The 10hr Work Day

Worked at Columbia today. Got my staff ID. ID person was really friendly. Had a team meeting at the Lamont campus, northwest of us. Had to go thru Jersey to get to the campus. Took a free shuttle that the school provides. The meeting went well; I have a better grasp of the project and how it's coded.

Got off around 7 to meet Keity at her place to go to Planet Fitness. Cardio for 30min, then some squats & crunches.

Made it home tired & hungry so I made whatever came to mind. Rice, fried egg, fried banana & toast. It was amazing! It's crazy how lack of planning can work out so well. Watched the wire and fell asleep.

The Investigative Interview

I met up with a faculty member to interview him on his business research in Turkey. It was quite interesting. I feel like I've written about this already... I went back to see if I did and I didn't. I'm confused. See, this is why I shoudl be writing on here.

The Sexual Harassment & Bills

Thanks to my planner I'm able to go back & mention at least something each day (we'll see how that goes;)

I completed a sexual harassment course today for RF at Lehman.

Today I also called con Edison for our gas & electricity. Bill bills bills...

The Apartment Cleaning

My day pretty much consisted of cleaning the apartment. Alex and I went to Applebee's first just to catch up; then to Target for cleaning supplies & essentials. Then 3-4 hours of cleaning. Even though it was relatively clean, we wanted to give it a nice scrub before we started living in it. Got back to Keity's and cleaned a little more and then bedtime!

The Hudson River Cafe

Woke up and ate delicious Indian food.

Took Keity to see the apartment and brought over some boxes.

Got ready to go out to Dinosaur BBQ & the Hudson River Cafe.

Ate dinner, walked by the Hudson River, and went to the club.

Got home at 2am... had a great night for Bonnie's bday!

Waiting for the train 

Dinner!

After our meals.

By the Hudson River Cafe

Birthday girl lookin all FIERCE

The gang 

Bright lights, big city!

The (hopefully) Final Interview (for a while)

I got up early today, probably because I went to sleep earlier than usual. I made Keity & I a shake for breakfast (strawberries, blueberries, mango, pineapple, oatmeal, almond milk, and honey). She made Bonnie lunch while Hens made her breakfast.

I got ready for my interview and left to get there a few minutes before. When I got to the A subway station, everyone was on the stairs and I didn't know why until I could smell the smoke. Then I saw the smoke. I'm not sure what happened, but I heard that somethings caught on fire, they put it out, and everything was fine except for all the smoke. When I get off the subway, I started walking in the wrong direction, good thing I left early. I still go there a few minutes ahead of time and walked into a beautiful building. It use to be a court (or is...I'm not 100% sure) and I had to take a picture and go through security to get it.

Smoke in the subway

Thus begins the interview. One of the girls interviewing me wouldn't really reply to my response to the questions, but the other one would say things like good answer. So I'm not too sure how to take that part of the interview. Then I had to do a statistical task. I had to import the data from some weird ass format (which I've never used), but I figured it out. Then the computer froze, but luckily I had saved my work. Once I restarted it, I finished the task right on time and had to present my findings to 4 people of the team. I wasn't too nervous, but every time I wanted to say something lie 52,400 I would say 524. Once it was over I felt better, but not as relieved as I thought I would. I never know how to take the interviews and I feel like I do a lot worse than I really do. I stuck around to take pictures of the beautiful buildings there. Then went to work at Columbia.

In the middle of the building

Where I interviewed

 Got home and celebrated Bonnie's bday. I got her a Hello Kitty lunch pail and Hello Kitty pasta. Alex got her flowers with Hens. They were very pretty! We played the celebrity game and ate a lot of food. Oh yeah, I ordered Thai and it was delicious. Overall, it was a good night.

Mini cheesecupcakes

Happy Birthday, Bonnie!

The Career Woman

Today I was in charge of a lot. I got to work and immediately started on a to do list because... there was a lot to do!!! I had to respond to large amounts of emails, update the conference registration, meet about the conference to order giveaways, prep for a faculty workshop that I lead, and order food for next week (via a fax machine that wouldn't cooperate).

I was proud of myself for having a salad and soup for lunch. Talked to my mom (which I miss more and more everyday) and finished some tasks for my mentoring position. I also had a meeting with my coordinator today to discuss how my coaches are doing.

Setting up for the event

I planned to meet the super today to get the keys for the new pad lock he put in, but I was late and he wasn't home and he didn't put a new one in.  At least I was able to drop off some kitchen supplies I snagged up from the event I planned. My boss was so nice to offer any extra materials I might find useful.

I got home and played a little dress up with Keity. Figured out what I'm wearing for Bonnie's bday.. as long as Hensleigh is cool with it :] then we went to PJ for drinks tomorrow.

I got back to the apartment and I started brushing up on my stats for tomorrow's interview. Too bad I don't have SPSS anymore to practice fully. I believed I got enough in and went to sleep (late.. again! I don't understand how this always happens).