Yesterday I couldn't be bothered to find the remote control to my TV. So (among other things) I watched two straight hours of
Murder She Wrote. Eventually I switched from A&E to Bravo and caught three episodes of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy the new Boy Meets Boy and a rerun of West Wing. I had completely forgotten that Moira Kelly was on the 99-00 season! It was quite a revelation.

I was hard pressed this morning to explain to Garth and his friends what was so great about Queer Eye. They were dissmissing it as way too wholesome.

My friends from NY seem a little amazed that my commute to work is 12 miles and yet all within the city of Chicago. Not even extreme parts of the city either.
Someone also asked me why I chose to live up North instead of in Hyde Park. I think you have to have lived in Hyde Park for 4 years to understand the real need to move to the northside upon graduation. Although there are a fair number of people who stay in HP forever, but I'm not quite of their temperment.

In other news, I may get to keep "my" dining room table after all. Which is very exciting. I'm now regretting dissassembling it last weekend, but I think reassembling it is a much better option than having to actually purchase a dining room table that matches the rest of my furniture so well. I'm going to call its true owner, in response to her message saying she was thinking about letting me keep it, and offer to buy it. Which is, I think, the adult thing to do.

I thought, with drama camp over and all, I was done with crazy parents (except for the 2 who still owe me money). Nope. The most talkative crazy parent just stopped by the office to say hi. She brought the kids too. Oi.

Having my boss out of town for 6 weeks has its pros and cons. Here's the list so far:

Pros:
-No one knows (or cares) when I get to work.
-I can make decisions without running them by her.
-I can surf the web (or post to this blog) during slow times without feeling guilty.
-There is no danger of the Dixie Chicks being blasted at decibels to kill small children from her office.
-Traffic to the suite is drastically reduced.

Cons:
-I need her approval (take that in several ways, please).
-I have to explain to people that she really won't be back until Sept. 22nd.
-I had no one to call in sick to. Which meant no one knew where I was yesterday. (I sent an email to co-workers, but none of them were in my building except Chloe, who didn't come in until the afternoon. Reasonably, since she's part-time).
-When I need her to make decisions, she's harder to reach.
-I have to send way more email.
-my workload is slightly increased since people who have questions for her ask me instead.

I'll keep updating this if I come up with more.

Finally, planning parties is really fun. Maybe I should switch careers. This sentiment may seem odd coming from me since I so rarely have parties, but planning and organizing parties is totally different from actually hosting them. And, come to think of it, a lot of what I do at work is event management of some sort or another anyway...hmmm...

I've just realized that my friend who moved to LA is now officially 'people'. As in, "I'll have my people call your people." She's someone's people!! Or, one of someone's people. And gets to talk to celebrities (or at least their 'people'). Hee. I find this endlessly amusing.
- posted by Heidi @ 4:32 PM