Tuesday, July 20, 2004 :::
ok. so at work ive been drinking tea because i don't like coffee and the only tea they have that's caffinated is brisk, which basically sucks. i blame bella for getting me on tea. anyways, so it was my mission tonight to go find a grocery store to get some nice earl grey tea.
on my way out i asked the girl at the front desk of the closest supermarket. she sent me to superwalmart. it had a super market and i got a nice variety pack of english teas. BUT superwalmart?! what a place.... (billy, i'm sorry).
for those that don't know, superwalmart has a supermarket, a drug store, regular walmart stuff, garden, tools, little side stores (pharmacy, candy shop, picture studio), blah blah blah...
it was the busiest place for miles around (really, it is). the parking lot was huge (a la disneyland). i became very sad as i walked from the car to the store. the store on the inside is as huge as costco but nothing is stacked up, so you can see practically to brazil. the lights are too bright. the elevator music wanted me to poke sharp objects into my ears. the people shopping there were very drone-like. it seemed like they were doing their best to hurry the heck out of there fearing that they would be turned into walmart denizens. sadly, they already had been. they had no vigor, no passion, no love for humanity... superwalmart and all that it represents vacuumed up these peoples' identies. and it was trying to get mine.
i got the hell out of there!
time in the store: 10 minutes.
money spent: $2.17
life sucked away: 27 grams.
recovery time: TBD.
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6:02 PM:::
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Monday, July 19, 2004 :::
wrote this a few days ago when i didn't have access to the internet:
current location: 35000 feet somewher over colorado/nevada on the way to san jose from fl with a connecting flight in houstin.
i'm going home for the weekend for RPDub (short for RPW, which equals RYLA Packed Weekend). Flying home just for the big beach reunion that's on saturday? yes and no. (mostly yes). i won those tickets to see john mayer and maroon 5 in irvine, but i knew id be in FL and i really wanted to go. however, i had a strong feeling that the beach reunion would be this same weekend, so i bought a ticket home and figured i could use it for both. as it turned out, it would've been unfeasible to go to the concert, and the reunion means more to me anyhoo.
so ive begun my new job! holy crap,this company is so awesome. not because their softwre product is so great that it actually works wonderfully. not just because they're good to work for. not because my job is an extremely great opportunity. but all of those things together.
the corporate world is very different from what i'm use to. there's a language to it - it's english, but not the same english. there are acronyms up to wazoo (ROI, TCO, SSL, VPN,...). there are new verbs like "leverage" (may i leverage your skills to help me close this deal?) new abreviations and corporte lingo like "C-Level Executive" (C=Chief. CEO, CFO, CIO,...) There's citri-speak: MSAM, whiteboard presenation, access strategy, ...) to the uninitiated, it's all greek. i'm still learning the greek, but getting it down.
i dunno, i'm just really excited about this whole new thing. i'll be traveling (all paid for - expense report will allow me up to $45 for dinner alone!). from what ive seen of the product, it's awesome! they're an up and coming business with seemingly smart leadership.
ok, i'm gonna stop there. i think i was just kinda rambling along.
The day immediately following RYLAI had my Ambassadorial Scholarship interview. The few days before I was feeling sick, and by this time, I was sick. (it ended up being strep throat). I didn’t have time to really prepare and think about what they would ask me, but I did my best. Being sick didn’t help either. But it went okay. I have since found out that I didn’t get it. Recently (a few months) I’ve been thinking that maybe grad school wasn’t the right thing for me, and that I wanted the scholarship just to visit another country. When I left the interview I figured I didn’t get it and was relieved that I wouldn’t have to make a tough decision. So when I found out for sure, I was relieved yet bummed that I didn’t get something that I strived for. I got over it fairly quick and started thinking what I could do next in the world of Rotary.
I’ve thought about becoming a Rotarian, but I’m not sure how feasible that will be. As a consultant, I’ll be traveling mon-thurs every week. I checked into clubs that meet Friday mornings and found a few that could work. Plus I'm not sure if there's an age requirement.nnI’ve also thought about helping to work on making Rotaract stronger in the district, which is rather lacking at the moment. i'm fairly unsure at the moment. I’ll most likely wait until I’ve been working for a few months to decide where I want to go from here.
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6:41 AM:::
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