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Woke up on time
Got ready for work
Felt sick, like REALLY sick
emailed my boss about how I would be in late but I WOULD be in today
went back to bed for 1.5 hours
got up and got to to work late
worked for 7 hours
met Danny at my office at 6:30
went to a BASEBALL game (trust me, this is weird)
enjoyed said baseball game until the 5th inning when hunger overtook both of us
went home, cooked an easy dinner, opened a bottle of wine and watched Arrested Development DVDs until the bottle of wine was almost gone
got ready for bed and wondered why I had felt sick that morning

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After being in grad school for 9 months I find it strange that it was so easy for me to slip back into my 8-5 work schedule. Granted, I have MBA related events almost every weeknight but they are optional and usually pretty fun. I’m home by 8:30 most nights and I end up falling asleep on the couch around 1. Yes, it is simple, boring, and quite refreshing. I guess this kind of normalcy is why I’ve scheduled out every weekend until school starts in September. I can’t handle the normal!

Tomorrow I have a fundraiser/festival planning meeting followed by pub club.

Oh, and the internship is going well: three more weeks of work followed by three weeks of vacation in British Columbia and Texas.

P.S. I also forgot how sitting in one spot all day makes my neck ache. I need to start doing yoga again or something.

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I’m mid-way through my internship and I now have some honest-to-God projects. I was in training and at conferences for the first four weeks. I really enjoyed it but I wasn’t sure how much I was learning. I learned a lot about the company but not so much about the work. This is good. I know they don’t want to overwhelm us at first. I’ve had jobs before though so I’m ready to take charge of something and run with it. I know I’m sounding whiney but I’m not unhappy, just antsy.

Last week, I “shadowed” my coworker at Boeing. I had some small assignments and got a taste of what my long-term assignment would be like. Now I’m at Starbucks HQ until the end of my internship. It is so so sweet. Free coffee. Free GOOD coffee with all the fixins. My coworkers are nice, knowledgeable and they care whether or not I learn something. The only bad thing though is I’m still waiting on my access badge so I don’t have free roaming privileges.

Bonus: I found out that one of the recent 07 MBA grads works there so we’re meeting for lunch on Thursday.

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It reached 100 at Husky Stadium today and a paltry 97 at SeaTac airport. I’m smug and snug in my cool, air-conditioned apartment tonight. Even though we don’t need it 350 days a year, it is totally worth having for those 14 random days of 80+ temps.

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Me: Man, my commute SUCKS! I left an hour early and I was ten minutes late!
Danny: I’m sorry. That does suck.
Me: All I did was stop to get coffee and a salad for lunch on my way to work. It took less than ten minutes.
Danny: And you were ten minutes late. Weird!
Me: Shut up.

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Danny and I returned to Portland yesterday for another relaxing weekend in the company of friends. This completed a very pleasant week. For one, I had a break mid-week for the 4th of July. I didn’t have to fly anywhere for work. I had two different projects over four work days which thrills me. Even if I haven’t figured out what the hell I’m supposed to do, at least there’s variety.

I also had a very MBA week meaning that I saw many people that I hadn’t seen in a month because of work, vacation, or travel. We swapped internship stories and enjoyed just hanging out without any assignments hanging over our heads.

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I survived my recent western regional intern conference in Scottsdale. Don’t get me wrong, I did have fun. I also realized how long it’s been since I was 21 and free beer was the ultimate goal of me and my peers.

I stayed at a really nice resort from Wednesday morning until Friday afternoon. My schedule was booked solid. I did have some free time in the evenings after 7pm, but from 8am until then I was busy with lectures, team-building activities, and wandering from one side of the complex to the other. I did meet some cool people but it took a while to find them. To give you an example of what I was up against, here is a snipped of conversation I overheard while checking in.

Chickie 1: Wow, your bag is full. What did you bring?
Chickie 2: Mostly makeup and hair products.

Each evening, we had a themed dinner. The dress code was casual but we were still at a business event. We even had a dress code. Still, some people thought it was appropriate to wear a tube top to a company event. She looked really really cute but….. a tube top? Hmmm….

After doing my time and getting through the crazy schedule, I was ready to head home. I’d eaten plenty of free food and consumed plenty of free wine but it was enough. I was ready to sleep in my own bed again.

During the closing ceremonies, our host announced the winner of the team competition and guess what? My team won! Out of twenty-nine teams my team had won enough events and shown enough team spirit to take home the grand prize! Yay! I knew we could do it! I was for it all along! *cough cough*

I’m really proud of my team. Despite my constant skepticism, we really pulled it off. The contest. We pulled off the contest, not the tube top. However, I did hear that many a tube top came off after 10pm when the bar closed. I was asleep and in bed like the old lady that I am. After this weekend I can honestly say that thirty is not looking so bad.

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