Making moves Tuesday, Apr 8 2008

Busy week this week. I have two interviews! So happy about that. The more I sit here the more I realize it is beyond time to move on.

Interviews are always nervewracking no matter how many you go on. It’s hard to keep your cool and remain confident when you have someone asking you 8,000 questions, in a small room, that is usually either too hot or too cold. I always try to review the questions I’m going to ask before I go in there so they don’t fly out of my head, making me sound unintelligent. I also try to write down the names and numbers of my references (if I don’t have them memorized) and have them in an easy to grab place in case I need them. Other than that I just try to remember to smile a lot so that who ever is interviewing me knows that I’m a happy person who will work hard.

Studying for the GRE is going…..slowly. Apparently, all math that I learned in high school and college has totally left me. Trying to re-learn square roots, integers and how to find the radius of a circle does not make for a fun weekend. The end of may can not get here soon enough. As a deterrant to studying, I’ve been shopping. J.Crew has some adorable summer stuff and some awesome sales. (www.jcrew.com) Definetly worth checking out. Word of the day: PENURY-extreme poverty or economic hardship (i.e. me if  I don’t get s

a new job soon)

Obsession of the week: Frozen grapes. They’re so good and extremely refreshing. Plus they’re a super low calorie snack that’s perfect for summer!

 

 

 

 

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Do something good! Wednesday, Mar 19 2008

Check this out it’s a worthwhile cause and can actually help make you smarter….http://www.freerice.com

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Sometimes you can’t make it on your own Friday, Mar 14 2008

So happy that NYC is slowly getting warmer It seems that people are starting to come out of their winter hibernation now that the days are longer and the city is starting to wake up.

I’ve come to realize that people think they can handle a lot more than they actually can. I’ll never understand why some people keep things bottled up. This typically ends with an outburst, hurt feelings or an argument. Not the way to go in my opinions. I’ve always been a firm believer that if something is bothering you, it needs to be talked about. Apparently, not many other people feel that way. This week has been an eye opener for me. I have always been a very positive, upbeat person (according to my boyfriend, annoyingly so at times). Granted, I may seem to live in a bubble, I’m not as naive as I come off. It’s beginning to annoy me that people don’t see that. I don’t want to turn into some negative, pessimistic person just so I’m taken seriously. I don’t think that you have to have all of these terrible life experiences to give good advice or to be validated. This week has been a series of situations where people I love are finding themselves caught in between a rock and a hard place. I’ve delt with everything from job loss,divorce and family issues to deleting a very recent ex’s phone number from a cell phone, only after a call was placed. While none of these scenarios have directly effected my life, they’ve effected my friends and family. I almost feel like I wish we were all six again so that we could fight over who got to ride the power wheels first or when the most important thing in the world was getting a new my little pony or pound puppy….

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Hoboken St. Patricks Day Monday, Mar 3 2008

I have a serious love hate relationship with Hoboken St. Patricks Day. It has all of the potential to be a really fun and happy day but it never seems to turn out that way. This year was no exception. The day was filled with people drinking too much, running around and cold weather.

My girlfriends (Kim, Theresa and Lindsay) and I usually start the weekend at our friend Theresa’s apartment. We typically do pizza, wine and a movie which is always great. There truly is nothing like getting together with friends and just hanging out. Saturday morning always starts out early. People tend to get in line for the bars at 8 am. That is not my scene at all. They don’t open until 11. I don’t understand why someone would want to go out there and freeze for three hours. I’ve only done it once and it’s not something that I ever really want to do again. House parties are the way to go. We did go to one bar, the Nags Head, which didn’t really have a line at all. We waited like 10 minutes for the bar to open which wasn’t bad. It was small and could only hold 60 people although I don’t think they were even letting that many in. The police department and the fire department both came in to make sure things were going well and that the bar wasn’t over capacity. That was interesting. Each year they get more and more strict. It was nice because the majority of the people in the bar were people we knew so it was almost like having a private party. I wasn’t drinking that much because I was going to Chris’s later that night (he decided, wisely, not to partake in this years festivities and to go skiing instead). It was very interesting to watch everyone throughout the day.  After the bar we went to some house parties and of course ran into a bunch of people we knew from college and had the “Hi! How are you? What are you doing now? Where are you living? It was great to see you!” conversation that I love. Then we obviously dealt with the relationship drama that always seems to come up for one of the four of us on Hoboken St. Patricks Day. It’s inevitable and happens every year. I feel like it escalated this year for some reason. Having had conversations about it yesterday with Kim and Theresa, I think that we are all beginning to put this outside pressure on ourselves because of the various things going on in our lives. One of us is newly single, another is having communication problems in her relationship and the other is working through issues with herself. Lindsay is getting married and is therefore out of the equation. To add to it all we found out that our other roomate from college, who got married last July, is 5 months pregnant. Holy Smokes…..

By the time I left Hoboken, I was exhausted and ready to see Chris and have a normal ending to my chaotic day!

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Sometimes things just work themselves out Monday, Feb 25 2008

Monday, Monday…..

So sad this weekend is over. It was one of those weekends where the planets must have been lined up perfectly or something. Everything seemed to go just right. We got a ton of snow on Friday but I had taken the day off for a Dr’s appointment so it didn’t really effect me which was really nice. Chris and I went skiing on Saturday. All of the fresh snow was amazing and we really enjoyed our time together, just the two of us (it was very much needed). He taught me some tricks to make me a better skier and I think I really got the hang of it. I can’t wait to go again. Later that night we went to a friends 25th birthday party in Hoboken. Such a great time. I told everyone about my decision to go to grad school and they seemed geniunely happy for me which made me feel great. It just reassured me in my decision and helped to squash any doubts I might have been having. Yesterday was spent relaxing with Chris which I love. It’s a refreshing way to go into Monday. I truely feel like I’m on the brink of this potentially great life and I just need to take the swan dive and go for it. Fingers crossed that I work up the nerve and jump right in…..

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Getting to know me Thursday, Feb 21 2008

Basically, I started this blog as a way to write about things that happen in my life that I feel like other people can relate to. I’m a 24 year old New York girl who is trying to get it all together. I’m beginning to think that if you looked up the term “quarter life crisis” you might see my face. Right now I am stuck at a crossroads, thinking about going back to school and trying to find a job that 1. I love and feel passionately about and 2. actually pays well. Not all that easy. I’m trying to move out of my parents house as well but clearly that involves an increase in my paycheck. They’re great but it is time to go out into the world and be a big girl….

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