ASAP Requests

So this morning at work, my department received a request from someone asking for two e-mails to be created. However, this person failed to fill out our request form (even though this is a required step) and just sent an e-mail instead. He also managed to demand it be done ASAP (on the form, it explicitly states "please do not put ASAP"), and should be sent out by this afternoon at the very latest. Normally, I would have gotten very upset with this "request" and told him that he needs to fill out a form, but I did not have anything else that absolutely needed to get done by this afternoon, so I worked on it.

When I passed it over to him for his approval, I informed him of what the standard protocol is for a request like this. He responded by telling me that this was the soonest he could get in the request and that he just found out about it this morning. The best part of this story: the promotion we produced the materials for only runs from today (Thursday) through Sunday. So this guy is trying to tell me that he found out about a four day promotion on the first day of it? I doubt it.

Drunk Pumpkin

I realize that we are still a couple weeks away from Halloween, but I couldn't resist.




Someone sent me this picture via e-mail the other day, and I thought it was hysterical. I've seen some pretty funny pumpkin carvings, but this one really got me laughing. I later did a Google search and found that this carving idea is not uncommon, but this is the first one that I saw so I decided to post it.

Question of the Week

Like I mentioned in my last question of the week, please feel free to voice your opinion by posting opinions to this question. Or feel free to post about any other questions or answers you may have for any topic, and I will gladly address those issues.

Would you rather be underpaid for a job where your work is greatly appreciated and praised, or make more money than you probably should be while your work is largely under appreciated?

One and a Half Alarm Chili

I enjoy cooking every once in a while, and have really grown to enjoy making chili. I made a pretty good batch two weeks ago, but it wasn't quite spicy enough. So I made some more this afternoon and decided to put two jalapeño peppers in with my normal mix of ingredients to spice things up a bit. As it turns out, two jalapeños is more than enough, and may even be too much for my liking, especially since I added the entire pepper (including the seeds, which are apparently what makes them so hot).

My only concern with this whole situation is that I now have at least a gallon of chili, and Nicole is only interested in eating a little bit since it's so hot. So needless to say, my system will have some issues to deal with over the next week or so.

The Big Time

For some unknown reason, I was invited by my work to attend a charity event (I am technically still an intern, despite the fact that I do more work than half the people in my department, but that's another story for another day). It was held at the Hard Rock Hotel, and there were several Bears players in attendance, such as Lance Briggs and Kyle Orton. Even though the guy who was hosting the event(the Bears place kicker, Robbie Gould) was not the best public speaker, Nicole and I still had a good time. Another highlight was a live performance by county musician James Otto (I am a huge country fan, so yes, that was a highlight).

I tell this story not to namedrop and say I met all these people, because I didn't. I just looked from afar and prayed that I might get into some type of accident with one of them where I would be able to file a lawsuit. But moreover, attending this event really instilled the desire to become a successful person, so that someday, I might be able to get into a bidding war to pay $1700 for a dinner for five.

And no, the dinner was not going to be held in the White House...just some average restaurant in downtown Chicago.

Cab Drivers Should Pay More Attention

Sorry for the hiatus...it seems as though I was temporarily suspended. They suspected I was a spam blog, although I'm not sure why.

So I got hit by a cab yesterday...literally got hit by a car and fell onto the hood. Luckily, the car only had minor damage on the front end. Oh, and I was OK too. So next time you're out driving at night, don't just "go for it" and assume there is no one outside walking around, even though it may be pouring rain. Because surely, there will be some genius out there, like myself, who is going to cross the street no matter what when that little white man on the stop light says it's OK to cross.

Bad Idea

I must start off by saying that I have greatly appreciated all posts to my blog, and encourage more comments in the future. There is no such thing as a bad comment.

Just as I suspected, my teacher is unreasonable. I managed to finish the paper and prepare for the test last night and felt pretty good about the situation going into it. I take back what I said about how writing the paper wouldn't help me study--it did. However, I stand by my claim that my teacher is unreasonable (and despite some comments, she is not progressive or full of good ideas). Two people finished the test in the hour and 15 minute period. I was the fourth person to leave the room (after an hour and 20 minutes), leaving 35 other students writing frantically just to throw down something on every question. There were 20 multiple choice questions, 20 short answer questions, and 2 essays. I'm not exaggerating.

In all honesty, I feel pretty good about the test and am sure that I did fairly well on it. But I'm convinced my teacher just has no concept of reality, and doesn't understand the everyday responsibilites of today's college student.

Test Day

I am going to try not to talk about school too much in my blog, but seeing as how I'm a student, I find it inevitable. I have my second midterm tomorrow in organizational communication--no big deal. The kicker is that the professor has decided to make a paper due on the same day as the midterm. I find this slightly unreasonable, but more importantly, that's just uncalled for. Why would she think that's a good idea (And I know that you all are thinking that it will probably help me study for the test to do the assignment. Not true.)?