Time travel

This picture has nothing to do with this post.  I just have a hard time living without photo accompaniment.

I know people always say you should live your life without regrets.  Well piffel to those people, because I regret many many things.

Regret can be a good thing.  It can push you forward to do something else.  And that’s what it’s doing to me now.  So yay for regret!

If you had a time travel machine and could go back in time and convince yourself to change one thing, what would it be?  I would tell myself to get a degree in economics.  But no matter, I think I’ll just get a PhD in that later.  Now onto the MBA first.

And a hot tip?  If you start to hear more bad things about Greece in the news I would just go ahead and trade any of those Euro’s you’re sitting on for dollars.  Maybe Canadian dollars.

Little People

My hotel has a small collection of chairs for little people in the lobby.  I find this quite amusing.  My managers claim they are for “children” but I think they are only saying that to avoid some kind of discrimination case.

I just can’t wait for Peter Dinklage or Verne Troyer to come stay here!

First Thanksgiving Away

This year marked my first Thanksgiving that was not spent at home with my family.  I was working.  I wish I could have been home.  I want one of those jobs where the office is always closed on holidays.

When I Grow Up

I’m at a point right now where I don’t really know what I’m doing.  I wouldn’t call it lost, and I don’t think I need soul searching of any kind.  What I need is a kick in the right direction, geographically and professionally.  And I have faith I’ll get it soon.  In fact, I’m quite content to wait it out until the right opportunity presents itself.

But really, I just want to be Sandra Rinomato when I grow up.  So that means I should move to Toronto, get my real estate license, and buy lots of different suits.

Then maybe one day I’ll have my own Property Virgins-type show.  It could happen.

In the meantime… someone hire me!

Oh, what a lovely Christmas!

I had a wonderful Christmas.  My most favorite gift is my new pair of Nashville Predators pajama pants.

I haven’t been posting here often because I have been incredibly busy planning this.  If you happen to be in the Knoxville area for New Year’s Eve, please come by and see what I have worked so hard on.  I have 4 more days of very hard work before this happens, and I’m just taking a deep Yuletide breath before I finish.

Also, I graduated college two weeks ago.  I don’t really know what I am doing with my life once I am done with this job next month, and that’s okay.

New job

Me?  I work downtown.

It’s been two weeks, and I am not yet tired of saying that.  Today on my lunch break I walked to the bank, then to Subway.  Delicious Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki!  This is the life.  If I didn’t work downtown, I would have had to drive to obtain such a sweet sandwich.  What a horror that would have been!

So yeah, I work downtown.

To-do, tah done!

  1. renew driver’s license  I am a licensed driver again!
  2. pay parking ticket  I am no longer in trouble with the city!
  3. find gainful employment  I start my new job on Monday!
  4. buy a parking pass for school  Wow this was expensive!
  5. buy groceries  Hello, Ramen!
  6. unpack my stuff  New room looks good!
  7. figure out how to still graduate in December  Consider me done December 13th!

Yeah.  All done.  I should also mention that every single one of these items was completed by Wednesday afternoon.

Unfinished

Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow?  That appears to be my motto this summer.

Today I head back to work after two days off.  I did plenty, PLENTY!!–  I tell you, in these past two days.  But I’m looking around my room this morning thinking back to Tuesday where I said “well, I’m about to have two whole days off, I’m sure I will have time to clean this, read some more of my book, clean my uniform for work, and solve the global energy crisis before I have to get back to work on Friday.”

Did a single one of those things happen?  Neg-uh-tive.

I was far too busy biking, playing kickball, drinking beer while listening to a band practice, forcing a friend to go for a 3 mile run with me, baking cupcakes, babysitting twin girls, AND… sleeping.

The laundry, the still unpacked suitcases… I’ll get around to it.  Tomorrow.

When People Stop Being Polite

I am completely freaking out about not having a constant source of internet access this summer.  I mean, how in the world am I going to be able to watch the next episode of The Bachelorette?  Yeah, did I mention that I don’t even know if there will be a television or not.

I feel like I’m going to be in the Martha’s Vineyard season of The Real WorldSeven four strangers, picked to live in a house, have their lives taped, work together… you get the idea.

I’ll probably even make that obligatory first night phone call to my best friend from home and tell them all my first impressions on everyone in the house.  This being after we all go out to the bars on the first night and end up back at the house naked in the hot tub.

Kidding.

My best spot

I’ve been prematurely researching places I might want to move to when I graduate this December. I took an online quiz at findyourspot.com and here are the top 24 places best suited for me:

  1. Hartford, Connecticut
    - you guys… the insurance capital of THE WORLD!
  2. Worcester, Massachusetts
  3. Providence, Rhode Island
  4. Portland, Oregon
  5. New Haven, Connecticut
  6. Little Rock, Arkansas
  7. Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  8. Albuquerque, New Mexico
  9. Baltimore, Maryland
  10. Salem, Oregon
  11. Fayetteville, Arkansas
  12. Charleston, West Virginia
  13. Chicago, Illionois
  14. Eugene, Oregon
  15. Corvallis, Oregon
    - This is a cool name, yes?
  16. Cincinnati, Ohio
  17. Boston, Massachusetts
  18. Sheboygan, Wisconsin
    - HELL YES, I want to move to Sheboygan.
  19. Knoxville, Tennessee*
  20. Carlisle, Pennsylvania
  21. Madison, Wisconsin
    - I was totally talking to Maura about moving to Madison today.
  22. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
  23. Medford, Oregon
  24. Danbury, Connecticut

So of course this list did not satisfy me in the least. I mean seriously… where is Indianapolis? I need me some Peyton Manning. But who knew I would be so apt to living in Oregon? Thankfully, the website gives you the option of changing your answers, which I did, and then I got this list… I’ve struck a line through places that have no NHL team. I’ve bolded the places I would actually move to.

  1. Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  2. Worcester, Massachusetts
  3. Hartford, Connecticut
  4. Providence, Rhode Island
  5. New Haven, Connecticut
  6. Chicago, Illinois
  7. Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota
  8. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  9. Albuquerque, New Mexico
  10. Toledo, Ohio
  11. Carlisle, Pennsylvania
  12. Boston, Massachusetts
  13. Baltimore, Maryland
    - I’m counting the Capitals for this one.
  14. Cleveland, Ohio
  15. Indianapolis, Indiana
    - I think Peyton makes up for the lack of hockey
  16. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  17. Cincinnati, Ohio
  18. Portland, Oregon
  19. Denver, Colorado
  20. Columbus, Ohio
  21. St. Louis, Missouri
  22. Little Rock, Arkansas
  23. Knoxville, Tennessee*
  24. Detroit, Michigan
    - Great hockey, but hell no!

*I live here now… WTF? Get off the list, K-town!

Now that I’ve narrowed the field to four places, here they are in order of preference:

  1. Indianapolis
  2. Minneapolis
  3. Philadelphia
  4. Pittsburgh

Places I am considering that did not show up on the list:

  1. Lexington, Kentucky
  2. Ithaca, New York
  3. Austin, Texas
  4. Phoenix, Arizona

So where should I move?

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