A "normal" week

Finally, a week where I should really have to work late, and I get to come home and have a little more free time in the evening, and where I can do things I've been neglectful of (such as blogging).

So yes, lets get to the major news. I've given notice to the worldwide leader. No, I don't have another job yet, but thankfully I'm in a career where freelancing is a viable option. I discovered shortly before I left for camp that there are jobs out there I'm totally qualified for that would give me about a 50% raise. That was the kick in the butt that made me decide that sticking around to the end of the year wasn't worth it, combined with the fact that I stopped getting lip service to my complaints made it clear that it was time for me to go. So September 7 is my last day....at least in marketing and sales.

Now I have to field the "what do you want to get into?" question. This is really hard, because I don't really care as long as I can play with and learn new programming languages, and that it is not in an ad sales environment. Whatever, it'll be nice to start regaining my soul. (I may be a dick, but that doesn't mean I don't have principles.) Now I just need to figure out how to stay motivated for another 2ish months.

Other news: Two weekends ago a one of my good friends from ND got married out in Chicago. The first night I was in the city, and started to lose some of my anti-Chicagoness. I'm still anti-Midwest, but I could probably deal with Chicago since I realized last weekend I probably have a better group of friends there than I do in NYC. The wedding itself was enjoyable, but it was kind of weird for me to see someone I spent so much time with during what can be argues as 4 of the most important years of anyone's life, grow up and get married. Now this is only the second wedding I've been to where I was friend's with one of the people getting married. The first one I went to was for someone a few years older than me and we weren't super close, so I was just kinda there and enjoyed the experience. This time though, I knew a lot more people there, and it was just weird to see someone I was really good friends with take that step. I think part of it for me is that marriage is so far away from where I am in life right now.

music: jesus jones - right here, right now

A month late, Part 2

Sorry about the delayed response. My life has been busy and has taken some interesting turns as of late. Details will come whenever I get around to posting again.

When I woke up the next morning (after like 4 hours of sleep) I actually debated going to the hotel gym and working out since I knew my friends had adjusted a little better to the local time (and were much drunker then i when we went to bed) to kill some time, but ended up deciding against and they managed to wake up not too long after me. We spent most of the day hanging out by the lazy river at the MGM Grand pool. It was pretty solid except for the few spots where I missed with the sunscreen.

Later in the afternoon we decided to go gamble. As a group its the worst we've ever done. I was the highpoint and ended up like $13. It just wasn't our day at the poker tables. After giving up the fruitless gambling, I think we chilled for a bit and then went out to the a club that night (I think it was the Jungle Room, but I don't remember completely because I'm doing this a month late.) I'm generally not one for clubs, but this wasn't too bad since there was a decent variety of music played, there was some occasional trapeze entertainment, and there were actually several people there i liked, which is usually not the case on those off days i end up in a club.

As the night wound down, we had some drunken munchies and decided to hit up McDonald's. About 6 spots ahead of us in line, some guys decided to be assholes and buy 99 Cheeseburgers. (99 because that's the max the computer would allow). This caused us to sit in line for 20 minutes as the late night crew churned out 99 cheeseburgers. I'm pretty sure half the line wanted to kick the crap out of them.

The next day was a low key day where we rented a cabana at the Palms and hung out by the pool. If you have enough people and the money, i highly recommend cabanas, particularly if you're sunburned and theres 100 degree desert heat. After a day of doing mostly nothing (which was very nice), we went out to see Cirque du Soleil that night. The one we saw was La Reve (sorry I can't find a good link) which was pretty much the most amazing set I've ever seen in my life. I HIGHLY recommend it next time anyone finds him or herself in Vegas.

After a I drink I parted ways with everyone and embarked on my red eye flight back to NY (since I had to work Monday). I was hoping to be tired enough to sleep all the way through. Unfortunately some idiot woman in front of who brought her cat on the plane, let it out of the carrier. This had the flight crew chasing this cat around the cabin for 15 minutes as those of us who had been sleeping were roused.

Anyway, I made it back to NY alive, and was at work by 10 am on Monday. A little late, but acceptable. I was actually surprised how well I functioned through the day, though I was pretty much exhausted by the time I made it home from work.

That's the end of the Vegas story. Hopefully this week will be light enough that I will get home and not be completely drained which will allow me to update everyone on the other interesting things going on in my life.