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4:50 AM - Rambling On
Sep. 6th, 2008 04:54 amYep. The time when I've decided that my alarm clock will be set for... at least it was until a week before vacation and this past week when I returned from vacation. I was rolling out of bed mostly before the external alarm was set - did that yesterday too in fact, though it was for a 6:55 AM external then. Maybe my body/mind is readjusting back from the pre-vacation slouch/slacker/sloth mode I was adopting. That included not reading my f-list or posting btw.
Funny email exchange with my boss:
Me: BTW - R said "Hi" yesterday when he called us...
S: I give, what's BTW?
Me: First LOL now BTW? We seriously need to get you an internet acronym dictionary. FYI: BTW means "by the way."
Note that he uses FYI all the time in his email messages.
S: What can I say? IAOOT.
I am out of touch.
- It's good he put in the meaning of his acronym because that's a new one on me. Not sure if I would've just pinged him back or Google'd it first though.
I got a lot of compliments on my shirt as well, which was a nice touch on the day. It had sparklies on it - which attracted them like magpies and other shiny-object-collective corvids it seems. I've been sidling up to the idea of getting (*Gasp!*) more "feminine" clothing... You know, skirts and dresses. It's like my mind has decided that the dress code at work is an excuse to do this or something. Actually, with sitting in a chair all day (well, for the most part, I do get up to go to various parts of the building semi-frequently) which can heat up pretty quick and well, a skirt/dress would be infinitely cooler to wear than pants. And since none of my choices will be form-fitting I'm going to switch over to (here's the TMI point people) boxers and/or boxer briefs which are infinitely more comfortable and come with the added bonus of zero chafing. Surprisingly, women's foot wear is a very flexible item, dressy sandals are allowed. Hell. Nice capris/gauchos are allowed too.
Have I mentioned how much I like this place? Yeah.
Was involved in getting another deal approved (this one for $6.5MM) on which I got compliments from the Credit Committee on the Industry/Market/Product analysis I wrote as an exhibit to the main document. Also got a "congrats" type pat-on-the-back email from my boss. Yay!
Got tapped for a special project today - I'm going to probably take over keeping the "Protein Complex Producers" Industry benchmark spreadsheet updated. I know Excel gurus out there probably already know this, but... I found out how to create a chart using data scattered all over the spreadsheet! That CTRL button really does give you control sometimes. When I first learned how to do this, my teachers all told me the data columns and rows all had to be adjacent to each other in order to create a graph/chart. When did they "fix" this issue? And that was just ONE of the many super things I did to impress the old-school man of a loan officer. He's come to rely on me to follow through and expedite these kinds of little "missions" as he refers to them. What can I say, his son is in special forces so he slips in a lot of military lingo here and there. I get it. Hooah! For those of you more up to date on military slang... it has been a long time since I used the "Hooah" and I never knew how it was spelled or if it has an acknowledged spelling. Am I getting it right?
Apparently we are entering our "slam season" part of the year too. This may or may not mean another long dry spell for me posting, with intermittent f-list reading/replying phases. I don't know yet. All I do know is that I'm glad I cranked out the three annual audits I did right before vacation instead of leaving them until after. Hot Damn.
Funny email exchange with my boss:
Me: BTW - R said "Hi" yesterday when he called us...
S: I give, what's BTW?
Me: First LOL now BTW? We seriously need to get you an internet acronym dictionary. FYI: BTW means "by the way."
Note that he uses FYI all the time in his email messages.
S: What can I say? IAOOT.
I am out of touch.
- It's good he put in the meaning of his acronym because that's a new one on me. Not sure if I would've just pinged him back or Google'd it first though.
I got a lot of compliments on my shirt as well, which was a nice touch on the day. It had sparklies on it - which attracted them like magpies and other shiny-object-collective corvids it seems. I've been sidling up to the idea of getting (*Gasp!*) more "feminine" clothing... You know, skirts and dresses. It's like my mind has decided that the dress code at work is an excuse to do this or something. Actually, with sitting in a chair all day (well, for the most part, I do get up to go to various parts of the building semi-frequently) which can heat up pretty quick and well, a skirt/dress would be infinitely cooler to wear than pants. And since none of my choices will be form-fitting I'm going to switch over to (here's the TMI point people) boxers and/or boxer briefs which are infinitely more comfortable and come with the added bonus of zero chafing. Surprisingly, women's foot wear is a very flexible item, dressy sandals are allowed. Hell. Nice capris/gauchos are allowed too.
Have I mentioned how much I like this place? Yeah.
Was involved in getting another deal approved (this one for $6.5MM) on which I got compliments from the Credit Committee on the Industry/Market/Product analysis I wrote as an exhibit to the main document. Also got a "congrats" type pat-on-the-back email from my boss. Yay!
Got tapped for a special project today - I'm going to probably take over keeping the "Protein Complex Producers" Industry benchmark spreadsheet updated. I know Excel gurus out there probably already know this, but... I found out how to create a chart using data scattered all over the spreadsheet! That CTRL button really does give you control sometimes. When I first learned how to do this, my teachers all told me the data columns and rows all had to be adjacent to each other in order to create a graph/chart. When did they "fix" this issue? And that was just ONE of the many super things I did to impress the old-school man of a loan officer. He's come to rely on me to follow through and expedite these kinds of little "missions" as he refers to them. What can I say, his son is in special forces so he slips in a lot of military lingo here and there. I get it. Hooah! For those of you more up to date on military slang... it has been a long time since I used the "Hooah" and I never knew how it was spelled or if it has an acknowledged spelling. Am I getting it right?
Apparently we are entering our "slam season" part of the year too. This may or may not mean another long dry spell for me posting, with intermittent f-list reading/replying phases. I don't know yet. All I do know is that I'm glad I cranked out the three annual audits I did right before vacation instead of leaving them until after. Hot Damn.
