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AUGUST 07 ARCHIVES 10:23 PM 8/9/2007sorry about the lack of updates - it's been a busy past couple of weeks. i was up in sacramento for a few days last week (or was it the week before? can't remember anymore), then thousand oaks, paramount, and city of industry. sunday i flew out to kansas city, MO, right smack into the middle of a horrible heat wave. i never knew there was such a thing as a "heat index factor" until i stepped out of the air-conditioned airport in a pair of jeans and felt the denim superglue itself to my legs. my one small consolation was the fact that i didn't get sent to alabama (like tom) or georgia (like the deputy), where temperatures were in the 3-digits. HA-HA. worked in KC until wednesday afternoon, then caught a flight back, crashed, and spent all day today working in downtown LA. my phone nearly exploded with calls from impatient clients - that'll teach me to leave my return date on my voicemail message. now i'm home and tired beyond belief. in fact, i'm even too tired to be disgruntled with this awful schedule anymore. now THAT is sad. before i go, just a few comments/observations from the past couple of weeks: 1. the KC airport is awesome. avg wait time from curb to gate? two min. 2. KC bbq - so good. totally worth the 500% increase in risk of heart disease. 3. KC traffic is practically nonexistent. too bad everybody there drives at 55mph, max. ask me how many times i almost pulled down my window to drop some ludacris lyrics. 4. my eyeballs hurt. a lot. 5. babies who scream nonstop on airplanes while i'm either trying to work or catch up on sleep should be locked in the bathroom the entire time with their parents. 6. whoever came up with the idea of a drive-through starbucks deserves a nobel prize. 7. jack bought me a GPS system. i'm never going to get lost ever again. 8. that's freaking amazing. 9. on second thought, i bet i'll still find ways to get lost. all right, that's it for now. i need to sleep before my body completely self destructs. have a fabulous weekend, everybody! 12:31 AM 8/20/2007 in a moment of inspiration (or insanity, depending on your point of view), i drove to south coast plaza on last sunday and bought a gorgeous metallic tod's bag. then i logged online at home and discovered that neiman marcus finally had the YSL uptown bag in red patent for pre-sale, so i bought that too. not surprisingly, a representative from my credit card's fraud protection services called me up first thing monday morning, demanding to know what the hell was going on. two words for you, buddy: BUSY SEASON. anyways, i was busy slaving away at work when i got a phone call on my cell from an unfamiliar number. i almost sent it to voicemail, but then changed my mind at the last second: me: this is connie. deputy: hi, it's ******. me: hey. deputy: you still mad at me? me: i'm mad at you? deputy: well, i haven't called or emailed you in the past couple of days. me: uh, i guess i just thought you were busy in georgia. deputy: ah. so are you gonna ask why i haven't called recently? me: (getting nervous) okay, why haven't you called recently? deputy: (long pause) because i'm in iraq. me: WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!? as an FYI, i generally don't like unpleasant surprises. winning the lottery = pleasant surprise. informing me that you're currently somewhere in iraq getting shot at = UNPLEASANT surprise. remember that, guys. though i sort of saw this one coming, i always thought i'd get at least a couple days advance notice. btw, i used to think that most people who joined the military and wanted to fight in wars were the biggest idiots of American society. that crappy misconception was in large part based upon a fifteen minute conversation with a belligerent army recruiter back in high school. i am now very, very glad to have met certain individuals who have challenged and changed some of my ignorant views - you guys have my eternal respect and gratitude. I'M STILL A DEMOCRAT THOUGH. i saw diana krall @ the bowl this weekend - the concert was amazing, aside from the fact that it took me an ungodly amount of time to get into hollywood. i am very, very tempted to go see pink martini as well, but they are only performing the weekend before september 17th. maybe if i finish all my work early, i can go catch a show. haha. yeah right, who am i kidding. remember when cinderella's evil stepmom told her she could go to the ball if she finished all her chores in time? well, EY is my stinkin' evil stepmom. only i have no fairy godmother or talking rats to finish my projects for me. TRAGEDY. so i'm off to do some work now - have a fabulous week, kids. 11:06 PM 8/29/2007 okay, i gotta say that nothing beats working in the office on a beautiful weekend. and by "nothing," i mean "pretty much everything." on saturday afternoon, yumi and i went downstairs to ann taylor to take a 15 minute break and i ended up buying a new suit. somebody seriously needs to confiscate my credit cards during busy season. that, and i really need to stop buying work clothes, because a nice professional wardrobe just gives me extra incentive to spend more time in the office. note to self: start buying cute vacation clothes and new pajamas in mass quantities. went out with lynn, keri and erin sat night for dinner (and dessert, ugh) and finally got to see rocketship park for the first time ever. the sprinklers were on, which made getting to the playground an interesting experience. especially in a pair of $280 stuart weitzman stilettos, which i'm pretty sure weren't made for trekking through wet grass. oh well. i made a geeky crack about how getting the timing right to avoid the arcs of the sprinklers was sorta like that stage in contra with all of the electric beams that shoot from the ceiling and zap you if you walk too fast/slow. that was also the same stage where you had to constantly shoot while you were walking because random spike-studded walls would pop up out of nowhere and impale you. up up down down left right left right B A start! but i digress. so me and lynn climbed up the rocketship slide to check out a fairly amazing view of the south bay at night. it was spectacular (mostly because the darkness covered up most of the gross smog). on the way back to the car, i jokingly offered lynn five bucks to see if she could squeeze into one of those kid-sized swings. i uh, guess she really needed the money:  while i am posting random pictures, check out a cruddy picture of my new YSL bag:  anyways, work is getting even busier now that we're less than three weeks away from the big deadline. i think i'm in denial though, because the panicky adrenaline hasn't hit me yet. um, i'm praying it kicks in soon so i don't end up pulling five consecutive all nighters or murdering someone with my bare hands. my promotion is effective oct 1st and i'm already getting nervous because sooner or later EY is gonna come to its senses and realize that i'm an idiot and fire my ass. hopefully i can collect unemployment for a couple of months before i find a job at the local starbucks. "hi, welcome to starbucks, what can i get started for you? okay, you want whipped cream with that? i'm sorry sir, we're out of blueberry muffins, but we do have cranberry orange scones!" see, i'm a natural. okay, time to work and then sleep so i can get up six hours and do it all over again. update more after 9/15. i mean 9/17. whatever. i don't even know what day it is anymore. have a fabulous week, everybody! | |||||||
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