The Real World

It's strange that in the Real World, one never has time to do all the little mundane things that makes life real. Like laundry. Cleaning, doing the dishes, cutting nails (although that one is the fault of TSA and airport rules)...sigh, I can now understand the allure of one day dry cleaning and laundry services.

I shall resist however and lug my laundry the 2 1/2 block to my 24 hour laundromat. Actually there is one 1 1/2 blocks. Now that I'm in the real world, I may need that extra 60 seconds of my life.

Another thing: I would never have guessed that Internet would fall to the sidelines, but The Job has taken its place in my heart. No more frivolous webs earches. Err I suppose I'm still on gmail as much as I can though. Although *GASP* I don't actually respond to emails in a timely manner. That means that I don't instantly respond to emails anymore. And then things pile up and get lost in the bottomless inbox of doom. So don't be offended. You're not special, meaning that you're not especially being ignored. I'm ignoring everyone at the same level.

Hmm I just realized that I'm using my work computer to write this, and thus, my work IT department is probably reading my every word, most likely before I even write it down. Creepily brilliant those IT people. They can rebuild your computer in a jiffy if ever coffee is spilled on the keyboard (I'm not talking about myself, since I don't really drink coffee now do I). But what can one do but use the business computer for personal use, when one is traveling and traveling and traveling. Answer: eeePC. SIGH. I will get one, some day. Actually I just learned that some have hard drives now and are still about 2.5 pounds. I wonder how hot they get. I heard that they still remain relatively cool, since it's a different kind of hard drive blah blah blah. Who knows though.

Gotta say, I'm happy to have a computer that still has juice after an hour. A computer that doesn't go crazy when I try to use the touch pad. A computer with a video camera (so let's video chat one day, even though it's super awkward). However, you'd think that a Data Analyst would at least get a top refurbished computer that doesn't have crazy quirks to it. Imagine lossing a project worth of data or worse! I guess that's why I'm supposed to back up everything!

Speaking of work, why is work so great? Even with the long hours, the people are great, and the work is proving to be interesting, even though perhaps training is going way to quick to soak up everything. And the amount of PowerPoint presentations. WOW. One up/down is all the going out to eat. If nothing else, at least I have the opportunity to eat at a few Chicago restaurants (near The Loop) in not actually seeing Chicago (especially in the daylight).

At least the whole bedbug scare was apparently a false alarm (mosquitos on the windowsill of a room on the 10th floor). And I would have thought that if anything that would have occurred in some sketchy hostel this summer.

Anyway, I am tiiiirreeedddd and sometime tomorrow I need to practice for a presentation that my group and I are doing in front of management. These people must be impressed, so we're going to do our best to give them what they want, seeing as they are investing a lot of time and money training us newbies for this job!

I'll be in new your on the 11th, and then one more week in Chicago after that weekend...then it's the Unknown. I wish I knew where I'm going to be placed. Send me overseas I say!!

Oh so on the homefront, I have a new roommate. She's Japanese. So perhaps in another year I'll have all Japanese roommates again!! HAHAHAHA

Anyway, time for bed. Tomorrow I'm back to Chicago

Oh, I'm in Sunbury, Ohio with Brandie at the moment!