The Cat's Nuts

Well, as it turns out, this is the first day since I've been employed at my new job where I have time to breath. The Boss is out, so I'm hanging out working on this terrible spreadsheet. What fun. Oh well. So recently I’ve been working at this staffing agency. It’s been fun and interesting, but it’s just a ton of work. I mean, compared to working at the law firm, this is sooooo much busier. So combined with going to school and working I’m just on the go all the time. Maybe it’ll help me slim down a little bit.

So it’s been pretty exciting being back at school. I think that I’ve avoided the “senioritis” that renders so many other students incapable of doing their work and makes them lazy bastards. I’ve been doing all my work and keeping up on my readings, so it makes class pretty interesting. More than that, it allows me to do my work on my own and realize what the hell I’m actually doing. I just did a problem set the other day for my Econ class…and I did it by myself. For anyone that’s ever had econ problem sets, they’ll realize that they are NEVER done alone. But I did it and it worked out just fine. So that’s good. I’m just really excited to be going to class and getting the degree done with. I can feel myself taking a step closer to being a graduate with every class that I sit through. It’ll just be so nice when I can finally step away from that school and be done with it. Totally done and not ever have to think or worry about it again. Just to continue on my path.

I’ve been thinking about how I’m going to go about adjusting my resume to kind of hide the being away from school for two years. I figure that I can just put “Class of 2006” on there and no one would be any wiser. I think that’s what I’ll end up doing. Because well… fact of the matter is, it’s none of anyone’s business why it took me so damn long to finish school. Those two years are my business. It’s funny now that I see how people really look at the nitty gritty of resumes and the questions that are asked, I can see how careful I’m going to have to be when it comes to changing mine around. Not that I’ll lie, because that’s just stupid, but we’ll see. I may end up taking the law firm experience off there in the end. Granted, it may give me an edge to getting an office job with having the years of work experience, but I think that I’d rather distance myself from those questions and just tout the fact that I’ll be a CU grad. We’ll see when the time approaches.

So hopefully (crossing fingers) that Laura is going to be getting a new job pretty soon. Not really sure yet if it’s going to come through….well we’re sure it is, it’s just a matter of when she’s going to hear about it. She’ll be doing E-Consulting for a company that runs the software for online government bidding. That’s about the extent of it that I understand. But from what I hear it’ll be good. The only downside is that she’ll be traveling sometimes from Sunday through Thursday. So that’ll suck but at the same time at least I’ll have the quiet in the house to study and get my work done. Although it will suck when I’m cramming and writing a paper and I need her help. Oh well. So far she’s been super great with helping me stay on track and helping to revise the one paper that I’ve had to write thus far. I’m looking forward to pulling my first GPA of over a 3.0 this semester .

So how about them Dolphins? That Nick Saban feller sure knows what the hell he’s doing. I guess it helps when you have a kick ass defense and a running back with some balls. I can’t wait till Ricky is back in week 6. They are going to be playoff contenders and it’s going to be amazing. The Bills don’t stand a chance against them and the Jets, now that Pennington has his broken shoulder…well yeah I can’t really see Fielder bringing the Jets to the playoffs….it’s awesome. So now the Dolphins just have to beat the Patriots….twice and they are good to go. As of now they are standing tall at #1 in their division, so that’s pretty nifty. Anyway. Enough Football chatter.

Tonight Laura and I are going to dinner at the Times Square Brewery. Not that I would ever pay to eat there because while they do brew their own beer which I appreciate, it’s terrible and sold out and just a tourist trap. But, Laura’s company is throwing a party thing there for employee appreciation so we’ll have dinner and drinks there before we go and see Avenue Q tonight at 8:00. It should make for a nice Friday evening.

Tomorrow morning is the day. I’ve had 15 gallons of alcoholic beverages sitting in the living room for the past 5 weeks. We’ve been soooooo lazy about bottling it. It’s just that for us to bottle it, we need to peel off some labels and that’s just a pain in the butt. But tomorrow morning, those labels are going to meet their maker. I’m going to just go nuts for however long it takes to strip off 6 cases worth of labels. Am I looking forward to it? Hell no. But at the same time… it’ll be nice to have some different beer.

