Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Small world...
So, I started work at the Fed yesterday, and so far it's pretty low key...there are 18 other people in my department, and another girl is starting on Monday so I won't be the most junior analyst for long. The guy who's training me has been at the Fed for 23 years, which is pretty ridiculous. He JUST got off of the waiting list for a parking spot, which is also pretty ridiculous. My manager, who's almost been there for 20 years, still hasn't managed to get one. They're both really nice. I had lunch with my manager and stopped in to talk with my VP and met everyone except one person who's on vacation so I'm obviously very behind on names. Luckily there's a directory with pictures of everyone so I can discreetly memorize everyone...
Right now I'm just doing training stuff: relearning the purposes and functions of the Fed system, learning how to use the computer programs they designed for our department, and random other stuff. Fun part: they're almost definitely sending me to the Board of Governors (ie DC!) for a weeklong training thing from July 27-31. The registration deadline passed a while ago, but they seem to think I can get into the hotel and all. Because I would be paaaaid to go! Which is excellent.
Another semi-related story: I went out to lunch with a couple of the next-level-up people in the department, and the guy asked me if I was into college basketball. We start talking and he mentions that he was at the Nova game last year. I said we were there, and he asks what section...with a very specific description of where we were sitting. In the small world twist, turns out he was sitting right behind us, and may have been involved in the group of people that kept calling security on us to get us to sit down. Apologizing quickly ensued, although he said that he completely understood (he went to PSU and did the whole 100,000+people football game thing).
Ok rambling, the end.
Right now I'm just doing training stuff: relearning the purposes and functions of the Fed system, learning how to use the computer programs they designed for our department, and random other stuff. Fun part: they're almost definitely sending me to the Board of Governors (ie DC!) for a weeklong training thing from July 27-31. The registration deadline passed a while ago, but they seem to think I can get into the hotel and all. Because I would be paaaaid to go! Which is excellent.
Another semi-related story: I went out to lunch with a couple of the next-level-up people in the department, and the guy asked me if I was into college basketball. We start talking and he mentions that he was at the Nova game last year. I said we were there, and he asks what section...with a very specific description of where we were sitting. In the small world twist, turns out he was sitting right behind us, and may have been involved in the group of people that kept calling security on us to get us to sit down. Apologizing quickly ensued, although he said that he completely understood (he went to PSU and did the whole 100,000+people football game thing).
Ok rambling, the end.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Almost escaping from home...
Well likewise if this is to Kim its probably silly to put in a general life update but oh well, I'm doing it anyway. After a good month + being at home not doing anything at all with the exception of a few day/overnight trips, I'm actually getting ready to move on from a life of nothingness. The beach in mid-june was incredible, but coming back from that was pretty dull with like two weeks of doing seriously nothing but sitting on the couch watching the degrassi marathon. ANyway I got a job working for a law firm in dc that does mostly lobbying for as the guy I interviewed described it, "anyone who wants to do good in the world." Basically a lot of health care, some universities, but really anyone, a native american tribe, some random things. I'm mostly going to be doing administrative stuff at least at first, but seems fairly interesting.
Fourth of july weekend was awesome, I went down to DC and had lots of fun adventures in georgeotwn and aroudn the city. Friday night they do a rehearsal of the big concert they do on the mall on the 4th, and its free and basically the exact same thing except no fireworks at the end and not the millions of people, so if you're around next year, I highly recommend it. Plus some adams morgan adventures and tim's law firm taking us out for big slice at 2am, pretty sweet. On the 4th it was mostly wandering between barbeques and grilling ourselves, visiting gugs and irc, and then heading up to lxr rooftops for the fireworks. Evidently they are renovating the entire building, but since securitas isnt super bright, they didnt seem to notice that zach (who is living in vcw this summer so his gocard still works) signed us all into derek's old room. Lots of people in 321 that night...Anyway we proceeded to set up revolutionary war beer pong, complete with the arrival of the french and bad odds for the americans. Sadly we'll never know how the war would end b/c some stupid hall director decided drinking was bad. Fireworks were sweet, the people left, and we started up flip cup for awhile until the evil lady came back, at which point we went to tombs. Beautiful day celebrating america's freedom.
Friday also was spent apartment hunting, as was yesterday, both of which were fairly frustrating endeavors as me and Tash watched our beautiful dreams of cheap dupont apartments disappear into flames. It seems like everything is either just above our price range, in a basement, sort of old/dirty, or out of the neighborhoods we actually wanted to be in. But theres a cool apartment in a really nice building in Chinatown, also very fun, if a little less quiet than dupont. And on the upside, we'll be able to have the pre/post game for all basketball games :) Itll be a nice change of pace being able to walk to the games...
