no not the cheesy girly movie, but my life right now. last week my boss was sick and took off, i was felt like my favorite childhood book "the puppy without a boy" (or something like that, my mom would know). i felt like i had no direction. i realize that it is times like this where i should take initiative and make work for me to do...but i also feel that i've only been in this role for about a month now and that without direction i really don't know what to do. i found that i'm not very good with initiative right now...at least with my job. if it were next year, i feel that i wouldn't have any problem with it, but right now i'm still overwhelmed and trying to take in everything like an overfull sponge. but i'm still learning and will hopefully continue to improve my initiative skills. grad class assignments aren't too overwhelming with the exception of the reading. i told fink, my best friend, that i've read more in one week of grad school than i did the whole way through high school. the reading is important BUT i'm a slow reader so having to read over 300 pages per week is pretty much impossible, so i've had to improve my scanning skills very quickly so that i can keep up with the rest of the class. well enough about classwork...
this past weekend adam gave me friday off so i drove to tampa to spend the weekend with Kat. friday she cooked some awesome steaks and we just relaxed and watched a movie since i got there late. saturday we went to crate & barrel (really really really expensive housing/furniture store), giordano's pizza (really good chicago pizza place, it was really good and the only time i've ever been full from eating 2 pieces of pizza {don't worry NY pizza is still my fav} but it was still definitely top 5 pizzas i've ever eaten), then we played mini-golf at a really cool course which we placed wages on it BUT we tied!!!...o well it was fun. i came back to tally last night after watching the depressing steelers game...it's gonna be a long season if we can only put up 2 scores per game.
today we had our first IM football game tonight...our team name explains the team very well "We Try." we lost by 2 scores on 2 big plays...our offense is pretty bad but our D isn't too bad. it was a bit frustrating b/c of the rules, i've never played co-ed football so it's very different for me. this week should be a good week with school and work. i'm caught up on reading so hopefully tomorrow i can work ahead a bit!! that will be nice!
