First my phone...

...then my car died tonight. AAA took forever and I missed the first GBC meeting of the quarter. When I arrived on campus, I was that annoying person who was a half hour late and had to awkwardly find a seat in a room with over 90 students. Waiting for AAA made my cold even worse and being sick makes me grumpy.

If I was in elementary school, I would quote Alexander and say that I am having a "terrible, horrible, no good, and very bad" week.

On a positive note, I had a good day at work and think that I will enjoy my pricing class.

A Day in the Life of A Downtown Employee: Financial Crisis & Expense Control Edition

Yesterday was a cold cold day in the office. It turns out that the maintenance crew had received instructions to turn off the heat in the entire building because it was going to be a nice day.

A nice day during the month of December in Upstate, New York?!

I hope my company saved a lot of money yesterday because I'm shivering again today...

I'm on Fire!

Happy Hump Day & Happy Birthday Internet!

I'm having a great week thus far and am looking forward to finding out if it will continue to ride the waves of good news:

First, I got the green light to delegate the data entry portion of my sales tracking responsibilities (YAY!) so that I can spend more energy expanding my skill set and helping the client managers bring in new business.

On Tuesday, I realized that I wasted too much time over the last few weeks being a pre/post exam grump. I picked up my Operations midterm yesterday and happily discovered that I was ahead of the curve.

Bank of America's Hurricane Relief Team was recognized by Alan Rappaport and Jay Springer (no relation to Jerry) on this afternoon's all hands call. Rochester is one of the smallest cities in our market (DE, NJ, NY, PA and parts of CT) so it was a pleasant surprise that four of the associates recognized this quarter were from Upstate, NY.

In other good news, I'm only one wish away from becoming a lead wish granter for the Make-A-Wish foundation!

Help Wanted!

We are having a Halloween Party at work next week and I've received bi-partisan support for my costume. I'll be wearing my glasses, a red suit, and Amelia is going to puff up my hair.

Please let me know if you can help me obtain the following items by October 30:

• An Alaskan accent
• A [free] McCain/Palin pin

Feel free to leave me other costume or prop suggestions in the comments!