I want to say something substantial. There are so many small things going on in my life, I don't really know where to start.
posted by phat tony 11:31 PM
I'm at work. It's an associate's birthday. We're having cake in five minutes, and then probably drinks after work. Joy.
So there's this potential opportunity that I'm very excited about... alumni dance at Dance Mix 2002! Angie, Sam, Steve, and I talked about it two nights ago... I just some people about it. How fantastic would this be... choreograph something, bring it together with others' choreography, videotape it, send it to everyone about two months before the show, meet a week before the show in some semi-exotic locale (Miami? Southern Cali? HAWAII?!?), learn choreography, get tan, look fantastic, and then go back to Michigan and blow the crowd away... how great would that be?
posted by phat tony 2:18 PM
Here I am. At work. Thrilling. My team is auditing. Auditing lots of boxes. It's monotonous. Yes it is.
I think there's some thanksgiving shindig going down at my apartment tomorrow night... Randall, Gerard, Leslie, maybe Sammy, maybe more, I dunno.. that could be fun. I can't cook. I wonder if that's going to be a problem.
posted by phat tony 3:42 PM
Three cheers for productivity!
But seriously, I woke up this morning mad early (well, relatively), ran, got a hair cut, filled out an application for Columbia Law School, read some e-mail, went to the post office, and now I'm at work. This is ridiculous. I feel so much better from yesterday. SO MUCH.
Looking forward to the weekend...
posted by phat tony 11:06 AM
Can we talk about how I'm freaking out right now? Let's chat. Okay, so my office through a legal assistant cocktail party last night... we all got BLITZED. I got... well, I got exceptionally blitzed, and I ended up not feeling very well this morning. SO I came in late to work. Whatever, I wasn't feeling well, and neither was anyone else in my office. But then I got to work, and it turns out that TODAY is the day our head honcho people wanted to crack down or something on people coming in late (okay, this is the story of Amit who has only come in late ONCE and that was TODAY... done). Whatever, I'm not really in trouble. But then I get this wack voicemail from some dude who is all,"yo, you can help this other dude today," not even asking my case manager if I didn't have any work to do (which I DID)... and to top it all off, this dude is greazy and kind of a loser, and that's all I have to say about that. And plus, it's tons of manual labor (moving boxes, what IS that?). So, yeah, that's not a good thing. And I'm still not feeling so well, and now I think primal scream therapy might help. Hope no one minds.
posted by phat tony 3:39 PM
So, what I'm trying to say is that I'm kind of afraid to fly now. In a few weeks, I'm going to be headed to Detroit for the 58 Greene and Amazin' Blue concerts... gonna be doing the alumni thing and supporting friends thing. It should be way fun. However, with all these accidents and terrorist acts happening in NYC, I'm worried. But then I think about it... much like the Anthrax scares at Cravath (who in the world is going to Anthrax a corporate and litigation law firm?!? Someone told me that,"you know, Cravath has some pretty important clients."... how weird.), who is going to terrorize a flight to Detroit on a small carrier? (KNOCK ON WOOD)
Regardless, I'm still scared.
But I'm excited about seeing people. My girl Julie is also, completely coincidentally, going to be in Ann Arbor that weekend, which is just about as thrilling as things get.
posted by phat tony 11:07 AM
My friend's father passed away a few days ago. His life is going to change (or has changed) in ways none of his friends will ever understand. But we will always be there for him, no matter what. I mean, his friends ARE his family... I think that's the way he likes it.
On a related note, I've never known what to say when a close friend loses a loved one. I can't say "Oh, I understand what you're going through," because I don't. Nothing I can say can really make anything okay. So then I end up not calling because I'm afraid my timing will be inappopriate or I'll come off being insensitive or too sensitive or something... but all he probably needs is a friend to say that he/she cares.
posted by phat tony 1:57 PM
JON just fixed my page, so now it looks all special.
Everyone say "Thank You, Jon!"
Now that we got that out of the way...
posted by phat tony 3:50 PM
Speaking of lifting weights... I just went to the gym tonight, and I realized that yes, I TOO can start lifting weights... but I have to go at 10 or 10:30 at night when no one else is there.
I work with some really fun people. And some not so fun. But the fun people more than make up for the others. That's all I have to say about that.
posted by phat tony 11:55 PM
manual labor manual labor manual labor!!! I'm going to be called in a few minutes (or seconds) to participate in my team's "case room clean-up." I didn't mess it up, why do I have to clean it?
I know I'm whining. But really... there's a reason I don't lift weights.
posted by phat tony 11:00 AM
As it turns out, Summer and I were the only two 2XS or FunKtion alumni that didn't make an appearance at UIUC this past weekend... everyone else was there. I just read Heather's blog, and talk about depressing for me... everyone was having an incredible time, reliving all these collegiate memories, dancing... wow. I wish I was there.
I spoke with Puzioux today. I was saying how I randomly think of 8-counts and he was saying how FunKtion kind of needed new choreography... so I kind of volunteered myself. I don't think FunKtion really needs my help in the slightest, but I really want to dance for some sort of purpose again. And if that means I just dance in front of my mirror at home, thinking of dance moves for the new classes of FunKtion to perform, well, I'm happy doing that. I hope it's okay. I simultaneous am really excited to start coming up with stuff and feel kind of dumb that I might be stepping on people's toes. I mean, I know FunKtion can carry on quite well without my input... and exceptionally well without my choreography... but I just really wanna. Oh well. Call me stupid if you will.
Back to work tomorrow. Apparently, we're reorganizing the case room. Manual labor. Wow.
posted by phat tony 10:49 PM
I have the weekend off!!! This never happens to me. It's fantastic... what am I gonna do?
posted by phat tony 12:07 PM
Everyone is going to Chicago.
No fair.
I get about a million e-mails daily. They're all from FunKtion or 2XS. I love it because it keeps me in the loop. I DON'T love it because I get incredibly jealous and I don't know what to do with myself. Jon gets to go, but I don't. Babbs gets to go, but I don't. HOW IS THAT FAIR?!? It's not. Gross. They're gonna have a fantastic time, and I'm gonna be working. Looking through documents, producing to opposing counsel, lots of paper-pushing.
I wanna dance again. I know I kind of just said that, but still. Sammy and I were talking the other day about maybe coming back and donig some sort of alumni thing for Dance Mix... how great would that be? But then I'm like, maybe I'm overstepping my bounds, maybe it's like I left and now I can't really come back without it being a bit shady. Maybe I'm being dumb, but maybe not.
I miss all of those FunKtion and 2XS folk. I think it's weird that I don't really know the new kids, but everyone else kind of does. I don't want to be the weird one who used to be, but ain't anymore. That doesn't really make sense to anyone else, I'm sure.
I'm dealing. Gross.
posted by phat tony 12:41 PM
Forgive me people for I have sinned... it's been over a month since my last blog entry.
Why is that?
Okay, so a lot has been happening. I was reading over my last blog entry, and at the end of it, I talked about how I had a random interview for this random law firm. Well, I got the job, and I've been working as a litigation legal assistant at Cravath, Swaine & Moore for the past month. Joy. Kind of. Whatever, I'm learning a thing or two, I'm making money, I still see my friends every now and then... it's not bad. BUT... I don't get to dance anymore. And that makes me really upset sometimes.
posted by phat tony 12:27 PM
