Sometimes, I swear this stuff only happens to me, yet I'm sure others must experience it also. I just seem to get a lot of it. Anywho, here is the latest "did that really just happen to me?" moment.
I work in downtown Raleigh on Boylan Ave. It's not in the "heart" of downtown, but out on the skirts near housing developments. The company I work for is mostly housed in a large brick building, except for my department, the Planning Department. We are in the tiny old house behind the big brick building. We are across the street from some very shady apartments where people have been arrested and have proven themselves crazy. People love to randomly walk into our building. And since the front office is empty, they normally get pretty far before I can accost them (oh and I do). We've had drunks, people selling memberships to golf clubs, etc. but today, I experienced something new. A non-english speaking Asian lady walked into my building today calling, "hewwo!" and telling me that she drove here from Goldsboro and was trying to find the JC Penney. Did I know where it was? (The nearest JC Penney is in North Hills which takes much more explaining than I care to do). I told her that she needed to go to a gas station to ask, that they would be able to help her more than I. What does she do? She whips out her hand drawn map and shows me where she was supposed to get off the beltline. I should probably mention at this point that she has on a gold head-band, bright purple cami/leotard, and those genie-in-a-bottle pants. It's taken everything to keep a straight face while talking to this woman, but I lose the battle when I tell her she needs to go to gas station she jumps up and says, "No! You know where JC Penney be! Gas station told me wrong! They told me this circle!" She had driven a circle around downtown and ended up at my office.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
I Like to Keep it Interesting...
Yesterday was my one year anniversary with the Wooten Company. WOO! (no pun intended). It's officially been a year since I left Fayetteville and moved to Raleigh, on my own, not really knowing anyone. I have gone from living in Lil Harlem/Lil Mexico, situated slightly behind the Wal-Mart in Garner (should have been my first sign) to living in a cute, cozy, and centrally located apartment in Cary. When I say centrally located I mean that I'm less than five minutes from a DSW, Ulta, World Market, Target, Stein Mart, Marshall's, and Borders, and less than two minutes from a Starbucks with a drive-thru. Be jealous!
I have also gone from the very definition of anti-social to having a social calendar that makes me tired just thinking about it. I've had more people over at my new apartment in the three weeks that I have lived there than I did the entire 11 months that I lived in Lil Mexico/Harlem. Now that my life is back to the normal Sarah-level of craziness, I have decided to throw yet one more iron into the oven: grad school!
When I graduated in December 2007, I was convinced I wanted to go to school for publishing. And that pipe dream is still very much alive. I applied to one grad school (there are only four in the country that actually have a publishing program) in Boston, Emerson College. It is very prestigious and well-known for it's publishing program. I pretty much half-assed my application, bombed the math portion of the GRE, and didn't get in (shocker, I know). I wasn't really that surprised, although, I was sad. I decided to try and get a job, work for a year, and figure out what I wanted to do. So, a year and half later, here I am, studying for the GRE and working on yet another grad school application. This time, it's for a Master's in Public Administration, concentration in non-profit organizations, at NC State University. I will be working full-time while going to school at night. If I am accepted, I will start in January 2010. I'm pretty sure that I'll have no life, will be crazy busy (nothing new), but I really think that the non-profit world is where I want to be.
As of today, my GRE test is on Saturday. I'm retaking it to see if I can do any better on the math portion. Applications are due by November 1; I'm hoping to have mine in by the first week in October. I already have one person willing to write a recommendation and hopefully I'll have two more soon. It's all becoming real and it's scaring the crap out of me, but I'm getting really excited at the same time. It will make my life crazy, but like I said, I do like to keep it interesting.
I have also gone from the very definition of anti-social to having a social calendar that makes me tired just thinking about it. I've had more people over at my new apartment in the three weeks that I have lived there than I did the entire 11 months that I lived in Lil Mexico/Harlem. Now that my life is back to the normal Sarah-level of craziness, I have decided to throw yet one more iron into the oven: grad school!
When I graduated in December 2007, I was convinced I wanted to go to school for publishing. And that pipe dream is still very much alive. I applied to one grad school (there are only four in the country that actually have a publishing program) in Boston, Emerson College. It is very prestigious and well-known for it's publishing program. I pretty much half-assed my application, bombed the math portion of the GRE, and didn't get in (shocker, I know). I wasn't really that surprised, although, I was sad. I decided to try and get a job, work for a year, and figure out what I wanted to do. So, a year and half later, here I am, studying for the GRE and working on yet another grad school application. This time, it's for a Master's in Public Administration, concentration in non-profit organizations, at NC State University. I will be working full-time while going to school at night. If I am accepted, I will start in January 2010. I'm pretty sure that I'll have no life, will be crazy busy (nothing new), but I really think that the non-profit world is where I want to be.
As of today, my GRE test is on Saturday. I'm retaking it to see if I can do any better on the math portion. Applications are due by November 1; I'm hoping to have mine in by the first week in October. I already have one person willing to write a recommendation and hopefully I'll have two more soon. It's all becoming real and it's scaring the crap out of me, but I'm getting really excited at the same time. It will make my life crazy, but like I said, I do like to keep it interesting.
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