billie jean - 3 years ago this weekend
i am now an experienced phone answerer...probably about 13 years later than any of you who were born before 1990 were. AOL Instant Messenger debuted in 1997, & promptly bypassed my need to talk on the phone from middle school on. i've always had phone anxiety (ask my family), so when i was told i would be taking the place of EVP/General Manager Tom Carrabba's assistant, I was more than a little nervous. The woman who was going on vacation holds the title of Executive Coordinator, but the only task of hers I had to handle was more than enough. Phones. Tom gets a lot of calls in a day & I had to act as his operator. There are plenty of nice people that call him in a day - people from around the country who have business with the label. There are also some very...busy...people that aren't all that interested in Tom's "middle-man." All in all it was a good experience, and a really good person to get to know.
my temporary office over the past few days. the typewriter-looking thing next to the phone is an Amtel machine - essentially a 1980's version of AOL Instant Messenger.
in other news, gretchen came to visit again this weekend. it is always great to spend time with her. we took the metro to White Plains (about 20 miles outside of the city) for my NU friend Pam's birthday. great stuff great stuff. we still have not had a free weekend & it looks like we won't have one for the next two months either!
on the metro
in other news, i am continuing to progress through my "identity crisis" & think i need to remember that i am only 19 a bit more! i seem to always have this feeling that i am running out of time, and that it's time for me to be something important. kind of like i'm not moving fast enough. (I think this is the effect "Co-Op" has on most Northeastern sophomores...joining the corporate world at 19 has its side-effects)
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