gwendol is 21!

Happy Birthday Gwen!!!! I am so sad not to be with you. We will party hard next weekend though. Have fun at Opera or where ever you guys end up. Think of me doing the awkward Shelley dance and making my “dance” face. I can’t believe I am missing it….

Gosh I just can’t be productive today. Maybe it’s the weather or something. I apologize for the extremely boring update that is to follow…

I am almost done with the second Twilight book. I have stayed up too late the last two nights reading, and even though the writing isn’t all that great and the plot is pretty stupid its hard to put down. Dangit! Hopefully I can finish it tonight and get on with my life. After I read the 3rd and 4th books, of course.

I have been going workout crazy this week. I made it to running 5k without stopping, which is farther than I’ve ever been able to run in my entire life. My knees are hurting like crazy, though, so I’m thinking that this probably shouldn’t turn into a habitual thing. It feels good to have built up my endurance so much, though. Pilates and yoga are going well, and I can feel myself FINALLY getting flexible. I convinced my roommate to come with me one day this week, and she ended up buying a pass for the whole month. Now I have a yoga buddy! I have mixed feelings though because working out used to be “Shelley time” where I could just be alone. Its kind of an “I’d rather walk” situation, if you know what I mean. Its been good to spend more time with her, though. We have a lot more in common than I thought.

Yesterday I went to our downtown offices for an “Offerable Intern Networking Event.” Basically we had a chance to chat with the directors of some of the big P&G brands and make ourselves look good. Considering there were about five directors there and about 200 interns, I opted to enjoy the appetizers instead of the company. I did meet a guy named Jay You who talked about laundry bottles with me for about an hour. Let me tell you how interesting THAT conversation was…

Really the only thing that I got out of that event yesterday was an INTENSE stress about decisions I am going to have to make really soon. P&G is considered a “build from within” company, which is awesome for job security and being successful without having to have a master’s degree in anything. They are also planning on hiring far fewer interns than in years past because of the economy, so there is a lot more competition than there has ever been for new hire positions. First of all, I’m not completely sold on the company, although I’ve learned that I really like R&D stuff. Second, if I get an offer I will have to accept by October, which is crazy early and makes hearing from other companies REALLY difficult because most people don’t give out offers until Christmas time at the earliest. Which means that I have to start looking at other companies NOW to try and get some perspective on what I want to do, where I want to be, and what other places might even be hiring right now. I am freaking out because I don’t know what I want to do when I graduate, and I don’t know where I want to be, either. Choosing P&G seems like such a PERMANENT thing. Of course I can always quit, but most people here don’t. It sucks you in or something….not unlike a cult, at least a little bit.

Well now that I have sufficiently stressed myself I am going to go take some calming breaths and read Twilight. Nothing like Vampires and Werewolfs to put things in perspective....

:) <-For you, Molly

PS: I got a weird email from Hank this week: “Hope you are doing well in Cincy, I’d love to hear from you.” I HATE BEING A GIRL THAT READS TO MUCH INTO THINGS.


Shlell