Brevity, insofar as possible

[petronia]

Friday: last day of work. Was taken out to lunch, given fountain pen as parting gift. Also, birthday cake. Not sure if this was to make up for not having thrown a birthday party on my behalf, or if someone thought it'd be funny. With this company you can never tell. ^^;

Don't think it's completely kicked in that I'm gone, or maybe just doesn't bear thinking about. Nearly as attached to work computer as I am to the people, lumbering CPU-beast though it is. orz

Saturday: wedding reception of classmate from CEGEP/McGill. Wore standard wedding outfit (i.e. high school graduation dress). Presence of smurfmatic and several people from the anime club/biochem circle, plus significant others. Bride's family from Taiwan, groom's family Chinese from Trinidad = lion dance followed by family member performing "The Moon Represents My Heart" followed by reggaeton remixes. This is actually the first Chinese wedding I have ever attended (third overall).

Sunday: attempted to shop for business-like shoes. Failed due to the fact that I'm developing a bunion on my left foot and now nothing fits. Bought gorgeous heeled suede ankle boots and brown Pumas instead, plus xx$ worth of cosmetic cream crap. In mid-twenties and already teeth/eyes/feet are failing big time, so must shore up ditches wherever possible. =_=

Also bought a laptop (Dell XPS M1330, Crimson Red). Nearly forgot to mention this as it's not going to ship for ages anyway. If I'd waited til today I could've gotten a free bag thrown in, apparently. OH WELLS.

Monday (today): first day of MBA Orientation Week. Surprisingly, did not keel over and die from listening to presentations and "networking"** for twelve hours straight. In fact I kind of enjoyed it. This might not turn out to be an unmitigated disaster. Wine and cheese appetizers were so delicious it was baffling, as good food is pretty much the last thing one ever expects from a wine and cheese.

(Exaggeration - there was a three-hour break, during which I slunk back home to Burnside basement and took a nap. May the loa of the network forever rain blessings on Burnside, still the ugliest building on campus! There are more comfortable couches now. XD)

** The great thing about "networking" in these 100-strangers-inna-room situations is that it's completely obvious and transparent. So no one gets miffed if after 5min conversation you start trying to make eye contact with other people and sidle off OOPS GOTTA GO REFILL MY GLASS, because everyone's doing the same thing. It's more like a party game than the party itself.

I'd been considering blogging about b-school, because I enjoy reading about what flisters working/studying in various specialties do with their day (plus, for those of you whose parents are bugging you to consider this path in 3-5 years while you're still sweating junior year calculus, I sure as heck wish I could've gotten inside info off LJ), but at this point it feels like it's going to take a heroic amount of energy. XD; Whenever possible, I suppose.

Comments

Advice to the podic impaired

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Shore up ditches by consulting a good orthopedist and getting proper shoe inserts. Or come my age you'll be seriously considering one of those motorized scooters.

Re: Advice to the podic impaired

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Will definitely get on that, methinks. My parents don't seem to have problems, but I have flat feet from birth and my grandmother's are in a horrendous state. ^^;

[pere-chan.livejournal.com]

Ankle boots do sound gorgeous, as does Crimson Red computer. Glad the business school thing is looking more exciting! Also, yay for campus naps! :)

[astrael-nyx.livejournal.com]

From what I glimpsed of the MBA lounge in Bronfman when I attended my BComm friend's graduation reception this year, I am superbly envious.

Bronfman's "wine and cheese" parties are levels above the wine and cheese parties in all the other faculties, so the excellent wine and cheese are probably not the exception, but the norm. The food at the BComm graduation reception was surprisingly very good -- chicken satay skewers, salmon pinwheels with cream cheese and dill, and lots of other little delicious goodies (hot food!) that Arts or Science grads never got (we got cold croissant sandwiches and "mimosas" made from lots of orange juice mixed with white wine).

Please do blog about b-school when you can. Sounds v. interesting, but only if you're not too tired.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

We had Thai shrimp, tomato/buffala crostinis, and... fig tapenade on cornmeal rounds. I was like, fig tapenade?

The lounge couches are highly nap-worthy. XD The wine-and-cheeses are up in the 6th-floor "executive suite", which seems to be the only part of the building that isn't chilly (but then McGill buildings are always chilly).

[astrael-nyx.livejournal.com]

...

...

...

...

...

Maybe I should reconsider an MBA on the basis of the food alone at a grad student welcome party. If you've fig tapenade (Was this with fresh figs or reconstituted dried ones? This sounds like an interesting recipe except it might end up quite costly if using fresh even though they're in season.) then one can only imagine what will be served when one say, scores a $50 million account for one's company.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

It wasn't fresh figs, but it was tasty. And yeah, it's all sort of... class differences in foodie-ism at work. ^^;;; The sad/obvious thing being of course that this was the first wine-and-cheese where I was too busy to pay any attention to the food, and in fact had eaten beforehand because I knew I wouldn't have time to do more than peck.

[absenceofmind.livejournal.com]

i would LOVE to hear about life in b-school. seriously.

i so want my bro to lion dance at his wedding. if i never get married, i'll sing the moon represents my heart (david tao remix?) at HIS. XD

[dipping_sauce]

Would that Lion Dance be related to the Lion Dance we saw at the Old Port when we went to see the fireworks?

Also, are you too busy this week to get together?

PS STOP SLEEPING IN BURNSIDE

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Yup, same idea. It's a trad Chinese thing.

I am sending out emails to everyone basically saying, nothing doing for the next two weeks, call me again in September. ^^;

[corneredangel.livejournal.com]

Don't think it's completely kicked in that I'm gone, or maybe just doesn't bear thinking about.

First *two weeks* after leaving my job, I kept expecting every other phone call to be from my boss, asking me this thing or that, or telling me to do something.

Scary(?) thing is, I would have, *right there and then*.

Anyways, welcome to grad school. Have fun.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

What gets me is that I'm probably not going to see my boss again! At least, for a pretty long time, unless we show up at a mutually invited party or something.

I have already annoyed everyone by hijacking all the activities and become famous for chugging a pint without flinching, Asian girl notwithstanding! ROCK SOLID SO FAR.

[analyse.livejournal.com]

I'm a business student, and yes, networking is so fun sometimes XD;; Please write about school if you can! I know how busy it can get (BBA x1000), but if you can this member of the peanut gallery will be quite happy. :D

also I just turned twenty and already I feel the obsessive urge to cleanse tone moisturise 20 times a day. My gay friends will probably chastise me for being 6 years late to the boat, but augh cosmetics, yes? ;____;

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I was reaaaally low-maintenance until a year or so ago, when I tried the whole moisturize-even-if-you-have-oily-skin advice and found that it works. ^^; Also, mud masks. So now every time I go to the pharmacy I seem to add another item to my daily routine. The latest is eye cream. XD

I will try to blog? At least, I will blog about it if it eats up my life to the point where I have nothing else to blog about, because I don't want to disappear off LJ. That's just lame.

[cerisier.livejournal.com]

For the record - I also recently ordered an M1330 in the same color and it shipped almost exactly a month before the predicted ship date. So you never know. XD;