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Thursday, December 02, 2004

About damn time!... 

ok, so i watched the apprentice tonight and have to say it's about damn time they got rid of the bitch. ivana. she's so delusional. she claimed she was wearing more clothing when she stripped off her skirt than the other 2 girls. ok, let me weigh in on this one. both of the girls in question were wearing tank tops and skirts. one girl's skirt was mid-thigh length, but the other's was knee length. extremely modest for sex appeal selling. ivana on the other hand had hitched up a t-shirt to expose her entire midriff below her chest and was already wearing a short miniskirt. so then she took off the skirt to see candy bars and said she was still wearing more than the other girls. and she talked for about 5 minutes on TV (so i'm sure in real life it was even longer) about how the other girls looked like hookers. please, i've worn worse to clubs and had to walk the street to a parking lot at 2 in the morning and have never been mistaken for a hooker. and i sincerely doubt i ever will. so i just find it so funny that this ivana chick is delusional and bitchy and so much else. she's just been a joke this whole time.

i worked 10 hours today. but it was actually ok because i really felt like i was part of the staff. i've done several internships in my time, and it is always a challenge to get respect. especially in ones where you just work there for a couple days a week. people don't see you enough to realize that you're staff, but see you often enough to not stop you and ask why you're there. they think you're weird when you follow up on something with them 5 days later because that's the next work day for you. people forget your name and supervisors can't decide if you're working hard or not because they find it harder to base productivity on a fraction of full time. and so it goes. so i've always worked harder than necessary and heavily networked. i put on a happy face and probably act more cheerful about being at work than i do at times when i'm hanging out with friends. i have to say it works exceedingly well. the downside, though, is that just when we all get attached, i leave. they ask me to stay in touch, but that's always hard. i get another internship, so i'm busy. when i do visit, they often think it's a little strange because i'm voluntarily going to a former workplace and hanging out. plus they are still busy and can only talk for a couple minutes. so anyway.... that was a huge tangent. but yes, i worked serious overtime today. however, i bonded with a couple more coworkers and felt like part of the staff. and i don't think my good deeds went unnoticed.

i always hate the paradox with work. on one hand, if you're out the door the second the clock hits 5, then it looks bad. on the other hand, if you stay extra hours and put in the schmooze time, then you're essentially working in your free time instead of doing something more fun. i hate it. i enjoy my personal life enough to not want to spend it at work, but i want to succeed at the same time.

i'm too damn cold now so i'm going to pump up the heat, find a blanket and some slippers, maybe make some hot chocolate or cider and then cozy up to address the questions. i'm so excited so i want to be nice and comfy for that post. but of course relatively few of you read on fridays. but it's usually the best day for new good posts. oh well. on to warmth!


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