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Gwen. 23. Sagittarius. Dutch girl. Psychology student. proud brunette. sarcastic. honest. neurotic. sweet. people pleaser. movie buff. magazine whore. "every day is a fashion show". Phantom Planet.
Maroon 5. Drake Bell. Rooney. Razorlight. Ashlee Simpson. Ali Larter. Katherine Heigl. Scarlett J. Rachel McAdams. Jessica Biel.
Eric Christian Olsen.
Jake Gyllenhaal. Dermot Mulroney. <3 Jared Padalecki. John Krasinski. Elizabethtown. The Family Stone.
Empire Records. 10 Things I Hate About You. Magnolia. My Best Friend's Wedding. Scream. Almost Famous.
Chasing Amy. Planet Terror. The Office.
Grey's Anatomy. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Scrubs.
Date: 07/20/08 Listening: I want to hold your hand - The Beatles Watching: Malcolm in the Middle Reading: The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck Feeling: sleepy Loving: getting back into the fansite spirit Last movie: Wrong Turn Surfing:PostSecret
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PLAN B
Work is still weird. Our office manager had a week off and we weren't sure she was ever returning. My boss even asked me if I'm willing to work more and switch certain days to cover for her if she doesn't return. Our secretary is going on holiday soon and if our office manager didn't return, no one would be there to register the new clients and make appointments. However, she did show up for work, but it's still unclear if she's really staying or still quitting. For now, I remain my boss's plan B. Should I be flattered? Should I be insulted? Who knows! [...] I need time off..
Sometimes I wonder why parents don't watch their children better. I was at the subway station and standing at the top of the escalator was a toddler. He wanted to step onto the escalator so I was already thinking to myself that this isn't going to end well. I see his parents still busy checking themselves into the station as I get onto the escalator. Not 10 seconds later the toddler falls onto the escalator crying. I walk up to him and pick him up, because I don't know how many times a year I hear about kids getting stuck in an escalator. Suddenly the dad comes running and screaming at the kid as I wait at the bottom of the escalator and he grabbed him without even saying thanks. Yeah, you're friggin' welcome, dude. Try birth control or a vasectomy. Please. Yes, I understand children wander off, but letting them wander around a subway station is not the best idea. One time I had to carry a toddler into a subway, because his parents had already boarded and the doors were closing and they were yelling at him to come him and he was just standing there crying. Why do people yell at toddlers? Does that really work?
Things are moving along very slowly with the new website at work. They hired a company ages ago to build it and they should have finished it three weeks ago. I've been adding content using their lame ass WYSIWYG editor. Now they want me to do something "complicated" with it and I have to go take this 1,5 hour course. Seriously. I've thought about it and I'm going to do it.. more with the intent to find out why they created such a crappy program. You can't even change the font or the font size with that thing, so when I copy and paste a news article, it appears in the original format. I have to either change it using Word or type the entire article in the editor. How is that efficient? Also, the guys were setting up a forum and I saw that one of them posted a question on it how to fix a certain problem. Even I knew the answer to that.. and this is the same guy that's going to teach me how to work with this program. WHY? And now my boss told me she wants to come along. You know, for funsies.
As you can probably tell, I have nothing to blog about. Just been working a lot and feeling flu-ish.
EDIT 07/08: Okay, weird stuff is going on at work. Apparently, our office manager is quitting or so I heard via the person she told but it's still very hush hush. It doesn't really come as a suprise though. She's been very discontent these past months, which has not been good for the work atmosphere. Things are bad when people are scared to ask you stuff, you know. And our boss made her cry last week, so I'm guessing that was the last straw. If she quits, it's going to be a huge problem, because the place barely functions if she has like 2 days off. But uhm.. you didn't hear this from me.
Well.. hmm.. okay. My supervisor finally graded my thesis and he gave it a 7.5. He called me on my cellphone at work yesterday and sounded incredibly serious so I immediately thought it was going to be bad news. But it turned out to be the grade that I was kinda expecting that I would get. He said it would've been an 8 if I had showed more initiative, which I also expected he would say. I'm a pretty good student, but this scientific stuff isn't something that comes easy to me. So I needed a little more guidance during the whole research, testing and analyzing process. Plus, to his disappointment I always had little interest in becoming a researcher and thus lacked enthusiasm. I can't help it that I rather want to be a therapist. It's my choice, right?
