Love

You know you've finally found just exactly what you want to do with your life when you come to the point where you don't want to leave work.

That's where I'm at in my life right now.

I love my job so much that I don't want to leave.

Except I'm in flippin Chicago and kinda have to experience EVERYTHING! :P

I'm just kinda bummed now because I found out I have to miss work to go do practicum work once...a month?...for half of the day. That really blows. I understand why we're doing work/learning about different neighborhoods, but why can't we do it when we HAVE THE PRACTICUM GROUP!? That's like wayyyy too many hours of being with those people.

Maybe we're supposed to bond and become bffs or something.

Forced bffs are not cool.

Can I go back to work now? What's this weekend junk I've gotta deal with? Why can't I be working? :P

OH! I forgot to mention the best part!

All of the girl interns are going to go see one of Victory's bands called The Audition. Well they were all chit chatting about it (while Rick was showing me how to use the new program about marketing retail info) and Rick jumped in saying how funny it was that all the girls were going to see The Audition while the guys were all going to The Sleeping. I perk up and say, "Well I must be a guy then because I'd rather see The Sleeping." He looks at me for a minute, busts out his wallet, grabs one of his buisness cards and hands it to me, "Call me if you decide to go. I'll put you on the list."

Yeah. I rock. The LIST, baby! I'm legit.

AND THEN LATER...when I told him I was taking off for the day he's like, "WAIT! Do you like cookies!?" And I was like, "Uh...yes...!?!" He opens one of his drawers, snatches up a tiny brown bag of cookies and offers me one. All the other guys around us looked at me with jealousy. Even Brett, the radio guy, walks up behind me and eyes my prize. He's on a "diet" so he always seems to flock where food is...it's funny.

I felt special. It's funny how something so small can mean so much. :)

I feel accepted.

I'm on the list.

I rock. :)

xx

P.S. Rick told us a story about how he used to work for Sony when he was "our age" 10 years ago. I'm not really sure how he starts going on about certain things but it's always hilarious to hear his stories. Well...the moral of this one was that on his first day of the job, Sony had put together a show for Destiny's Child back when they were a four piece and he got to meet Beyonce. He thought that was rad. I just thought it was hilarious -- especially because he listens to METAL now...total opposite of Beyonce. :)