More Drudgery
Last night Laura "picked me up from school" as she called it. She met me at the 116th street subway stop on my way home from school. It was quite nice. She and I spent some quality time on the subway going to Williamsburg. On the ride home she and I were discussing going to the gym together when she realized that she hadn't been to Bikrum Yoga in awhile and that I promised her (albeit a year and a half ago) that I would attend with her. So when we got home we packed up our stuff and headed down to the Yoga place off of N.7th and Berry. Nice place with nice people and everything, but my God was that room hot. After sweating and struggling for an hour and a half I was finally able to leave the room. I have to say that it wasn't a pleasant experience for me. I had too many memories of sitting in saunas trying to sweat off weight for wrestling. It just brought back too many bad memories. It's not that I was a big weight cutter or anything, but I did it enough to know that I don't ever want to do it again.
So after that, Laura and I ordered some Crazy Nacho (Loco Burrito) and watched some Olympics. I thought for sure that once football season was over I was going to cut down my TV consumption but with the Olympics on, there's always something to watch.
So today at work, as I'm sitting here sweltering in the office (why the hell is it so damn hot?) my boss asks me to tally up time sheets. Normally that's not such a bad thing to do, but we have like 10 extra temps and it's just a pain in the ass. I have to sit there and add up time and make sure that people didn't add up their hours incorrectly. Pain in the butt. Then you get those people that love to be precise about their time and mark down "9 mins for lunch", " arrived at 9:22am, left at 5:47pm). Rather irritating. I found a nifty Excel function to work it out, but it's still a pain to enter it all in. I guess that's what you get when you have a job that you don't need a degree to have.
Today Laura and I were planning out our spring break trip. That trip includes a 26 hour drive from New York down to the Houston area. We have already driven it once before. I had a good time last time, so I'm ready to go about it again. Laura said that she's not looking forward to it. I think I really like to listen to books on tape, so maybe that's why I don't mind it. Last time when we were crossing the Mississippi river I almost crashed into someone because I was looking at the water. Stupid me. Fortunately we were able to cross half the country without incident, so that was good. Hoping to do the same this time around.
I have yet to find anything very exciting in my job hunting. Seeing as how Laura and I will be driving into the Austin area in about two and a half weeks, I think that now may be a good time to start to cold call up some companies that are in Austin and arrange some meetings with people. Not that I think I'll be terribly successful in terms of getting appointments and such, but at least I can say that I've given it a try. I'm thinking that I may have to take off from work this Friday.
In addition to the cold calling for jobs, I think that this weekend is going to have to be totally dedicated to writing up my essay rough draft for my Executive Leadership class. I have plenty of materials around the apartment to write it, so I just need to sit down and get cracking. I'm not looking forward to it, but I've been doing lots of reading on good Ol' George Pullman, so I figure that I'll be able to crank out 6-8 pages of draft fairly easily. Making it be quality material is going to be a little harder. Hopefully I'll do just that much better than most people in the course and I'll be all set, but then again, I don't see that happening.
This past weekend Laura and I went to this Foreign MBA fair. She wanted to look into Esada because they have a joint program with U. Texas's McCombs Business school, so she was interested in doing that. So we went there and listened to the question and answer session which was fine. Then after the presentation was over we decided to go to a different one. We didn't feel like sitting through the whole presentation so I just went in to grab the pamphlet. The guy standing at the table looked all me all funny, so I was like "I'm just going to take one of these" and he replies "Why don't you come into to session, then you can have one" I couldn't believe it... fucking bastard. So instead, Laura and I went down to where they had tables and stuff set up and we just stole whatever materials we wanted. So fuck that guy. I was irritated to say the least.
Anyway, it's now approaching 3:00 and I'm really dreading going up to school at 5:00. #1) I just don't feel like it #2) Me and this other kid are assigned these readings. There were 4 books that we were supposed to have read this week. I don't know how professors think that it's actually possible to read all that crap. I suppose maybe if I had just 4 classes and then hung out the rest of the time doing all the reading I could get it done, but the fact of the matter is that I just don't have the desire to waste every waking moment reading for her class. Not to mention that there are plenty of over achievers in the class that love to hear themselves speak, so I would rather just let them speak the whole class and put my two cents in every once in awhile. I did read the book that I am doing the short presentation on, but not the whole thing. It's called Nobility and Civility. It's written by some 85 year old Columbia Professor who is perhaps the most boring writer in the world. I suppose if you were really interested in Asian Culture (I'm not) then this book would be great, but it was so hard to read and just so boring.
As usual, I should get some work done before the day is out, so off I go.
Oh and there are some wrestling pictures from this weekend's homecoming wrestling match here. So feel free to check them out.