Recently I’ve been drinking that 12% English Ale that we made awhile ago. It’s actually pretty good. We over carbonated it, so it just bubbles like crazy if you try to drink it from the bottle, but otherwise it’s damn good and you can’t tell that there’s 12% in there. So in that regard it’s pretty impressive. We are going to bottle the Lemonade, Scottish 80 and my German Alt Stout. I’m really looking forward to the Alt Stout. It was really bitter when it was in the pot, but I was told that that may be because I over did it with the hops  Whoops. What are you going to do. Hopefully it’ll be drinkable and we’ll not have to worry about it.

Anyway, I have about an hour and a half till I can get out of here, so I figure that I might as well get some work done.

Posted by Michael at 08:27 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Well now that things are in full swing, it actually is getting a little easier to be back at school. I'm in a rythem now. The only problem is now that the classes are getting going, I realize how much more I'm going to need to learn. I've forgotten the basic math that's involved in all the econ that I'm doing, so that really makes things difficult. And on top of that, the calculus is just TOTALLY gone. It's been around 3 years since I've even thought of calc. Oh well.

Next weekend I'll end up going home for the weekend to go to my little cousin's 1st birthday party, and hopefully at that point I can salvage some of my old papers and problem sets and gain some insight from that stuff.

You know... I've found it harder and harder to write in the blog. I guess when I had my old job, I could just churn out all sorts of worthless stuff, but I've found that my time is more valuable now that I've got so little of the free stuff. Anyway. I'm off to get some dinner.

Posted by Michael at 08:28 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Yeah, I totally forgot how much reading they assign in school. I have over 300 pages to read before Monday. Of course I'm heading out to Harrisburg PA for a wedding that's been planned for months. It's going to be miserable. At least I'll be able to do some of it.

I have found that it's already easier to read than it was when I was in school. Now I have plent of Subway reading time and I can read when I get home. It's kind of funny. Now that I have limited time I find more time to do the important things. I suppose that's a good thing.

I can already tell that this is going to be a long semester. Hopefully next semester I'll have classes with less reading. One good thing is that the classes that I have for this semester are pretty much reading only. I have no problem sets or papers. So it's just midterms and finals. That's a good thing and a bad thing at the same time. I have a feeling that I'll be pretty damn tired of reading ina few weeks. oh well... whatcha going to do? Laura will keep me on track I'm sure. She's good like that... she keeps me on track.

Anyway, we just got back from going out to dinner and it's pretty late. Laura's friend Chris is in from Houston so we're just going to hang out for a bit. Tomorrow. I have a BBQ and Nick's place, so I'll get up early to read and then we'll head out there. Anyway, I feel like I'm just rambling, so I'm gonig to end this entry. I'll try to do a bit more, but now that I have a job that actually requires me to do stuff during the day I am finding it harder and harder to make entries.

At least I have the blog all set and preferences all determined so now it's just easy to post. Anyway... off I go.

Posted by Michael at 08:26 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

So today was the first day back at school. It was how do you say...miserable? Well...I don't think that I would actually call it miserable, but it wasn't that great to be back. There were so many little things that I had to do and people that I needed to talk to and worst of all...more loans that I needed to take out.

It's 11:30 right now, and I'm about to head to bed. I never really realized how much I was able to keep up with the news and things with all my time at the old law firm. At the new office, it's all work and no play at all. I like it, but it's hard to get other sorts of things done when they need to be.

Found out that I needed to take out more money. So I think the grand total for my undergrad education (from my pocket...not my parents) is going to be around 50K. Now THAT is miserable. Oh well.

Our house is a total mess. There are three carboys full of beer and we have no clean bottles to fill. I sooooo don't feel like cleaning bottles. Hell... the house needs to be cleaned way way more than bottles and do you see that getting done? Nope. It's still messy. Not to mention hot.

Rent is due. That's another fun treat. At least I got one last big check from the law firm before I left, but I figure that if all goes well that the new staffing place, I should be pretty good with money. Also having Mom and Dad lend me a little cash each month to help pay for expenses in case my job doesn't net me enough money.

So far the new job has been pretty good. They are super fexible with time and such, so that's good. I haven't solidified a schedule yet, but I think I should work full long days on Thursday and Friday's so that'll be good financially. I may take Monday's off though to save me from going back and forth from Columbia and the Upper East Side (my job) too often.

Oh... yeah...and I've been super bad about Blogging too.

I went to Saranac Lake this weekend. That was super fun. I'll have to post up some pictures... but not tonight. Who the hell knows when I'll get around to it. Anyway. Off to bed. It's a school night....damn I've been saying that for the past two years and now it's actually true.

Posted by Michael at 08:25 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)