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| In just one day I witnessed:
+ A homeless man on a segway
+ At least 10 cop cars block traffic in front of my apartment when one of the cop cars backed into a parked car trying to chase a car going the opposite direction.
+ 3 men on in 3 separate incidents make catcalls about my chest when I was wearing an unrevealing, heavy sweater - all within a 2 block walk to the corner store
+ A group of gay people take pictures in front of every rainbow they saw on the street (I live in the Castro - THE gay neighborhood of all gay neighborhoods) in anticipation of Pride Fest this Saturday
It's never boring here. The first, second, and fourth incidents I listed all happened in front of my apartment today. If I want entertainment in this town and I'm feeling really lazy, all I have to do is look out my window :).
I love San Francisco.
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| + making up after your first fight with your boyfriend EVER (after 6 months? Not too shabby) and realizing just how much you really, really love him and how lucky you are he loves you just as much
+being the last one to get in the door at a sold out show
+seeing a band in a small club right before they move up to sold out auditoriums
+any drink made with blueberry anything
+getting money from the ATM and realizing that even though you're unemployed, you're not completely broke (yet)
+meeting and dancing with some great people visiting from NY
+taking silly pictures with your friends
+drinking a cocktail made with Dr. Pepper at a white trash themed bar
+a turkey, egg, and cheese crepe hot and fresh at 2 am
+getting a ride home from my friends
Yeah. It's been a GREAT night. | | |
| Is ok. No, really, it's JUST OK.
I went into listening to it with mixed hopes. On one side, the jealous girl in me hoped it would suck because Scarlett Johansson already has a career as a gorgeous actress/model. The other side of me hoped I could prove the envious side of me wrong and get blown away by her talent.
The disappointment lies in the fact that I think her voice has great potential but lacks development. A lot of it I am sure a good vocal instructor could remedy in just a few lessons. It sounds almost like she kept the first recording of everything she did. I understand it's Tom Waits and he's known for his gruff voice, but you can't make an entire album of Tom Waits covers and do a half-assed job.
It's talent show battle of the bands quality, at best. I am left more disappointed now than I would have been if it had been a total bomb or a great success. | | |
| Tomorrow is Monday and I couldn't be grumpier. I've had this feeling all day. I didn't have time to laundry yesterday so I'm out of socks. Jason and I were running late. I felt like a blimp and couldn't find a shirt to wear under the dress I insisted on wearing. I wanted a breakfast burrito but we didn't have time to get breakfast. A million little things that normally would have rolled off my back piled on top of the rain cloud storming over my head and thundered down. Poor Jason. I really felt awful for being such a shit, but he seemed to understand. That time of the month. He got me a coffee and a cinnamon roll from the bakery on the corner while I had a private meltdown over my hair. Even when I'm feeling like a swarm of bees flew in my ear, he can make me swoon.
"You're like pizza," he told me.
Huh?
"Well there's great pizza that you love and can't get enough of, and then there's other pizza. Either way, you're happy having pizza, because even the worst pizza is still pizza, and that's better than no pizza at all."
I guess that makes him my ice cream sundae.
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| I am looking for a new job. It's only been 5 months at my current job, but as much as I absolutely love my company and believe in everything we're trying to acheive, I'm starting to feel like working in Sales is toxic to my overall well-being.
I can't sleep at night because I'm up all hours thinking and worrying about work. How can I reach my targets? What am I doing wrong? Why aren't more of my prospects closing? Do I even like what I'm doing?
If there is anything I've learned from this experience, it's that I have an intense need to feel important, or at the very least usefull to my company. Sales is driven by numbers, so when my numbers are lower than my monthly targets the way they have been the past two months, my personal confidence sinks below healthy targets as well. Every day I get on the elevator and head towards my car, I feel like a monkey could do accomplish the same if it just knew how to speak english.
The truth is, Sales has never been my passion. I don't think I've ever woken up a single day of my life and truly felt excited to cold call people and ask them for money. The product I sell is amazing. I just don't know if I want to sell it anymore.
I don't know what I'm going to do. If I don't find another job soon with a comparable pay structure, I'm going to get fired anyway. I know I'm toast, but I can't just leave without having something else lined up.
I just wish I knew what I wanted to do...and that there were plenty of positions open for me to pursue.
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