It's it hard to believe that I have been working at my fabulous job for 3 weeks already. I think that the Associate Dean of Students said it best this week when she said to me "It seems like you have been here forever - it's hard to believe you've only been here 3 weeks." I like that. It's hard being the newbie, but when you have such great people surrounding you its easy to feel like one of the family. This week I experienced a plethora of meetings or engagements. (Man I love the word plethora - its such a good word to describe a large amount. I used it a lot in grad school to make a point ) Anyway. Monday and Tuesday were normal not so normal Incept days. I pushed back my one-on-one to take care of duties needed for my job...its weird to have duties that you have to miss things for. I have a fabulous boss though - who is always flexible with things such as that. Wednesday - well Wednesday began with the Student Affairs division awards at 8:30am. Oh and don't forget this was an Incept day too. This breakfast/awards ceremony lasted until around 10:30am. Then I headed to the Dean of Students Staff meeting at 11:00am. This was fun times. Then to a Birthday celebration at 12:00pm for the June Birthdays. Don't forget in between all this I had to make sure that the Parents who were helping that day were okay. I knew they would be and that it really was unnecessary to check on them, but since I am new I like to verify that everything is going okay. Then at 1:30pm I had a Homecoming meeting. This is a meeting I was totally looking forward to because I can't really plan family weekend without knowing what Homecoming has going on. (They are the same weekend - October 2-3). Then back over to Incept to give the Parents Association and Parent Relations talk. This group of parents was particularly talkative about FERPA. Sometimes they make me want to laugh so hard - but I have to hold it in. Finally after that I was good to go for the day. The time 3:30pm. I had barely been in my office all day and by that time I couldn't really do much else. What a day!
Thursday and Friday were much slower around the office because there was no Incept. Thursday some of us from the office went to Ruben's Cafe. Really good sandwiches, Andrew and I ate there when we came to visit. It was fun just taking some time out of work to learn about my coworkers and their outside work lives. It was another glorious day outside - even though it is very hot I like it. Friday was particularly quiet as it was just me and Sylvia for the most part in the office. I ate Chickfila for the first time since moving here. Man their lemonade is soooooo good.
Everyone knows I love me some sports. GSU is starting its first football season this year. I decided that I would go to the games even it was by myself - so I bought season tickets. We get a discount as staff so I picked some fabulous seats in the forth row. Did I mention these games are at the Georgia Dome? If not - the entire season is played at the Georgia Dome. Pretty stinking fabulous.
Friday I also ordered my much needed graduation frame from Missouri State. I love the connections I have made at the bookstore. They are fabulous!!! **As I type this another person just drove the wrong way down Piedmont!!!!** I went into the bookstore at GSU also - trying to decide still on my first purchase. After work Friday I went to blockbuster because I really wanted to rent Super Mario Bros for Wii, which I did. I now understand how people can get hooked on these games. I had to set a timer on my phone so that I would stop playing - otherwise I think I could have wasted my entire Friday and Saturday night. (I still didn't do much - but I didn't want to just play video games) Anyway on my drive home a car lost its hubcap. I giggled. I don't know why this was so funny - maybe because the other cars at the light just starred at it like they had never seen a hubcap before. I swerved to go around it as I passed through the light - the car behind me not so lucky. They just ran straight over it. Seriously how dumb can you be? That cannot be good for your car. Friday night was also strange as some random person knocked on my door - well I shouldn't say they were completely random I had seen them in the building before. He asked if some person ("Billy" I think) lived there. I said no and he apologized. The weird part is that he returned about 2 hours later - knocking and knocking like crazy. I didn't answer this time. Weird.
I am pretty much completely unpacked now. Just the nick knack shelf to put together and I am finished. I know this has taken me longer then I wanted, but after work each night I have no desire to do anything besides read or watch TV. Maybe that makes me lazy, but hey I don't really care.
I am likely the holiday weekend. But really I have had too much "I" time. I spend too much time alone it seems. I really believe that I have lost some of my "E" in this move. I am nervous to be around a large group of people that I don't know. Today though I am going to break this trend. I plan to spend my whole day (after this post) on the rooftop pool. Hopefully creeper will not be there. And yes I plan to wear plenty of sunblock! Its been two weeks straight of sunburns so I am going to try and break that trend. Also I am hoping that from the roof we can see the fireworks at multiple locations around town. If not, no big deal - the view is still spectacular.
Happy 4th of July to everyone!!!!! Miss you all!
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