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Super Wonderful Fatastic Awesomeness

First and foremost, I want to welcome back my best bud Billy. After a months stay in Beijing, he has made it safely to and from. I’m glad you are back and well, and I can’t wait to hear those small, little side moments you’ve must have had over yonder where the summers are humid and the food and is good.

This weekend has been absolutely spectacular. I’m just happy. You know? Thursday was just a riot. I just had fun kickin’ it with the boys and doing things I won’t do probably next year. Even though people call me fratty and what not, I’m okay with that. I’m justifying my obnoxiousness with the excuse of living through the college experience. That statement alone probably contradicts a lot of what I want to exemplify to others, but it also seems like one of those moments where it just happens that way. Whether that makes any sense at all, it does to me and that’s that.

Back tracking a little, my Friday sucked, but then my manager changed all that. It started off by consuming all of my energy from the repercussions of last night. I was still drunk going to work, but, I still made it though the day. After a days worth of sobering up, I met my manager for my midterm review. I thought okay, it can’t be that bad, I mean, it has only been five weeks, so how much could they actually say? To my surprise.. a LOT. In the best way though, let me tell you. I don’t know if I can maintain my modesty from this point, but the information is just too exciting. Apparently, I am doing exceptionally well. I haven’t talked to my other intern buddies, but the time spent with my manager, I felt like a king! So far I am exceeding all the expectation laid out my my colleagues and mentor. In addition, there are six competencies that are examined through my duration with Safeco. As it turns out, other co-workers and business partners have sent emails to my manager on their own accord to give praise to me. I was shocked! I was so stunned at the feedback that I didn’t know what to say. He continued to say that normally these competencies are left blank for the midterm review, but because of all the responses, that four of the six were filled. Things are definatley looking out with Safeco. Yay~ I do however want to talk to the others and wonder how theirs went. These are all very smart people and I wouldn’t be surprised if all of them had great reviews.

Friday night was beer pong. I didn’t participate because I was still hurting from Thursday night. I did however get to babysit a person and make sure she was okay to go to sleep without throwing up everywhere. Luckily, she kept it all in the toilet. That’s awesome compared to this other girl going at it in out in the hall way garbage can. I hate cleaning that shit mind you. Fortunately for the house, there is a lot to gain than withstand put up with that keeps me here. Saturday though was great. I got a free Green Tea Lemonade courtesy of Starbucks thanks to the Seattle City Lights and the U-Village’s power outage. Twice! Marvelous. Reading in the nice weather, free drinks and just relaxing. Then dinner with the father just made the rest of the night a great finale to my Saturday. I learn a lot from my dad still. Though we have out our differences with perspectives on certain topics, I listen. The points be he brings to the table are ones that I would not have thought of or include. In fact, it is refreshing to hear a side of things that actually make an arguement and an arguement.

Sunday was by far the best day of the weekend. I got to work for the first time at the Banana Republic (BR). More excitingly though was the event afterwork. Jillians for Patrick’s (ex-manager) going away party was sweet! I love my co workers. They are such beautiful people in so many ways. Drinking beer (provided by my BR buddies), playing pool, eating burgers, taking pictures and just having fun. Best times.

Okat well that’s all I can think of right now. I do however want to talk about my experience so far with my summer reading fad. I say fad because that shit will end once school starts. Sigh.

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Damn beers… I re-read my post and thought how much of an idiot I must sound with the grammatical errors and typos.