborhood... I'd have no problem with going in. And I always feel bad telling him I can't go in, but he'll guilt me into it. Also, it's pointless. I understand meeting with him face to face is important from time to time, just to catch up with goals and whatnot. But for me to go in and sit in an adjacent cubicle for six hours... doing precisely what I'd be doing from my house... minus the 1 hour 30 minute commute. But oh well, I'll deal.
Two, he has yet to give me the 'summer raise' that he had mentioned to me earlier this year. I'll leave it at that.
Three, I'm skilled in graphic design, HTML, that sort of thing. That is what I signed up for when I took this job. What am I doing? E-marketing, calling people, setting up audio campaigns, grabbing promotional text from other websites, doing all sorts of crap that I really have no experience in. Okay, fine, every job has new challenges. But he gets annoyed when I don't do it right. Just today, he realized I had given one of my coworkers access to this site stat page. It made more sense to give him access to all the statistics, rather than having him figure out what he needs, ask me to find them, and then for me to mail everything to him. And my boss gives me attitude because apparently only him, our A1 team, and I were supposed to log in... he doesn't want people "screwing around" with it. Only thing is, as far as I can tell, there is NO WAY for anyone to make any changes to anything... it's all generated information from the website... nobody could mess it up or anything. Gosh.
I mean, I'm not about to quit because this job is really fantastic otherwise. I dunno, everybody seems to think that all I do is sit on my pc in my pajamas and run their myspace... and that's FAR from what I've been doing the past year (almost).
Anywho, Ed Rue is here. Time to go.
Nicole and I were looking into staying in Wildwood for a few nights... but it's ridiculously expensive. Living in NJ my whole life, I forget that the Jersey shore is a huge tourist spot for non-NJers. And the last week in August is the most expensive time of the year.
I want to go camping again... for real though, none of that barely roughing it stuff. And horse back riding, and drive-in, and so much of that other stuff I swore I'd do this summer. It's mid-July, time is running out. Which I'm kind of okay with, just because I'm excited for Rutgers. A little nervous, but mostly excited.
Today I cleaned my closet out entirely. I took EVERYTHING out, threw out a bunch of crap, and reorganized. That's just step one of my room cleansing. I have to steam clean the carpet, take everything off the walls, fix my bed, and rearrange all my furniture. For some reason, moving stuff around makes me feel like I'm somewhere new and exciting. Oh the simple pleasures that keep me going, as I become more and more eager to move out.
I'm getting frustrated with my job. Don't get me wrong, I love how convenient it is, but just like any job it has it's down sides. For one, my boss has been asking me to come into the office more and more. Now, like I've said before, I took this job with the knowledge that I didn't have to commute to Newark. If the office was somewhere closer... and didn't require me to drive through a shitty neighborhood... I'd have no problem with going in. And I always feel bad telling him I can't go in, but he'll guilt me into it. Also, it's pointless. I understand meeting with him face to face is important from time to time, just to catch up with goals and whatnot. But for me to go in and sit in an adjacent cubicle for six hours... doing precisely what I'd be doing from my house... minus the 1 hour 30 minute commute. But oh well, I'll deal.
Two, he has yet to give me the 'summer raise' that he had mentioned to me earlier this year. I'll leave it at that.
Three, I'm skilled in graphic design, HTML, that sort of thing. That is what I signed up for when I took this job. What am I doing? E-marketing, calling people, setting up audio campaigns, grabbing promotional text from other websites, doing all sorts of crap that I really have no experience in. Okay, fine, every job has new challenges. But he gets annoyed when I don't do it right. Just today, he realized I had given one of my coworkers access to this site stat page. It made more sense to give him access to all the statistics, rather than having him figure out what he needs, ask me to find them, and then for me to mail everything to him. And my boss gives me attitude because apparently only him, our A1 team, and I were supposed to log in... he doesn't want people "screwing around" with it. Only thing is, as far as I can tell, there is NO WAY for anyone to make any changes to anything... it's all generated information from the website... nobody could mess it up or anything. Gosh.
I mean, I'm not about to quit because this job is really fantastic otherwise. I dunno, everybody seems to think that all I do is sit on my pc in my pajamas and run their myspace... and that's FAR from what I've been doing the past year (almost).
Anywho, Ed Rue is here. Time to go.