(no subject)
so i'm currently updating for the first time in one million years from the desk of the 'assistant to the editor-in-chief' of the magazine, brandon holley.
who is that assistant, you ask?
oh, you know, me.
well, at least for the day, because the other girl is out for the week. i kind of want to go back to transcribing interviews at my hidden desk by the door, as far away as you can possibly get from the editor-in-chief, because i hate screwing up where everyone can see. i already accidentally answered the managing editor's phone line, and the person on the other end happened to be jane pratt, asking for directions to the four seasons for a lunch date. whoops. it didn't help that a) i am not the managing editor, b) she thought i was, and c) i don't know where the four seasons is.
i feel like i'm supposed to be doing something, but apparently, i'm just supposed to be answering phone calls (there have been 3 in the past 6 hours), so i am amusing myself by perusing my friends list and discovering (about 10 years too late) the hilarity of pink is the new blog (which, p.s. - jack, brad is on that quite a bit. did you know that? is this old news?)
aaaanyway.
so, for those of you that actually care to read a general update of my life (very few of you i'm going to assume, but GUESS WHAT, i'm going to do it anyway), things have been good, i guess, but very busy.
school is school. whatever. those of you who know me know that i don't really "do" school. stephanie is probably nodding her head in agreement right now as she takes the media ethics notes that i will photo-copy come midterm time. the only things i think are worth noting is that my old roommate, lauren, is in my anthropology lecture and recitation. i was anticipating an awkward semester of ignoring each other, but things have been fine. maybe it's only awkward on my end. also, jorge -- a really hot puerto rican guy who also lived on my floor freshman year, and who i lusted after -- is in both, too. i'd never actually heard him talk before.. only saw him waiting for the elevator on the 6th floor of palladium. but SURPRISE, he is actually very smart.. or maybe it's just his really attractive spanish accent. whatever. he is hot. that is all that matters.
i am also in a gender & sexuality class, which thusfar has unceasingly gotten more on my nerves the more i attend class. i am taking it pass/fail, but i still unfortunately feel a need to attend class because my professor is an attendance nazi, and i am afraid of making him/her (it's still kind of unclear) mad. every single person in that class is annoying liberal and feels the need to complain at length about everything in modern society with absolutely no examples to back any of their complaints up and no suggestions for how to improve the problems. this is what i hear whenever i go to class...
"blah blah PATRIARCHY SUCKS blah blah MEN HAVE THE POWER blah blah PATRIARCHY SUCKS blah blah WE ARE OPPRESSED blah blah DID I MENTION PATRIARCHY SUCKS"
i apologize to anyone who is a gender & sexuality major (i know there are a few of you on here). i don't mean to offend anyone, but these classes are definitely not for me. i feel it more and more lately.. as i get older/further into my college career, i've gotten so much more complacent about politics, women's issues, etcetc. i mean, i've never really been well-versed in any of those things, i mostly just spouted off other people's opinions as my own, but at least i cared about them. i just don't give a shit anymore. but enough about that.
work-wise, i am an editorial intern at JANE magazine, which i honestly think i only got because i had good timing and my hours were long and convenient for them. i basically work three full days a week, and i'm justifying the no-pay, no-credit situation with the consolation that hopefully this will look really good on my resume (here's to hopin'). i had a really shitty first week, but it's gotten professively better. i have gotten really good at intern-y stuff like researching on lexis-nexis, copying invoices, sending expensive camofluoge hats back to kitson, and transcribing interviews where i suspect that the people being interviewed made it their perogative to turn their mouths 180 degrees IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION of the microphone. everyone is really nice, though, and for the most part it is very enjoyable, especially since all of the writers that i loved as a reader of the magazine are working in their cubicles all around me. and i'm gonna be on the masthead!!! so look for it on the november (nicole richie) issue. plus the other interns are really cool. and yeah, that's about it.
the sorority is stressing me out for various reasons which i won't get into, mostly because i know most of you won't know what the fuck i'm talking about.
i guess the bottom line is that i'm pretty busy, but for some reason, less stressed out that i was, say, last year. probably because president is more of a representative position as opposed to a task-oriented position like vice president was, and i'm using my time better. unfortunately, i don't get drunk and go out nearly as much as is necessarily for my mental happiness and well-being, but i guess that happens as you get "older." i am currently looking forward to: genevieve visiting, three 311 shows in a month and a half/jenna visiting, thanksgiving break, winter break in california, a winter break trip to illinois, and spring break probably in mexico. is it bad that i'm looking forward to things that are light years away?
anyway, let me know how you all are. who knows when i will update this shiznit again. probably the next time i am the assistant to the editor-in-chief (never).
