What a week!!!!! Amy warned me it would be busy. Everyone warned me it was busy season and it would be... you know... busy. But jeez!!! I didn't see it coming! Not like this!
I talk about how my life reminds me of cheesy movies without the cheesy, but guys... the struggle is real. All these pretty people look so glamorous going to work in their fancy coats, making a difference, blah, blah, blah.. but y'all... You have to get up every morning and try to make yourself look presentable and then you have to struggle to just meet deadlines. Real life = not glamorous.
[WARNING, this could get graphic]
First struggle daily. The alarm. When you are at the office working until 11 pm. Seven o'clock feels ridiculously early! When am I supposed to shower? Um... don't think these people want to sit with me in a tiny conference room without me showering... So... when? Ok, fine midnight it is! That will mean my hair will be halfway dry in the morning and the struggles will only involve getting rid of frizz, huge bags under my eyes, and the exhausted look I've perfected over the years. The later the nights... the more the makeup. Except for you know... Wednesday, when I forgot to finish my makeup and just walked out the door. Poor people at work.
Second struggle of the day. Yeah... I love the subway and I love my walk to the subway, but... to go to the client site, there was also a bit of a walk involved. Not too long, BUT, if you add the big bag I use to put my boots once I change into my heels and the huge laptop case and the paper work... yeah it's a long day. So Monday I walked. I was fresh and ready for the new adventure. New building in a tiny conference room, but WITH 5 very funny guys that were very helpful and patient during my time there this week. Monday, I was so well rested!!!!
I was a bit concerned about the week because after my first two weeks, I felt the stress coming on the rest of the team. Now, if there's something I am horrible at doing, it is watching other people stress. I hate it. I don't like not being able to help someone that's struggling!! And believe me, when you are an intern, all you are really good at is being a burden of questions on the actually busy people. This week though... it was busy for me too!! I spent the week helping one of the 'Staff 2's' with his work. If you'd
asked me to do this 2 weeks ago, I think I would have cried, but this
week... I even started to enjoy it! I like understanding what I'm
doing!!! Although... I still asked a trillion questions and probably
drove everyone crazy. But they are just the best!!! If I had to describe the team (both at the client site and in our office) in 4 words, I would use: patient, sweet, funny, and helpful! Oh yeah... maybe young too. They are the best, and I am the luckiest.
Anyway... my days involved a LOT of work, late night till after 11... and lots of laughing. But back to the daily struggle bus they skip in all these cheesy movies. Tuesday felt like a joke. I stayed up until 1 on Monday finishing some work and I woke up at 5 to finish it. No, no one asked me to do such a crazy thing, but... I really wanted to get that task done so we could keep going and didn't get behind. So, I did it. But by the time I was presentable and ready to go... there was no way I was walking with all my stuff. Soooo when that lovely yellow cab drove by... I took the chance and went for it! Wednesday and Thursday turned out to be pretty similar as well... but what was I to do? I legit didn't feel ok with my new schedule until Thursday. When I got home at 11:40pm and realized I wasn't dead, I thought... I guess I could get used to this. Do I want to? Still not sure.
Twice this week I also had that "Devil Wears Prada" moment when you have to take something from one office to the other and everything that could delay you happens. Oh you know... the subway closes for construction, option 2 subway stops between two stations, and a taxi is out of the question because all the roads by the office are closed for the Super Bowl crap which has made that area an amusement park full of tourist without a care in the world... AKA they don't care that you have somewhere to be and you need to be there fast so you can get back to your Excel file in the other office. Jeez! Anyway, as I was stuck in the subway for the second time trying to get back, I started thinking about that part in the movie where Anne Hathaway has to go get an early edition of Harry Potter or something and started laughing to myself, which led to some priceless staring.
Ok... so on Friday we ended up going back to work from the office on Times Square, so it was subway time again! I was actually feeling ok, which was a lot better than every other morning. Maybe, it was the idea that soon I'd be back in bed... soonish... right? Anyway more work awaited me at the office, I did make it home before 11, and I did pass out on my bed.
Saturday was like recovering from the flu or something. I still can't figure out if I'm getting sick or just exhausted. Either way... I slept way too late and lounged. Went to pick up some dry cleaning, dropped some more off, I shopped for ingredients to bake cookies for the office, and then lounged around watching Sex and the City with my roommate. Funny. I'm aware.
Conclusion... if my currently life was portrayed in a movie...Now, who would go watch that movie? No one, and that is why my life is NOT a cheesy movie. But I do love it anyway! I wouldn't watch it, but I love living it... so I guess it works! A couple of extra sleeping hours wouldn't hurt though... right?
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