SO moral of the story is, I start work next week, and at least for now I'm commuting from home. Which will seriously suck. And I really dont know what to expect out of working, but itll be nice to be moving forward with something, if that makes sense. And its weird that this time of nothingness will be done, but nice at the same time. ANd hopefully things will work out with this apartment, so I can move in fairly soon. And then life post-grad in dc can begin :) And will be taking any and all visitors at any time...
Fourth of july weekend was awesome, I went down to DC and had lots of fun adventures in georgeotwn and aroudn the city. Friday night they do a rehearsal of the big concert they do on the mall on the 4th, and its free and basically the exact same thing except no fireworks at the end and not the millions of people, so if you're around next year, I highly recommend it. Plus some adams morgan adventures and tim's law firm taking us out for big slice at 2am, pretty sweet. On the 4th it was mostly wandering between barbeques and grilling ourselves, visiting gugs and irc, and then heading up to lxr rooftops for the fireworks. Evidently they are renovating the entire building, but since securitas isnt super bright, they didnt seem to notice that zach (who is living in vcw this summer so his gocard still works) signed us all into derek's old room. Lots of people in 321 that night...Anyway we proceeded to set up revolutionary war beer pong, complete with the arrival of the french and bad odds for the americans. Sadly we'll never know how the war would end b/c some stupid hall director decided drinking was bad. Fireworks were sweet, the people left, and we started up flip cup for awhile until the evil lady came back, at which point we went to tombs. Beautiful day celebrating america's freedom.
Friday also was spent apartment hunting, as was yesterday, both of which were fairly frustrating endeavors as me and Tash watched our beautiful dreams of cheap dupont apartments disappear into flames. It seems like everything is either just above our price range, in a basement, sort of old/dirty, or out of the neighborhoods we actually wanted to be in. But theres a cool apartment in a really nice building in Chinatown, also very fun, if a little less quiet than dupont. And on the upside, we'll be able to have the pre/post game for all basketball games :) Itll be a nice change of pace being able to walk to the games...
SO moral of the story is, I start work next week, and at least for now I'm commuting from home. Which will seriously suck. And I really dont know what to expect out of working, but itll be nice to be moving forward with something, if that makes sense. And its weird that this time of nothingness will be done, but nice at the same time. ANd hopefully things will work out with this apartment, so I can move in fairly soon. And then life post-grad in dc can begin :) And will be taking any and all visitors at any time...
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Mainly for Emily
So, Emily and I have been talking about reviving this as a way to at least be able to choose to read updates on everyone's lives, and we decided that the easiest way to inspire participation would be to just restart it. I know I'm writing as if there are more than a possible one other person reading this, because I am going to be optimistic, but realistically, hi Emily!
My quick/biggest life update would be about my job at the Fed here in Philly, which I start on the 13th. So, I've scarily only got a week and a half left of summer before I start off in the real world, or something like that. Not going to lie, it's pretty terrifying without having all of you guys here (although I know Mike and I will prove that Philly is the place to be soon enough, DC and NYC are so cliché). But hopefully things will get more interesting once I start working and meeting people; it's pretty quiet here especially since I have to live at home for the immediate future (hope to move out in 6 months...) and a larger-than-I'd-think contingent of my friends from home are either working in some other city or on an orch tour in Argentina.
Other than that...apparently most people are in DC or NYC for the 4th, but not me...my planned trip up to NYC got unceremoniously canceled by my parents in what I'm sure will not be their last act of semi-tyranny against my now-college-graduated self. Oh well. I'll move my reading at home all day to reading on the beach all day down the shore with the family, after another round of Bri's 8 athletic teams' games.
My quick/biggest life update would be about my job at the Fed here in Philly, which I start on the 13th. So, I've scarily only got a week and a half left of summer before I start off in the real world, or something like that. Not going to lie, it's pretty terrifying without having all of you guys here (although I know Mike and I will prove that Philly is the place to be soon enough, DC and NYC are so cliché). But hopefully things will get more interesting once I start working and meeting people; it's pretty quiet here especially since I have to live at home for the immediate future (hope to move out in 6 months...) and a larger-than-I'd-think contingent of my friends from home are either working in some other city or on an orch tour in Argentina.
Other than that...apparently most people are in DC or NYC for the 4th, but not me...my planned trip up to NYC got unceremoniously canceled by my parents in what I'm sure will not be their last act of semi-tyranny against my now-college-graduated self. Oh well. I'll move my reading at home all day to reading on the beach all day down the shore with the family, after another round of Bri's 8 athletic teams' games.
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