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!