The Pink Shoe Diaries

well, i have mostly settled into my new digs and with it comes an unexpected sense of relief. i am just plain RELIEVED to be out of my parents house..which is a feeling I could not have anticipated. I went back today: and since Peter was at the Pats game, Dad is in France and Mom is in South Africa: i had the house to myself and as I walked through, I felt almost like laughing...although this may be mostly because the house is a total shithole since my mom left Peter alone there about 2 weeks ago and i am glad not to be the one who has to unearth it from its piles of pizza boxes and beer bottles when Jacqueline returns in 1 week. My new place may be small, and my closets somewhat inadequate...but i feel more at home here than I have in my parents' home in years. It's very weird.

anywho, work is crazed. we had our first office meeting since i joined the team on Friday and it was more of a "one-on-one in public" than anything else. my boss, JB, just went around in a circle and told us each, in no certian terms, what we need to improve on. My feedback was as follows:

positive: "you have a wonderful phone demeanor"
negative: "you really have to get a better memory".

excuse me? i actually interrupted the "meeting" to jokingly say "i'm pretty sure that i'm stuck with the memory that i have unless you plan on sending me to some kind of seminar". but he was dead serious. my memory, it turns out, is inadequate and it would be better for all parties involved if i just grew a better one.

it's funny because i KNOW that i have a terrible short term memory. and in fact, in my job interview i told JB expressly that when he asked me "what is your biggest professional weakness". unless what you are talking about means something personally to me, then i will most likely have no recollection of it the next day. and since none of what goes on at work involves me personally...i have taken to keeping a word document open on my desktop on which i type up phone conversation notes, important dates, things to be remembered etc... so when someone asks me "did you talk to Carol R. yesterday?" i can look quickly at my word doc. and see that yes, i did talk to Carol and then i can even tell you what we talked about. but if i dont have my word document...then finding out this information would be impossible. In any case, i found it funny that waiting 3 seconds for me to look on my computer is soooo inconvenient. Given the fact that i speak to roughly 50 people a day....JB should be glad i am trying to be organized about it at least. hmph.

so aside from trying to grow a bigger, better memory...things are good. i got my hair cut yesterday and against all odds it came out FABULOUS. i mean, while Joanna was cutting, i was pretty sure that i was heading towards Mulletville. and I even spoke up and reminded her that a mullet was not EXACTLY what i was looking for. not that there is anything wrong with that. but, i mean, there is.