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JULY '10 ARCHIVES 11:00 PM 7/11/2010soooo, i'm still on the west coast. i'm supposed to report for work in DC in exactly a week from tomorrow but i'm not quite ready to move yet. work in LA keeps going and going and going and you would not believe the amount of packing i still have to do. in retrospect, trying to get out of LA by june 30th was a bit overly optimistic. at this rate i'll be lucky to make it to DC by next year. in the meantime, i've been trying to say goodbye properly to everybody but so far i'm not doing such a hot job. sorry. i'm lame. how about you guys just come visit me sometime next month instead? anyways, the movers are coming on friday to load all my crap (including the BMW) into a truck, and then i fly out saturday morning. i'm spending three weeks in corporate housing because my apartment won't be ready until august 8th. btw, 3 weeks of corporate housing is costing EY $3,900. INSANE. for a second i thought i had to pay for it out of pocket and i was seriously contemplating getting a second job on the weekend as a professional escort. then i remembered that being an escort entails more than just accompanying somebody around in public (really, the name is SO misleading) so i reconsidered. in any case, EY is paying for my temporary housing, and then i get to start paying $2,080 a month when i finally move into my real apartment. good thing i got a huge pay raise. oh wait, i didn't. i am also looking forward to unpacking everything in 100 degree heat. by myself. during the worst of busy season. seriously, the next time i decide to move across the country, somebody needs to kick me in the ass. i had lunch with johnny a few weeks ago and he was like, "okay, let me get this straight. you're moving to DC to take on a tougher job for no increase in pay and insanely high rent?" um...yes. "and did you even model out your cash flows for the next two years?" umm...no. "and do you know anybody out there?" well, sorta.... okay not really. "i see. and all along i thought i was the dumb one." ARGHH. on the bright side, i feel like this will be an eye opening experience. i am two seconds away from peeing in my pants because i'm so intimidated but i'm sure one day i will look back and be grateful that i made this move. OR perhaps i'll be unemployed, broke and bitter once EY figures out that i am ridiculously underqualified for this position. uh, let's hope it's not the latter. haha. i am looking forward to the change, though. it'll be good to be away from LA for a little bit. so which awesome friend wants to fly out and help me move in early august?! i have no cash but can pay you in shoes/bags/clothes. i am also willing to give up my new rolling pin that my friends coerced me into buying because i am such a master baker. master BAKER. I SAID BAKER, you perverts. okay, gotta get back to working and cleaning. here's a shot i took of some of my shoes today. i'm trying to put them back in their respective homes for the move but i lost half of the bags they came in so the rest are going into a plastic trash bag. ghetto. you never see anybody from sex and the city having to do that.  7:13 PM 7/18/2010 day 1 of life in DC. or rather, arlington, VA. it is disgustingly hot and sticky. here's the current temperature (it's 7pm now), courtesy of weather.com:  i think it's kind of lame that the best description weather.com could come up with is "hot." you know what words i would use to describe this climate? maybe something along the lines of "UNGODLY HEAT & STICKINESS - WHY ARE YOU LIVING HERE AGAIN?" or perhaps "DON'T EVEN BOTHER WITH DEODORANT, IT'S USELESS IN THIS WEATHER." or "IT'S SO HOT I THINK THE SWEAT POURING DOWN MY FACE IS ACTUALLY BOILING." you get the point. needless to say, i miss LA already. anyway, the movers came friday to pack up everything. they were super efficient and got everything loaded onto the truck in about 3 hours. i won't see any of it until early august, when i move into my second temporary residence (don't ask). my car will be delivered earlier, which is awesome because i currently have about 10 pairs of shoes stashed in my trunk as well as 850 rounds of 9mm ammo. why, you ask? because the moving company technically won't transport ammo and there was no way i was going to lug it all with me on the plane, so me and lynn hid the boxes in a huge duffel bag underneath my jimmy choos. so clever. of course it won't be so clever if somebody opens up my trunk and finds both the shoes and the ammo and steals it all. that would be quite sad. i spent most of today just walking around the neighborhood and finding the metro stations. aside from the horrible weather, it's actually a really nice area. the national mall and museums are just a few metro stops away, as is the pentagon city mall, which i heard is KILLER. not that i'll have much cash left over for shopping once i start paying astronomical rent, but still. it's nice to know i have an outlet for stress relief. speaking of stress, i start work in EY's DC office tomorrow. i am looking forward to it in the same way i look forward to riding goliath at magic mountain. everything's fun and exciting and oh-so-cool until you actually begin that first ascent up fifty thousand flights. then total panic kicks in and you're like, "ok let me off, let me off, LET ME OFF!!!!!!!!! for the love of god, why did i decide to go on this?! I'M GONNA DIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEE! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! " that's me in a nutshell right now. i'm just hoping i'm not the unlucky soul who gets tossed off the rollercoaster in the one freak accident that happens once a year. okay, i'll update later this week if i don't die of heatstroke. ha ha ha i shouldn't even joke about that, since spontaneous combustion is more than just a remote possibility now.  adios, kids!  anyway, i had a decent first week at work. went up to maryland for conference on thursday afternoon, so now i have another state to cross off my list. 22 down, 28 more to go. i explored georgetown today in an attempt to find a korean nail place and got caught in a sudden downpour for 30 minutes. it was hot and sunny when i left my apartment and then 20 minutes later, i looked up and saw dark clouds rolling in fast. the wind kicked up like crazy and people were literally running for cover all over the palce. it was like armageddon, i swear. so i ran to CVS and as soon as i stepped in, the rain came gushing down. i've never seen anything like it, not even in hawaii or asia. i had to buy an umbrella for $10. afterwards the weather cleared up enough to walk outside, so i dropped by georgetown cupcake to wait in line with the other idiots for almost an hour for overpriced cupcakes. they really ARE good, though. i inhaled one at starbucks with a iced green tea and it was absolute heaven. or maybe i was just famished from trying to manage this extreme weather.  from 109 with the heat index to this. all right, enough updating for today - it's time to hit the gym so i can burn off the 1.5 cupcakes i ate. i had to buy six to get a discount and i wanted to try out flavors in order to know what to recommend to people sooooo, yeah. no wonder my pants don't fit properly anymore. i'll leave you with pictures that me and lynn drew of each other in MS paint as an incentive to seriously work out for the next 10 months.  man, what a cranky-looking bride. but i guess i'd be cranky too, if my torso were shaped like spongebob squarepants. haha. note that she is holding a 600 lb gorilla ice cream sandwich in her right hand. it's called 600 lb gorilla because that's what you morph into after eating it every freakin' day for a month. i would know.  this is me wearing rosa's bridesmaid dress. or attempting to, that is, because as you can see, the damn thing won't zip up on the side. lynn also drew me in my running shorts in the bottom right hand corner, which are currently fitting me like hot pants/boy shorts. that would be hot and all if they weren't supposed to be totally loose for working out/running. ARGHGHGH. OKAY I'M GOING TO THE GYM NOW. bye. p.s. and no, i will NOT put the chocolate bar down. | |||||||
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