Lessions

So, I guess you are not supposed to write on your hand when you're in the business world...people look at you funny.!

Copiers and Printers galore!

So it's been awhile-sorry to all my 'faithful'' readers out there! (PS to meg-thanks for the savage love tip-it's been hell with out it!)

But matt came down this weekend and it was AWESOME! Besides getting to see my bf and hang with him, it was just really awesome to be able to go out with someone in the city. Thursday he came down and we went to the art museum down the street! And all for free-thursdays from 5-8 are free, so we did a 'power aaaaaart' hour and ran around the place seeing all the cool art.

Then the next day I had to go into work at McDonalds (and no, there are not any fry machines...sadly) and it wasn't the best day-was kinda tired after 50 hours that week, and then had to deal with rush hour traffic in Chicago (also not fun) but Matt and I hung out that night and ate chinese-yay!

Then Saturday we went to the Shedd aquarium which was REALLY cool-and i got a discount because the oceanium isn't open till June, PLUS I'm a Chicago resident now ;)

Then we lazed about and went out to Gino's East Pizzaria and waiting outside in line...to wait INSIDE in a line. Finally we got in and wrote our names on the wall-everyone does it-I can't wait till Matt puts the pictures up -hint!

Sunday we went to some Jewish diner and I kept texting Brandon about the place! And the burgers were REALLY good. But then Matt left-sad!

But on the bright side, I'm with a new team this week and I really like this group-it's only the 3 of us, so it's nice to work close with people. However, what I've learned so far on this internship is that the most frustrating part of this internship is the COPIER/PRINTER! OMG! I feel like I"m in Office Space. There's 4 main printers on one floor and everyday at least one gets jammed and then everyone prints on one printer and then it's full...but I think that's it for today, back to the bachelor!

Girls afternoon!

Got out of work early and actually saw sunlight! A few of the girls decided to go out and grab a drink after work (again, with tax and tip my beer =$7), and it was really nice to talk to a few of the girls i haven't really met yet. It was a little sad today because it was the last day of training so we won't really see anyone for a while since we'll all be working, but hopefully there'll be stuff on the weekends!

Milk War: Round 1

Milk War Round 1 is over! Tom and I talked about how much we drank milk when we moved in so we decided to have a 'milk war' to see who could finish a gallon of milk first...and I WON!

Also, yesterday was horrible-I was super hung over from going out Saturday-was it worth it? Maybe, had an awesome time Saturday, but awful time Sunday...

Talked to people from home for about FOUR HOURS yesterday! So funny how much you miss out in a week.

But probably going to chill today, and get ready for more training tomorrow!

Differences

So the onion here does NOT have savage love in the back...and I don't know why-in both issues I've picked up-nada.

Also really cool are the street musicians-in the subways!! I went home on the red today and three guys were singing stand by me-it was so sweet and good but i didn't have any money to give...

Someone was walking with a sled??? They had their groceries on a sled??? I've never seen this.

PS: Working on a saturday sucks. Hopefully i don't work saturday next week.

Making Hamburger Helper!

So today was a really long day, we started 30 minutes later, and expected to get out at 430...but we got out at 630...soooo yeah. At least we get paid time and a half overtime. But I don't think I said anything about yesterday...

Yesterday was a day in the making, I finally got some people out after work! I announced to all 70 of us that we were going bowling/bar-ing it up, and out of those people 7 arrived-4 of which were from Madison (including me) and 2 of my new close friends, and a friend of the Madison guys...so no one new came out-which was a bummer...But I was happy that we all hung out for a couple of hours and relaxed! (Also the price on the beer was insane! $5 for a miller lite! What!?)

However, when we left it was so cold that I decided to take the train instead of walk, and Spencer was like "oh we can take the red", so we went to this stop underground and I felt like someone was going to rob me it was so scary! And the worst part was that I learned that since the red is underground for a bit...it goes UNDER the river! So the whole while I was waiting I kept thinking that the river would fall into the subway. But it didn't (obviously).

And then an hour after I got home a random intern called wanting to know about the bowling, and I talked to someone the next day that had to have their internet hooked up, so that gave me some hope that these interns want to hang out.

Tomorrow we have a 'happy hour' with the firm, so I'm sure everyone will go out, I'm going to see how I do on darts vs these Chicago folks!

