weekly dose
i've been chugging along trying to get things done left and right. i've made a dent, to say the least...and despite being a bit overwhelmed i still managed to run about 4-5 times last week. once or twice with david, who, does not go easy on me and i always end up coming home completely exhausted!
i finished school around noon on friday and had a coffee with miruna just to catch up on life etc. i then made the most unnecessary trip to bon marche. by unnecessary i mean, it's abosolutely sure then when i pass through those doors, about 2 hours later my bank account is given a financial enema. it's that bad..
i actually thought i would make a clean break until..the shoe section. i decided that i needed a pair of black patent shoes (despite already owning a pair of awesome patent pumps from nine west..yes..i needed another pair). when i found cute ones for a reasonable price, i asked to try them on. and that's when it happened...while waiting for the lovely salesman to bring out the shoes that i thought were cute and reasonable, i saw another pair, THE pair, that was fucking awesome and totally unreasonable. when i tried on the first pair was surprised how cute and comfy they were, but i wasn't sold. "just for fun" i told myself, i'd try on the other ones. just to see. i mean, i didn't expect the huge chunky heel to actually be managable to walk in, but it was. and i surely didn't expect them to be comfy..but they were. and of course i was wearing a dress that happened to go perfectly with them. after some hestitation, mental calculations of how much non-spending i'd have to do for the next month to make up for such a purchase, and chatting it up with the sales dude...i decided to get them. aka, my new loves: oh yea, and then to top it off i had to buy the special cleaner...and a dress that went well with it. did i mention that the day before i bought 2 YSL belts in a depot-vente/consignment shop, a balenciaga wool dress that i wont' even be able to wear til' next season, kheil's tinted lip bomb (ok cheap but still i didn't need this!), and another pair of fake eyeglasses (which i'm wearing now and are sooo going to be the shit next year, i have this feeling that vintage style, black rim glasses will be IT). anyway, basically, i need to stoppppp.
i spend the week end at david's getting my sculpture and web project done. sunday we went rowing in bois de boulogne (i think it was there..i just sit back and let him take me wherever he wants..) which was lots of fun. the evening we went to his parents to eat.
so finally i got sort of a response/more news about this job offer here at Y&R. it turns out that they don't have the budget to hire me to work full time on what i'm doing now since it's a new project..BUTTTT..and this is a big gadunkgadunkdunk...there is an opening on the colgate account for a junior executive position in integrated marketing communication (which is what i'm doing my thesis and webpage on and totally interesting). i was supposed to talk to this woman about it today but she's like a power lady and never has time so i don't know what that will happen. it was supposed to be to discuss salary...or rather the lack of it. i asked chris, my prof's son, who works on the account and he totally agreed it was a fantastic opportunity since colgate is probably the biggest and most important (not to mention international) account we have here. i could travel, even relocate, and work up the latter. so yeahhhh i'm pretty excited. nothing is finalized but i'm hoping the ball will get rolling asap, although i do want some vacation time after graduation. did i mention i'll have 5 weeks vacation in france? i've gotten used to the idea that i'll stay here and work. i do like paris. i have a life here. i have friends..and an amazing boyfriend (more on him in a sec), and why not?? i'm in the middle of europe, i speak the language, and i like being an 'etranger' in france..it gives me an edge, a certain je ne sais quoi, that if i returned to new york would totally disappear under my nose. i have my whole life to make money and i think that at 22, being partially if not wholly financially independant is a fucking feat. i say 'partially' cause my parents have agreed to help me out for a while in case my paychecks don't pay the bills. i'm sure they will pay the bills..just not the excess amounts of shoes and dresses that i can't seem to stop buying.
i finished school around noon on friday and had a coffee with miruna just to catch up on life etc. i then made the most unnecessary trip to bon marche. by unnecessary i mean, it's abosolutely sure then when i pass through those doors, about 2 hours later my bank account is given a financial enema. it's that bad..
i actually thought i would make a clean break until..the shoe section. i decided that i needed a pair of black patent shoes (despite already owning a pair of awesome patent pumps from nine west..yes..i needed another pair). when i found cute ones for a reasonable price, i asked to try them on. and that's when it happened...while waiting for the lovely salesman to bring out the shoes that i thought were cute and reasonable, i saw another pair, THE pair, that was fucking awesome and totally unreasonable. when i tried on the first pair was surprised how cute and comfy they were, but i wasn't sold. "just for fun" i told myself, i'd try on the other ones. just to see. i mean, i didn't expect the huge chunky heel to actually be managable to walk in, but it was. and i surely didn't expect them to be comfy..but they were. and of course i was wearing a dress that happened to go perfectly with them. after some hestitation, mental calculations of how much non-spending i'd have to do for the next month to make up for such a purchase, and chatting it up with the sales dude...i decided to get them. aka, my new loves: oh yea, and then to top it off i had to buy the special cleaner...and a dress that went well with it. did i mention that the day before i bought 2 YSL belts in a depot-vente/consignment shop, a balenciaga wool dress that i wont' even be able to wear til' next season, kheil's tinted lip bomb (ok cheap but still i didn't need this!), and another pair of fake eyeglasses (which i'm wearing now and are sooo going to be the shit next year, i have this feeling that vintage style, black rim glasses will be IT). anyway, basically, i need to stoppppp.
i spend the week end at david's getting my sculpture and web project done. sunday we went rowing in bois de boulogne (i think it was there..i just sit back and let him take me wherever he wants..) which was lots of fun. the evening we went to his parents to eat.
so finally i got sort of a response/more news about this job offer here at Y&R. it turns out that they don't have the budget to hire me to work full time on what i'm doing now since it's a new project..BUTTTT..and this is a big gadunkgadunkdunk...there is an opening on the colgate account for a junior executive position in integrated marketing communication (which is what i'm doing my thesis and webpage on and totally interesting). i was supposed to talk to this woman about it today but she's like a power lady and never has time so i don't know what that will happen. it was supposed to be to discuss salary...or rather the lack of it. i asked chris, my prof's son, who works on the account and he totally agreed it was a fantastic opportunity since colgate is probably the biggest and most important (not to mention international) account we have here. i could travel, even relocate, and work up the latter. so yeahhhh i'm pretty excited. nothing is finalized but i'm hoping the ball will get rolling asap, although i do want some vacation time after graduation. did i mention i'll have 5 weeks vacation in france? i've gotten used to the idea that i'll stay here and work. i do like paris. i have a life here. i have friends..and an amazing boyfriend (more on him in a sec), and why not?? i'm in the middle of europe, i speak the language, and i like being an 'etranger' in france..it gives me an edge, a certain je ne sais quoi, that if i returned to new york would totally disappear under my nose. i have my whole life to make money and i think that at 22, being partially if not wholly financially independant is a fucking feat. i say 'partially' cause my parents have agreed to help me out for a while in case my paychecks don't pay the bills. i'm sure they will pay the bills..just not the excess amounts of shoes and dresses that i can't seem to stop buying.