Where I Make the Greens!

This week has been overwhelmingly slow and yet extremely mentally exhausting. The week started off with slight cold because of the drastic drop of temperature (Ugh! I can’t wait for Summer!), the climax of the program development I’ve been working on, stuff between Rich and I, then lastly but certainly not the least, quite a few events in the office. Events? Yea, not so exciting events.

But, before I get into that, I wanna get these few things out of the way first…

Regarding work load, I’m still working on getting the final piece of the program that I’ve been developing all these time. I’m working with a vendor that specializes in abstract management systems. Right now I’m doing some session scheduling, notifying hundreds of professors around the country (they specialize in social work research) with their presentation schedules, working with another vendor that manages our hotel reservations and conference registrations, working closely with a designer to get our program book designed, laid-out, formatted, and printed (I’m responsible for EVERYTHING that goes in it!), and lastly, collaborating with the program committee to develop our new theme for our 2010 conference, which will be held in San Francisco, CA in January 2010. I’ll be working with the Associate Dean for Academic Research at the University of Pittsburgh. So, I’m looking forward to working with him in developing that program.

Rich and I spoke on Monday night for about 20 minutes telling each other our weekends and our schedule this week. He has a very hectic schedule this week and so do I so we might not have the time to catch up on one another. But, he said he will touch base with me again towards the end of this week and see where we are with our workloads. I hope my schedule opens up for me and Rich to do something. We shall see, but quite frankly I’d be happy to go out with him - but won’t be as excited as I was. For those who doesn’t know, read my other blog that’s called “Far Right Lane”. You will get an idea of what has been going on between me and him and you will understand why I said what I said.

Jerry, our Chief Financial Officer, was diagnosed with some kind of cancer a while back and he’s been taking medications and treatment for the last year or so. He seems to be not quite responding well enough to them recently. We are very worried for him. We just want him to get better very, very soon. We miss him a lot in the office and we are there holding strong for him. (A little bit of background of Jerry: He is such a nice guy. Despite of his professionalism, he is a fun person to be around; a reliable person; very smart guy (he’s the CFO, so yea!). He doesn’t bother anybody in anyway. You do your job and he does his job. That’s the deal. He certainly makes our workplace very pleasant place to work in.)

Another not so good event is that one of my co-workers, who actually just got hired two weeks ago, her mom died yesterday from a cardiac arrest. Apparently she had history of heart attacks and unfortunately did not survive this time. We are very sad to hear it. It just unbelievable that you don’t know when your own time is. Really scary! But, be prepared for anything, everything that could happen. It makes you think, doesn’t it?

To bring the spirit back up in this blog, I made my hotel and flight reservations for my New Orleans trip in two months. I’m quite excited to go down there because I will get to see two of my friends who lives in Louisiana. We haven’t planned anything yet of what to do but we are very eager to catch up face to face. Yay!

Oh, and I’m going to New York to see “Grease” on Saturday, December 6th with quite a few friends. This is going to be great. But, I’m kind of sad that I won’t be able to go to Chicago tomorrow. There’s too many things going on right now at work and I cannot afford to lose a day or two of work as the next two weeks are the highest peak of my schedule during this time of the year. It’s too bad but I suppose I can make plans to go with them some other time.

Anyway, closing this blog now. I hope everyone’s week has gone pretty good so far. Oh, and I haven’t gone to the gym for close to a week now — thanks to my cold crap that I have. However, I can’t wait to go back as soon as I’m feeling better. I’m gaining a bit of weight; that’s why! LOL… OK… I’m out!