The internet, I've missed you!

A week without the internet at home - how did I survive?? By being pissed off at first then not minding too much and then kinda not caring anymore. Ah internet, we do have a passionate love affair.

Indiana Jones was good but the plot ending was "huh? eh."

Saw Sex and the City tonight. Really good and def fun to see on opening night. The audience cheered at everything! and sounded like they had started early on the cosmos.

I can't remember all my other random thoughts... will post when I do!

Random thoughts

I'm excited about the Indiana Jones movie opening this weekend.

I'm debating between biking, driving, or carpooling/parking/BARTing to work. I currently do the last option but it feels just ok. Three miles from work feels so close and realistic for biking but it's urban biking, you know? To be decided...

I really like this new English artist Adele. Going to see her in SF on Thursday. I like this song but Hometown Glory and Chasing Pavements are also favorites.



I walked around Lake Merritt some during my lunch break today. Nice. If I have more time tomorrow, I will change into my walking clothes and go all the way around.

I've been scapbooking lately and enjoying it. I like being creative, and making fun vibrant memory books in the process.

Seis Random things

Ok, Mark, I'll answer your challenge!

I'm still tired from the new job so it took me three days to notice I was tagged on my own blog to share six random things about myself.

Here are six truly random things about myself:

1) I seriously considered and researched becoming a tiger trainer last summer. I spent hours finding out what schooling you need, what the jobs are, the pay, the need to travel, etc. I read tiger trainer blogs and quizzed my fave tiger spot's trainers where they went to school and how they like the profession. Based mostly on the need to easily relocate which I don't find appealing at this time in my life, I decided not to do it. But it lives on in my heart.

2) I can't whistle.

3) I scored higher in math on my SAT's and got better grades in math my whole life. Math came easy to me; this guy Alfredo and I were the top math ppl in junior high, always competing and tutoring everyone else. Becoming an English major was actually choosing to tackle my weak area, and I left college finally knowing how to write.

4) I really really love football. All football, any team.

5) I love fruit and candy, and fruity candy esp. strawberry belts, gummy bears, and red licorice.

6) My first beloved car was a red Toyota Tercel which I had for nine years, and was named Herbie Charlotte.


Ok, I'l pass this on to Jill and Shyam, who happen to be married. Here's the original passer-on-er's blog Mark.

And here are the rules:

Link to the person who tagged you.
Post the rules on your blog.
Write six random things about yourself.
Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs.
Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website.
Let your tagger know when your entry is up.

End of first wk summary

I'm totally wiped out. A long week both in the day at the new job and at night. Good wk, I still really like the job, just a lot going on. My body feels like I ran a marathon.

On a sidenote, this is an interesting cute website. Social Security has the top baby names since 1880. I looked mine up in my birth year and it was #1 for girls. It was #1 for quite awhile but now Emily has been the top girl baby name since 1996. Hmm... I wouldn't have thought that.

I started to go to random years and saw that my aunt's name in the year of her birth was #5. Looking at the names by years, I realize you can almost tell how old someone is just by their name. My dad's is somewhat rare now but was #6 in his year.

First day of work

Ah, this was a cool first day. Prob my best first day ever. After coming by the office around 3:30pm after a looong HR orientation, I saw my cubicle and got the tour. My team got me flowers, a card which they all signed and wrote witty paragraphs on, included me in an impromptu debrief of a donor visit, thought enough to leave me a Cinco de Mayo cupcake on my desk, and my voicemail and login info was neatly handwritten in a note on my desk. And my training for the next two weeks was scheduled and printed in color on my desk, with a fat binder with my name on it, and my name already on a sign at my cubicle. Wow. My kind of people - considerate, planned out, prepared. I feel won over. If I wasn't already excited about the job, I would be now!

I feel a bit shocked. I have always been thrown into positions with little or no training, and either bored out of my mind for weeks as they get their act together to figure out what they want me to do or have to hit the ground running on the first day, completely overwhelmed. This group, on the other hand, seems aware of the possibility of being overwhelmed starting a new job and carefully plans out the training. Including planning two lunches, one a group team lunch on Friday, into my schedule!! A colleague said this was the best job she ever had in regards to transition - lots of time to learn and train. I really believe her.

I feel a bit spoiled so trying to remind myself that sucky things will come up. But for now, with my new shiny badge with actually a good pic of me on it, I feel really happy. And really grateful. Thanks God.

I just think I might like it here :)