Work

So, today was a pretty exciting day at work. Very unexpectedly, I found out that I am being promoted to manager, retroactive to August 1! I knew promotions were going on right now, but I thought I wasn't eligible this year. Apparently I am! I didn't even go through the review process. I did have a 3-month review in March, so I guess they just used that. So, I'm finally a manager. It's funny, because just last night I was thinking that if I had stayed with E&Y, I would just now be wrapping up my 4th year as a manager. But, since I decided to leave the world of public accounting where promotions are commonplace, I reverted backwards as far as titles go. Now I'm back where I was and it sounds really weird to call myself a manager. I have to admit, it does make me feel more excited about my job and motivated to do well....companies should all be better about things like this! It also means a bit of a pay increase and I've been dying to move out into my own place without leaving Manhattan- now it may seem more feasible!

Speaking of moving out reminds me of my crazy roommates. These girls a supposed to be the cream-of-the-crop....one a UCLA grad, the other a Yale undergrad/Columbia grad school grad. But, they seem to lack quite a bit of common sense when it come to day-to-day household things. Many of you have heard my story of when Sharon cleaned the refrigerator and chose to dispose of the food scraps in our bathtub. Yeah, you can imagine how that ended. Our tub was filled with water and food scraps for 2 days and I didn't get to shower. Poor Cathy lacks common sense but is also completely paranoid and a huge worrier. Last night, I came home with groceries and was working to put them away in the fridge. I was moving some stuff around and picked up a bag of carrots that was hard as a rock. Cathy happened to be in there and I said, "These carrots aren't mine, but they're completely frozen." She said she'd read an article about food poisoning and had turned both the refrigerator and freezer temperatures all the way up! Our fridge has always been just as cold as any other fridge and we've been using it for over a year with no problems, so I'm not sure why she thought we were going to get food poisoning. Anyway, I'm probably overly sensitive at this point, but come on!