First of all, how college retreat-y does "takeaways" sound?
Anyway, here is a list of things I took away from my weekend at BC...
I can no longer keep up with college students. They stay up way past my regular bedtime and operate on not enough sleep. I've seemed to have forgotten that already. And I should really stay off campus from now on.
Judy is the new me and will continue to cry when she's drunk.
It doesn't matter who's birthday is being celebrated - more than one person will always get caked...even if they no longer go to BC.
Either "drama" follows me around or my presence creates it. You choose.
I can only process and remember so many things in a 48 hour timespan. It kinda makes me think I should have tried to study and not cram the last four years.
Some balloons are blown sideways...and you shouldn't doubt Melissa. But if you do - it's funnier!
Boobs make you look older and not underdeveloped.
Eyebrows can apparently make you look younger or older or bitchy or personable.
I really probably do come off as a bitch when people first meet me.
If I act tired and complain about being old enough, I can be spoon fed food :P
I love all my friends and miss you!
Shoutout to AJ for commenting on almost all of my posts!
So I do the accounts payable for the company I'm working for right now. That basically means that I put in the bills and pay people. Yesterday, my boss handed me three invoices from my recruiter. Each invoice was a little over $900. I only get paid a little over $450 a week. That means my effing recruiter gets 50% of what the company pays for me. I think that is ridiculous! I can understand my first paycheck because they did find me the position, but damn - 50% each week! They don't even do anything and I don't even talk to them anymore.
This leads me to my point - everyone should get into the recruiting business. They are making a killing - especially in the current state of our economy. Think about it - a lot of companies have hiring freezes so they can't hire people full-time. But they might still need more people to do work so they hire temps. From their standpoint, temps are gold for them. They cost less because they don't have to pay for insurance. They can fire them anytime they want without any real cause. They can hire them if they actually do like them. Ergo, recruiting firms are probably seeing a huge spike in their generated income.
Again - everyone should get into recruiting. As for me, I like accounting and will stick with it. So I'm just hoping that all of you follow my advice and then saturate the market. Then I won't be "paying" and suffering financially as much. Thanks.
Uh - this week's episode of Glee ("Vitamin D") was hilarious! What's not to love about drugged up nerds singing mashed-up songs? And even more awesome one-liners. Best line was definitely from Artie: "We're planning on smacking them down like the hand of God." AWESOME! Although, Rachel's intro to the girls' routine gives it some competition - haha! I love this show!
So, last night's episode, all about boys versus girls. Here are the two routines but following it is my take on...let's go with, who I thought was better...
For me, I think the boys take the cake. I almost can't help it. There are more hot "football players" than "glee" boys. "It's My Life/Confessions" was just a better mashup too. It flowed better and was more energetic. Boys can sing the rock songs but with girls, you always have to go for the crazy power ballads. I gotta give it to Lea Michele again - ridiculous last note in "Halo/Walking on Sunshine." And you always have to wonder with the girls - they have the Cheerios there who are supposed to be doing some hardcore sabotaging. Although it seems that Quinn has crossed over. By the way, did you notice Chris Colfer's face during the entire boys' routine? It made me laugh so much. At the end of the day though, both routines had me rolling in laughter. They were so hyped up it was crazy!
I guess I can briefly discuss the non-musical parts of the show..........
HAHA! Just kidding! It was great seeing Su there more. Her whole journal writing was pretty funny. But I can't believe that Emma said yes to Ken! Like wth?! I know that Mr. Shue is married and all, but I feel so bad for him. His wife is so evil. And Quinn agreed to her plan but Teri couldn't even pay for all the medical expenses and stuff?! It's like an adoption. And it's being done to cover up her secret. She needs to pay to continue her farce! And Rachel was so nice to Quinn. I will continue to stick up for Rachel and give her props. She's got a pretty big heart and really supportive. I'd like to be her friend ;)
iTunes songs this week: "It's My Life/Confessions," "Halo/Walking on Sunshine," "Keep Holding On," "No Air." Can't wait to see the other songs in an episode!
Everyday I feel older and older...here's why (aka an update on my life):
I finally got rejected by Samsung. That took them more than a month to tell me what I pretty much already knew. But damn, they were so annoying not answering any of my e-mails. So unprofessional. That same day though I got my Notice to Schedule for the NY CPA exam. The last date I could take the two tests I registered for (BEC and FAR) was March 29th. Of course there are no tests available in March so I had to go for February so I could put off taking it the longest. The dumbass that I am scheduled one test for the weekend before my birthday and the other the weekend after my birthday. None the weekend of at least. So I might kill myself around that time. We will see. Scheduling it then doesn't really matter all that much I guess because (1) I don't like celebrating my birthday and (2) there won't be very many people to celebrate it with anyway.