ADIOS, MOTHER TRUCKERS.
who is that assistant, you ask?
oh, you know, me.
well, at least for the day, because the other girl is out for the week. i kind of want to go back to transcribing interviews at my hidden desk by the door, as far away as you can possibly get from the editor-in-chief, because i hate screwing up where everyone can see. i already accidentally answered the managing editor's phone line, and the person on the other end happened to be jane pratt, asking for directions to the four seasons for a lunch date. whoops. it didn't help that a) i am not the managing editor, b) she thought i was, and c) i don't know where the four seasons is.
i feel like i'm supposed to be doing something, but apparently, i'm just supposed to be answering phone calls (there have been 3 in the past 6 hours), so i am amusing myself by perusing my friends list and discovering (about 10 years too late) the hilarity of pink is the new blog (which, p.s. - jack, brad is on that quite a bit. did you know that? is this old news?)
aaaanyway.
so, for those of you that actually care to read a general update of my life (very few of you i'm going to assume, but GUESS WHAT, i'm going to do it anyway), things have been good, i guess, but very busy.
school is school. whatever. those of you who know me know that i don't really "do" school. stephanie is probably nodding her head in agreement right now as she takes the media ethics notes that i will photo-copy come midterm time. the only things i think are worth noting is that my old roommate, lauren, is in my anthropology lecture and recitation. i was anticipating an awkward semester of ignoring each other, but things have been fine. maybe it's only awkward on my end. also, jorge -- a really hot puerto rican guy who also lived on my floor freshman year, and who i lusted after -- is in both, too. i'd never actually heard him talk before.. only saw him waiting for the elevator on the 6th floor of palladium. but SURPRISE, he is actually very smart.. or maybe it's just his really attractive spanish accent. whatever. he is hot. that is all that matters.
i am also in a gender & sexuality class, which thusfar has unceasingly gotten more on my nerves the more i attend class. i am taking it pass/fail, but i still unfortunately feel a need to attend class because my professor is an attendance nazi, and i am afraid of making him/her (it's still kind of unclear) mad. every single person in that class is annoying liberal and feels the need to complain at length about everything in modern society with absolutely no examples to back any of their complaints up and no suggestions for how to improve the problems. this is what i hear whenever i go to class...
"blah blah PATRIARCHY SUCKS blah blah MEN HAVE THE POWER blah blah PATRIARCHY SUCKS blah blah WE ARE OPPRESSED blah blah DID I MENTION PATRIARCHY SUCKS"
i apologize to anyone who is a gender & sexuality major (i know there are a few of you on here). i don't mean to offend anyone, but these classes are definitely not for me. i feel it more and more lately.. as i get older/further into my college career, i've gotten so much more complacent about politics, women's issues, etcetc. i mean, i've never really been well-versed in any of those things, i mostly just spouted off other people's opinions as my own, but at least i cared about them. i just don't give a shit anymore. but enough about that.
work-wise, i am an editorial intern at JANE magazine, which i honestly think i only got because i had good timing and my hours were long and convenient for them. i basically work three full days a week, and i'm justifying the no-pay, no-credit situation with the consolation that hopefully this will look really good on my resume (here's to hopin'). i had a really shitty first week, but it's gotten professively better. i have gotten really good at intern-y stuff like researching on lexis-nexis, copying invoices, sending expensive camofluoge hats back to kitson, and transcribing interviews where i suspect that the people being interviewed made it their perogative to turn their mouths 180 degrees IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION of the microphone. everyone is really nice, though, and for the most part it is very enjoyable, especially since all of the writers that i loved as a reader of the magazine are working in their cubicles all around me. and i'm gonna be on the masthead!!! so look for it on the november (nicole richie) issue. plus the other interns are really cool. and yeah, that's about it.
the sorority is stressing me out for various reasons which i won't get into, mostly because i know most of you won't know what the fuck i'm talking about.
i guess the bottom line is that i'm pretty busy, but for some reason, less stressed out that i was, say, last year. probably because president is more of a representative position as opposed to a task-oriented position like vice president was, and i'm using my time better. unfortunately, i don't get drunk and go out nearly as much as is necessarily for my mental happiness and well-being, but i guess that happens as you get "older." i am currently looking forward to: genevieve visiting, three 311 shows in a month and a half/jenna visiting, thanksgiving break, winter break in california, a winter break trip to illinois, and spring break probably in mexico. is it bad that i'm looking forward to things that are light years away?
anyway, let me know how you all are. who knows when i will update this shiznit again. probably the next time i am the assistant to the editor-in-chief (never).
ADIOS, MOTHER TRUCKERS.