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Sunday November 9, 2008 ~ LOUNGING, HARTFORD, AND RELAXING
This morning was a little bit heavenly. Ana woke up early to write some of her novel, but the rest of us slept until my mother came down around 10 and told us that it was a beautiful day and that we should be out doing things. That meant that we were up, so we might as well go out and enjoy the day. We argued about how the best way to spend the day was for a while, which reminded me so much of Colgate. After getting ready to be seen in public, we headed to the Blue Colony diner. We were pretty lucky because we didn’t have to wait for a table, so that was nice. I was a little under-whelmed at the quality of the food we got, but all in all it was pretty good. Our waitress was not very polite, which gave us something to talk about haha. I took lots of pictures at breakfast (keeping the tradition alive), and we had a nice wake-up session. After that, it was back to the house to fill Ana’s tire with air, to pack up the cars, and to head out again to the Hartford mall. I chose this mall because I don’t usually go there often and because it was 90 minutes in the direction that Jandreau and Ana needed to go, so it was a pretty nice location. Shannon and I drove together, and before I knew it, we were there. I joked about seeing Nabil at Hollister, so they made me go in and look for him. He wasn’t there though, which as much as it made me sad, it was a relief too because I didn’t want to just bust in and see him for 2 seconds while he’s working and then leave knowing he was there, you know? The mall was really nice. Ana was definitely the winner, buying a purse and a ton of MAC makeup, but I got a NICE Buffalo sweater at Macy’s. It was sort of a blast from the past chilling out with my bestest-buds in a huge mall for an afternoon. It didn’t make me miss carousel, but it made me nostalgic for the “old days” haha. Around 4, after walking the mall twice, a makeover, and lunch, it was time to part. Jandreau was the first to leave citing the fact that he doesn’t “sit around all day and think about how he misses us”. He’s too funny. Ana, Shannon, and I stood in the parking lot for about another 15 minutes chatting and ruing the eventual goodbyes. They, however, happened and we were on our way home. When I got to the house, my grandparents were there, and the salmon was just about done. We had a nice dinner with my grandparents, whom had to run rather quickly because they had another party to go to! Shannon and I loaded the car and then looked at my Savannah albums until 6:50. When we got to the train station, we tangoed on the platform until the train came. She hopped on, and I was off. When I got home, I got my life back in order, caught up on some things that needed to be done, and was sad that my weekend was already over. I have a LOT of great pictures though!
Thursday November 13, 2008 ~ KEEPING BUSY, THEN A CALL WITH JAPAN
Today, I was again busy for the majority of the day! I am getting good at this “work” thing. Now, I only wish that I actually had some things to stress out about lol. I’m only kidding. As much as I say that I liked being stressed out, I was only ever stressed out at things that I knew I could handle, you know what I mean? The “stress” was whether I’d get an A or an A-; I know that now, if I started getting stressed, it would be about serious things such as money or spending or things like that. I’d rather stay on easy street, but I think it would be nice to have a little bit more responsibility at work. For instance, today, I had a conference call with one of the marketing analysts in Japan who’s working on a project called Black Foil which is used in capacitors. She called me at 7 at my house and we chatted for about 30 mins. It was a good call, and I learned a lot about the project, but she asked me to analyze the US market for end-users. I asked when she wanted the info, and she said that it would be great if I could get it to her by mid-December. I said that would be fine, and we parted ways. To be completely honest, I could get her that report Monday morning. If I put my mind to it Friday, I could have it done no problem. The fact that there is so much disconnect in corporate America between what people expect and what I can actually do is amazing. I will get it to her early December and still “blow her mind”. It’s just weird to me. If a professor told me to get something to them by mid-December and that if I needed more time they would understand, it would have been nothing short of an honors thesis, and bear in mind that I wrote two at the same time. I just feel like I’m drowning here haha (in the opposite way the expression is normally used). I think that all of this amounts in me not taking my job seriously. As much as I love the company and as much as I love the people that I work with and as much as I am sure that there is potential in the company, I have to wonder sometimes if there is a job out there that would let me hit the ground running rather than let me just kind of amble through the fields picking wildflowers.