Sickie

So yesterday was pretty miserable. I was sick as balls the entire day. I did the usual in work and was able to make it through the day without dying. The entire way home I was dreading our meeting with our advisers and decided to play "I'm sick so lets move it along" card. We got back and I tried looking as sick as possible for our meeting, which wasn't that hard. Our advisers said exactly what I thought they were going to say about our paper. Of course they're also things that can't be fixed until we complete the survey. So what's the use in talking about them? I have no idea. Conversation was slow and uninspiring, at one point Lemone said "Oh I'm usually braindead by this time at night." and all I was thinking was "Lady, that has nothing to do with the time." Finally after some coughing fits they showed some mercy and let us leave.

I went to global gossip afterwords and made a last ditch attempt at getting an internship. Luckily, I found out that Pratt & Whitney is still in the process of choosing interns and hasn't made any of its selections known yet. We'll see I guess. I also updated the spreadsheet while I was there so I wouldn't have to do it in work. The rest of the night I relaxed and tried not to die as I watch some awful Law and Order: SVU. I went to bed and woke up around 10am the next day to get ready for work.

I still felt really sick when I woke up this morning. I got ready though and headed for work. Luckily for me a tram broke down on the tracks in front of us and I was stuck for an hour while they got another tram to tow it away. So I got to work an hour late and immeadiately found out that Allison had screwed up again and called several regions without marking them and now we were getting angry responses. At this point we had probably 90 surveys left to conduct. I decided that I would dumb down my spreadsheet and put it online so I could supervise Allison's activities. She's dumb as a rock, her resume is false, she has the attention span of a puppy. If I had hired her, I would have ripped her a new one. Under the new system she knew she was being watched so she actually made phone calls and actually marked the sheet. It was a pain for me to update the master spreadsheet based on the online one but as the number of candidates left went down the easier it was. Allison left early because of her dumb kid, who I'm sure is a great addition to the world gene pool. Under the new system we completed 33 phone surveys during the course of the day. Even though Allison left halfway through the day, this was the most was had ever completed during one day by a margin of 7 surveys. So it was a productive day. We only have 65 surveys remaining to complete. Max and I decided that tomorrow will be Allison's last day and that we will keep John on until we finish the survey. That made my day. Plus for the first time in days I can breathe in without coughing up a lung. I think I might be getting better, which is good because I dunno how much more I could take.

Thanks for all the comments, I'll be sure to take the advise about the pictures. I hope you all enjoyed the survey, Steve definately had the best answers. Steve what's this about you working in New York all summer? Who's gonna help me make fun of Ben all summer? Who am I supposed to hang out with? Ryan!?!? Well, I will be turning 21 soon. I guess Mike and I will have to hang out more. Any ideas of what I can bring back for our basement aquarium/petting zoo/my mom's nightmare?