Monday, August 24, 2009

He says he doesn't like the way college "feels in his mouth"

Today was the first day of my internship...and as I sat there and edited my press release a few things came to mind that I forgot to address. The other day I used ChaCha to find out where to find the new school color Bud Light Cans. Response: Arrgh! Ur temporarily out of Qs. Txt WHYME to know why or you can always (and the text goes on to tell me where else I can contact. I was like, no, I won't do that. They are just trying to give me the run around, my Mexican friend, ChaCha. I started to wonder why ChaCha rejected so I texted, "WHYME?" Response: We're not singling you out! It's just that...(and it goes on to talk about how ChaCha is growing). You really let me down ChaCha- I still don't have the answer.

This morning I was helping my supervisor hang a calendar in my little office hub (pretty freaking awesome). I realize all of the sudden that my arms aren't that nice fresh smell when I usually lift them...I forgot to wear deoderant! My supervisor informs me we will be walking across campus soon- so to get ready...I am fearing that I will be the smelly intern. Luckily, someone somewhere was looking out for me and the person we were supposed to meet couldn't come- so I stayed frozen in the office all morning. Much to my surprise- I had a jazzy little office with a nice little desk. This desk had all sorts of things, rulers, pens, pencils, a new boyfriend (card board cut out of a man in a speedo- YES!) and PAPERCLIPS! That's right, UNCW, I don't need your stinkin' paperclips anymore- I have a whole cup at the "office" and the lady that is in charge of ordering office supplies told me if I ever needed anything else to let her know- MORE PAPERCLIPS PLEASE!

I went to the bathroom at the internship. I had meant to address this earlier when I used the bathroom at UNCW in the Fisher Center. There are toilet seat covers- legit toilet seat covers (If I knew how to upload pics from my phone I could post a picture of these said toilet seat covers and said boyfriend (cardboard cut out))...By the way- any suggestions for a name? I am leaning toward something super steamy like Carlos, Billy Joe, or Dwayne (just kidding!).
So back to the toilet seat covers- the middle flap falls down into the toilet- when you flush it it just pulls the cover down into the toilet. I thougth that was pretty neat.

LUNCH TIME! I didn't pack a lunch because I wanted to see how things played out. On my walk about 2 blocks from the parking deck (where I parked on the 6th level) I spotted 17th Street Deli. I walked over there for lunch, when I walked in it was an awkward forced order- so I ordered the first thing I saw some kind of club sandwich convieniently named after places in Wilmington (cute). I see that it comes with chips, but with no direction and no one else to see (I was the first of the lunch breakers) I just kind of sat down. I awkwardly sat down in front of the little side menu so when people came in they saw me trying to eat this three inch thick sub (with no chips might I add but- I didn't need them anyways).

Interesting idea- why is it when we go eat somewhere by ourselves for the first time its such an awkward phenomena. You don't want to ask questions because maybe you should know? If you had a friend though, the chips would come up in conversation and you could both ask- or just go grab chips...I don't know. Look- I am not really upset about the chips persay- but I am upset about paying 8$ for a sandwich that I could have made myself...damn not packing lunches.

After lunch- I wrote my first press release... I had to unbutton my black slacks...which helped in my day long debate on whether I should go to the gym or not- Obviously if you have to unbutton your pants you shouldnt A) Eat sandwiches and/or B) not go to the gym....unless you buy bigger pants and we all know what kind of downward spiral that begins.

After the gym I was having a conversation with my friend and I asked him why he didn't like college. He couldn't give me a straight answer. He said, "name something you don't like to eat, you just don't want to eat." And I of course made the obvious fat joke and then suddenly remembered how I hate raw meat. He asked, "why?" and I said, "because I hate the way it feels in my mouth." And he, trying to be ridiculously sassy says, "well I hate the way college feels in my mouth." Of course- this was funny...but the moral of the story is - he was trying to catch me, make fun of me for my answer but because I am super unpredictable- his joke failed. So be unpredictable and brand yourself (sorry all the books I am reading are about branding and PR). I also realized that my college experience wouldn't be the same without my sorority... It kind of made my college years for me.


Class tomorrow- I keep thinking nothing interesting is going to happen today and then behold- I forgot my deoderant. We will see what tomorrow brings.

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