Connecting People one packing peanut at a time

So today officially was my first day of my second week on "may term" a work study program i previously described that seemed to me was filled with good creative energy, loving of my "hip" ideas and gossip gossip gossip. Wow was i wrong. Today i was accompanied by dear sweet painstakingly naive Emily. Our duties involved packing, shipping, billing, repacking because we obviously did it wrong in the first place because two 18 year girls still dewy eyed with prospective futures should know that we never ship to Robert Cohen, how to fax something properly, and that a fed ex sticker mistake costs the company $60! I found that last one out the hard way...whoops! Anyways what i have learned from this threatening oh wait educating experience is our boys in brown have their work cut out for them, there are so many people in the world that have the same taste in interior home decor and also how to properly re-fill the stapler. Quite rewarding. I think i need a drink.**
** And by drink i meant large scoop of vanilla ice cream~!

Working Girl

Now i am no Melanie Griffith, mainly because this isn't the 1988 classic film, this is my life. Rather than climbing the social and political standings of the stock market i am ready and equip to learn first hand what is like to own your own business. What i have learned in the first few days:

• Be in the know of all the latest "celeb" gossip (i.e. who's going to win American Idol, Did Jessica Simpson and John Mayer split?, what will happen tonight on Lost)
• Pretend like you understand every situation co-workers have been in (i.e. "oh yeah i can totally relate to your child support struggle with your cheating bitch of an ex husband....NOT!)
• Master the art of folding papers hot dog style in thirds
• Avoid paper cuts from the above task
• Swear like a sailor! (Apparently your vocabulary only gets raunchier with age!)
• Dress ridiculously trendy to ensure maximum compliment level each day

By remembering all of this you should be able to make it on your own in the business world, or at least manage yourself at the communal coffee pot!

Makes me Wonder

I am a really trusting person. Not like just trusting the bank statement you got in the mail or the expiration date on your milk carton but really truly over the top trusting in every aspect of the word. I have many close relationships in my life that i care greatly about however i have recently come to notice a pattern in the interactions of these relations. I feel that i am giving everything to these people, i am all in, i am going big or going home, only realize that everyone else is holding a little something back. Is this common? Does everyone hold back? Did i miss the memo? And why? Some of these people i have known my entire life, i feel more comfortable with them than i do with myself sometimes yet i have begun to realize that maybe i don't know them hardly at all. Maybe the things that they hold back from me are those of greatest importance. Maybe there are things that we just aren't supposed to know. Because by merely standing a few feet back i can keep myself from getting too close