I'm really sleepy and I blame "G. Tao." Keeping me up past my bedtime of 10:30pm by video chatting me. Gah! Yes, that's about what time I go to sleep. My routine is so...routine-y. I get up at 7am. I brush my teeth (while making my bed) and wash my face. I get dressed and ready for work. I go downstairs and make coffee. I leave for work by 7:50am. I'm at work doing "work" but really talking to Mark on gchat. I leave around 5:30pm. I get home and change out of work clothes and turn on my laptop. I eat dinner with my parents. I take a shower. I watch TV or go online. I make a lunch and iron my clothes for the next day. I dry and straighten my hair. I fall asleep listening to music. That's pretty damn mundane...
Last night, I went to a BC Alumni event in NYC. It was at Point Break (12 W. 45th St.). I was originally supposed to meet up with D-Block but they all backed out for various reasons. Luckily, I saw my friend Laura was on the attendees list and actually saw her right as I got there. We thought all the cocktails would be free but we only got one free one and then it was $4 mixed drinks after that. It's so weird. Laura was with all her other friends from PwC and what not. We just kept talking accounting. Is that really all conversations are post-grad: profession? I saw Simi for a bit. Then I saw Genevieve - I haven't seen her since I was a freshman in PSBC! Spent the rest of my night catching up with her. There was an interesting period where we were talking to grads from '83. It was really just awkward. Cause those guys were tipsy and wanted to "network." The man I was talking to...I'll call him "B"...kept sort of hitting on the waitress and all this other stuff. And I can't be completely sure if this was a line, but he said to me "I like your cashmere sweater" and grazed my arm. Blech! I wanna vomit now. So for all you college guys out there - those are the kinds of lines you'll be delivering at a bar once you graduate. Anyway, I was talking to the owner of the bar and he was a grad of '83, I think, too. He gave me a free drink which was cool. Anyway, once Genevieve and I got through those conversations we just talked and I met one of her friends. I can at least say that the older alumni are "older" than I - if that makes sense. For the 3/4 of a drink she had, I had 3 full ones. And I didn't get drunk! Take that! Although, I'm still aware that I don't drink and handle like I used too...
So, thanks to those that donated to help the Philippines. I sent my money through Ben and he was able to buy a lot of amenities for the people. And here's another update on things from him:
"We're expecting a supertyphoon on Friday and Saturday. That's not a description - that's a classification. This will have winds up to 240kph. We will need more donations in the upcoming weeks. If you have any friends who want to donate, please encourage them to do so."
So do what you can, everyone! Oh and it's Breast Cancer Awareness Month. There's another noble cause to support! And Filipino American Heritage Month (FAHM) - damn! So many things! Celebrate and love! Thanks!
It near broke my heart right at the beginning of the episode ("The Rhodes Not Taken") when i saw Quinn singing Rachel's part in "Don't Stop Believin'." And my commiseration for Rachel didn't stop there - it just continued and escalated throughout the rest of the episode. To revert back to my comments on last week's episode - I think I'm definitely gonna side with Rachel now. I really think that I'm like her character. Interpret that as you'd like. It was horrible how Finn was basically using her crush on him against her for his own purposes. Noble goal; not so noble methods. And then April Rhodes, Mr. Schue, and Sandy putting her down. I wish when Rachel came back at the end that the glee club was more enthusiastic about it. I can't believe how vigilant Mr. Schue was being with the whole Rachel and glee club thing.
Can I just also comment - I am slightly obsessed with the background dancers in Glee. There's that no-named blonde cheerleader. She's pretty good. And then the Asian guy from Step Up 2. And when Vocal Adrenaline is there, Lauren Gottlieb from SYTYCD, Season 3 is dancing. Anyway...
Let's get down to the knitty gritty - Kristin Chenoweth! I love her! She is so funny. Of course her character and premise was a bit odd but still! There was so much singing and music in this episode. She had two full songs but I would've loved to see the extended version of "Alone" on screen. By the way, the three songs she sings are the songs that came out on iTunes this week. Anyway, I wish Pushing Daisies was still on. Or that I could've seen her as Glinda on Wicked. I was so happy when she won an Emmy a couple of Sundays ago. Oh Cheno...
Now that that's done, I think we can all agree that at the end of the day, we always want Rachel there and Lea Michele singing a whole lot. With that, here's my song of the week:
