Semi-last day

Because most of the people I work with will be out of town tomorrow, today might as well have been my last day. Work was good and I started making some lists of things I've been doing. I still have to write my weekly report from last week so maybe I'll do that tomorrow when everyone is gone. Tricia's birthday is on Sunday so they got another ice cream cake from Hallmark for us to enjoy. Tricia is one of the finance people for the company. We took a group picture, but Alison Reemer and Matt McQueen couldn't make it so I took a different one with them later. Alison is our internship contact at the company. She's the one we go to when there are problems or when we need time off. Matt is the one I've worked with on everything I've done for Staples. He's been great at involving me and helping me get some real experience. He's the one who took me to meet one of the editor's of Family Circle, invited me to the SMT (satellite media tour) and worked with me on all the magazines I've been pitching. It's been great. He actually got promoted this afternoon, so that's exciting. Today was the last day I saw Glenys, too. She's one of the receptionists and she's obsessed with french fries. I mean she's seriously obsessed. If she just hears the word she has to have them. She loves anything potato but she especially loves them as fries.

After work, Laurel and I went to the Spelling Bee lottery. We ran into Garth & Dallas, who also put their names in for us. But no luck. So, we walked down to the Drowsy Chaperone lottery to try our luck there, but still nothing. We all went to one of the many McDonald's in Times Square and ate. That was fun. The guys had won tickets to Wicked so they headed that way while Laurel and I headed to Dave & Busters for dessert...one of those banana foster. Those things are sooooooooooooooo dang good! We sat in the arcade area, thinking it would speed up the process, but not really. The service was really bad so we didn't give her much of a tip, but I still gave her at least 12 percent. We went to the bathroom, left the building, walked about 20 yards when I realized that I had forgotten a bag by the table. I had my dress shoes and a pair of flip flops (that I had left at work the day before) sitting in a bag together under the table. When we went back to get it the bag was gone. I asked the waitress, manager and checked the bathroom. Nothin. Oh well, I feel worse for the person who's going to open it and find my stinky tights, almost dead shoes and a pair of slightly worn flip flops. That's probably the best thing in the whole bag and you can buy them at Old Navy for $2.50. Anyway, it was fine. Those shoes needed to be tossed anyway because I'm too hard on the heel. I was just thinking earlier today that they were wearing thin in the sole so it's fine.

After we left, Laurel decided she wanted to have her portrait drawn. We finally found a guy that told her he'd do it for 15 and that it would only be like 15 minutes. Right from the beginning I could tell that it was going to take a while so I went to go see if I could have a caricature done. On 42nd street (Times Square) there are artists just lining the streets trying to get you to buy anything. I found one I liked and sat down. All though the picture really doesn't look anything like me except for it has the same hairdo, its something funny. I'll try to take a picture of it and post it. Laurel's looked good too but ended up taking about 45 minutes.

Anyway, its late and tomorrow's my last day! I gotta get some sleep.

G'night!

-mk


Don't worry, I haven't been scantily clad and drinking during my time in New York but apparently the artist thought I must just be like all the rest of them, no matter what my real outfit said.