It's Summer Finally!

So how did you get through this past rather humid weekend? Are you ready yet for many days of those pressing 100 degrees days? I know I’m not. Although I grew up in a tropical country, being here for many years kind of converted my tolerance to fewer months of hot and muggy weather as oppose to 10 months out of a year deal in the Philippines. Had experienced it and don’t have any interest in being “practically naked”.

This past weekend was low-key like what I had previously planned. I did few things like seeing Narnya with my roommate, had a cookout after the sun had gone down Saturday night, watched “One Missed Call”, and had Macaroni Grill dinner with Mom today. She insisted that I go and see her because apparently she missed me—I know she really missed me, and so did I! I brought something back from San Francisco for her—just so she has something from where I was. It’s my tradition to bring her something—whatever it is—whenever I have a business/pleasure trip. She seems to appreciate it, so that’s cool. Anyway, we had fun over at Macaroni Grill and it was too bad my brother couldn’t join us. Mom and I made a deal that every Sunday we’d see each other, have dinner together and treat each other alternately—one pick the place and the other will pay! So I made her pick the place (well I kind of suggested “Mi N Yu” in Georgetown next Sunday), but she still needs to get that all decided. So that’s what will take my Sunday afternoon and night from now on. Spending quality time with Mom is the greatest ever!

I can sense that this week is going to be pretty hectic now that I’m back although I’m still catching up with my work that I intentionally put in the back burner before my San Francisco business trip. So now things are catching up on me and I better get things under control. One of my big projects this week is setting up all the paper review assignments into our online system and notify reviewers with their assignments so they can begin reviewing them and submit their gradings. After that we’ll determine the accepted ones from which we’ll develop the program with. It’s tedious process and time consuming. After that things should slow down a bit—I can’t wait! Concurrent with that is sending all the CEUs that our attendees have applied for and my responsibility is to make sure they get approved. This is also one major part of my job is to manage CEU programs including program approval and certificate issuance to attendees. That would be a W0ot w0ot for my resume—manage multi-step conference program CEU application process! Those are things that will occupy my time pretty much this whole entire week on top of my “normal” items that I work on a daily basis.

Well, so it sounds like I have a busy week ahead of me so take no offense if I don’t respond to anyone who contacts me immediately—it’s just a job! Of course, have a fabulous capital pride week to everyone. Make every moment count!

d-Jae