Wow

So we had our second day, and it was really nice because we had all these interns from other cities, but my table had two girls from the previous day that are really cool-so I had a good time! The lunch provided today was realllllllly good too, I had this big salad with chips and guacamole and this really good soup. Yum. I met another accountant that's really energetic like me, so that could be either really good or really bad! But he's nice as well.

At the end of our day though, I was really excited to go out with all the other interns and get to know people on a more friend based way, but a lot of people flaked out and we decided not to go. That was a big bummer, and then I got home and one of my friends called and had her laptop STOLEN! On the first day! Someone had thrown a brick into her car to take it-so I helped her out and found out who to call, but it was so surprising....I almost forgot that i was living in a big city. Luckily though it was on our first day and we didn't have any work on because that would be even more horrible!

But because of that i was able to talk to my peer adviser and she seemed nice, and she was also surprised that no one was going out...hopefully tomorrow we'll go somewhere...

More to come!

Sear'ious Awesome Tower

So I had my first day of work today, it was pretty cool. One of my accounting friends and I decided to meet up before and walk in together to the Sear's Tower. We had to check in at the front desk and go through security, and then were on our floor! There were about 50 other new hires, and I was seated at a table with 4 other employees who were all pretty cool. I was hoping that we could all get a drink or food after the day, but we were all so drained from all the orientation that everyone headed home.

This is where I made my big mistake...I wanted to see how long it took to walk from the Sear's Tower to our apartment and I found out that it was 30 minutes, and that I should never walk in high heels again! I had two huge blisters on the bottom of my feet and the minute I got in my apartment building I took them off. It was really funny because this lady noticed what i had done and we were laughing about it.

Hopefully I will be able to walk better tomorrow, and buy some flat nice shoes, my feet are not made for high heels.

Tomorrow I Work!!!

So after getting not enough sleep-the bed is WAY too big and they gave me five pillows that all have a different feel-I got a few errands done today.

Around noon then, we all went out for a little walk down Michigan Avenue towards Millennium Park, it was a pretty beautiful day for January. Saw all the weird art things there, the digital face things, the bean, the other artsy stuff, and then we decided to walk to the Sears Tower. It was pretty weird at first because all the buildings are so tall and it takes a while to get used to, especially after living in Madison where you can see the capital from everywhere. But it was pretty funny seeing a Dunkin Donuts on every block (more than Starbucks!) and so many sandwich places. Also saw a fair share of homeless people for a Sunday afternoon.

But the Sears Tower was pretty scary when you stand right below it and straight up and can't see the top-will find out tomorrow how it feels to be IN the Sears Tower.

Stopped at a pizza place for lunch and had a 'famous deep dish pizza', but I think I liked the Gino's deep dish pizza better, and then caught the orange line home.

Also found out that we don't have a mail key for our mailbox and it looks like there's a broken off key in the keyhole for it...will have to ask landlord about that later.

More to come tomorrow!

First Full Day

Hey all-I'm creating a blog so I can update everyone on my life without calling everyone in my phone-so read if you want!

I moved into the Chicago apartment yesterday-Craigslist worked EXTREMELY well finding a good sublet. We're in the South Loop a few blocks away from the El (I'm learning the lingo haha) and yesterday we looked around and discovered like 5 sandwich shops all within a few blocks. So I will never be short on Subway or Potbellies.

Also really nice is that we have a grocery store a few blocks away that's open 24/7. It was super weird getting some basic staples because the aisles were crazy skinny and there were so many people more. Eileen kept making fun of me saying 'this is the city not the suburbs'-pretty funny! Main differences so far- eggs are crazy expensive here! It was about $2.29 for 12 larges eggs. Also, I was really mad about this one, I could find no fresh green leaf or romaine lettuce-they only had the bagged salads, and only fresh iceberg. Very weird.

But after we all settled in (and I took a nap) we decided to hit up Chicago and downed about a whole bottle of wine. We decided not to go to far so we went to the Wabash tap-basically the equivalent of the Red Shed in my opinion. Only real choice was beer-they would make mixed drinks but not the type of bar for that. Was kinda disappointed that they only had one dart board and only one pool table, but they did have food! We had some nachoes!

Got back and woke up this morning really early because everything's still so new, and looked outside to see everything covered in fog! It was very weird, I couldn't see the buildings one-two blocks over it was so foggy. It just lifted during this post so that was very weird. We'll see how today turns out!