That means I now have all my credits and I will be graduating in September with a 7.5 GPA. On one hand, I feel like it's a pretty average GPA, but on the other hand, you need an 8.1 or higher to graduate cum laude here, so I guess if you compare, it's not too bad. Do you know they make it harder for you to graduate cum laude here by not giving grades higher than an 8 in certain courses? It's ridiculous. Anyways, everyone at work reacted more excited than I did and they gave me a beautiful bouquet of flowers today as a congrats. I really wasn't expecting it! I'm not sure where my lack of excitement is coming from. Guess I'm just sad my time at uni is coming to an end. I only have a couple more weeks left as an intern and I have to write my final report about it, but that doesn't count towards my GPA.
Okay, now something I can be excited about: shopping! Err.. that just made me sound really shallow right? I bought two beautiful dresses this weekend and the pictures below really don't do them any justice. The left one is a cute layered summer dress (if only the weather would cooperate) and the right one is the dress I'll be wearing when I graduate. I think it's pretty classy. Both are knee-length.. I don't really like too short. Which one is your favorite?
Remember that restaurant chain with the bomb threat? Nathalie and I ate there today and it was still as busy there as before the threat. It felt a bit weird, but we weren't scared.
GAHHH.. today bugged! I went to work early to finish a client report, because my colleague almost kicked me out of the building yesterday at 4.45 pm. We were the only ones left and she was already halfway out the door when she said that if I don't leave now, I have to lock up, set the alarm and close the gate. I don't even have a key! So I arrive early, finish my report only to find out my first client cancelled. My next clients were in the afternoon so I had nothing to do all morning. But then the afternoon was really busy and my last client ran late so I got to leave at 6.15 pm. That last client really frustrated me because I'm here to help, right? And he just wasn't listening and he wasn't open to any suggestions at all. It felt like a huge waste of time.
Tomorrow and Thursday are going to be busy as well, so I've decided to take Friday off otherwise I might actually go insane. I'm going to visit my friend Jo. I haven't seen her in months and I'm very excited. I have to travel 40 minutes by train to get there, but I picked up Shopaholic Takes Manhattan to read so I will definitely amuse myself. Jo is one of my friends from university that I haven't seen much of since classes ended for me about a year ago. Other people I really miss are Steven and Amber because I used to see them on a daily basis. Those are a lot of lunch and coffee breaks spent together and now I haven't seen both of them in months. I hate it. If my life were a chicklit novel this would end in a quirky and upbeat way. I'd probably end up marrying him and starting my own practice with her. So far, life has shown no signs of being one.
In other news, I've passed my final. YAYNESS! And I can't be the only one disappointed in the Sex and the City movie, right?
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However, she did show up for work, but it's still unclear if she's really staying or still quitting. For now, I remain my boss's plan B. Should I be flattered? Should I be insulted? Who knows! [...] I need time off.. 
Tuesday, Angela, Jay, Eryca Lee, Rob, Ciel, Annika, Jaz, Rachael W., Jamie, Olivia, DarkChii, Christa, Cynthia,
Also, the guys were setting up a forum and I saw that one of them posted a question on it how to fix a certain problem. Even I knew the answer to that.. and this is the same guy that's going to teach me how to work with this program. WHY? And now my boss told me she wants to come along. You know, for funsies. 
I bought two beautiful dresses this weekend and the pictures below really don't do them any justice. The left one is a cute layered summer dress (if only the weather would cooperate) and the right one is the dress I'll be wearing when I graduate. I think it's pretty classy. Both are knee-length.. I don't really like too short. Which one is your favorite? 
So I arrive early, finish my report only to find out my first client cancelled. My next clients were in the afternoon so I had nothing to do all morning. But then the afternoon was really busy and my last client ran late so I got to leave at 6.15 pm. That last client really frustrated me because I'm here to help, right? And he just wasn't listening and he wasn't open to any suggestions at all. It felt like a huge waste of time. 
And I can't be the only one disappointed in the Sex and the City movie, right?