August 31, 2003 at 12:54 pm · Filed under life updates
It has certainly been a while since my last update. I got that job offer from Bain. My official offer letter arrived about a week ago. Now I have no motivation to go to grad school, except to stay with Ryan. Bain sent me a Tiffany’s keychain along with my offer letter. I’ve never gotten anything from Tiffany’s before.
Classes started this past Wednesday, but for me it was all rather anti-climatic. I have no Wednesday classes this semester. 90% of my conversations on Wednesday went as follows:
enthusiastic person I pass walking by: “So how did classes go today Shan?”
me: “What an interesting question, enthusiastic person!”
My room is pretty settled in; I still have decorating to do, but everything’s in its place. There is still some trash laying around, like a Domino’s Pizza box, but that wasn’t entirely my fault. UVA blocked my laptop’s IP address because of the whole worm fiasco, and as a result I can’t take advantage of the wonderful wireless internet available in my room. *sigh* I GUESS I’ll resort to a physical cables. Ethernet cables are like, SO last year.
August 6, 2003 at 10:31 pm · Filed under daily grind
Sometimes you just feel useful. Othertimes you don’t. I felt useful today, but that doesn’t necessarily mean I was actually useful. My case has a big presentation at the client tomorrow, and I volunteered to help put together some slides, make some random phone calls. Have you ever called the McDonald’s corporate headquarters? They’re in Chicago. They also have regional offices in Atlanta, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Denver, but Phoenix only has a satellite office. Oh the things you learn in a day’s work. I think that I am on the hit-list of each of the receptionists in all of those offices, especially the one at the corporate headquarters. They hate me so much, I just know it. But Bain likes me now because I gathered them information. And frankly, since Bain’s the one paying me, I really couldn’t care less what McDonald’s corporate headquarters thinks of me. Two more days until I find out my full-time offer decision.
I can’t decide whether or not I’m nervous about my final presentation, slotted for 9AM Friday morning. *sigh* I really don’t want to screw it up.
I went and hung out with Valter last night. We, ironically given all those calls I made today, went to McDonald’s. We also watched Training Day. That is a violent movie. Made me think of that Alan Jackson song about September 11. “Did you turn off that violent movie you were watching, and turn on I Love Lucy reruns” Is America’s problem really the media? Those Hong Kong movies are much more violent than any American ones that I’ve seen, and having grown up watching those, I don’t think I’m seriously messed up. Had an interesting conversation with him afterwards too, while he continually pumped up a basketball with one of those infusion pumps, made popular by not-so-hot-shot Mr. Kobe Bryant himself.
