Office Life

Today marked the 3rd week that I've worked in the IT consulting firm. Answering phones are getting easier, but still distracting when I try to finish up resumes. I am getting really fast in handling resumes. I can get resumes done in less than 20 minutes if they are not too complicated. After reviewing these resumes, I found that so many of them are highly intelligent IT professionals, but they simply can't spell or type. When I see typos after typos, it gives me headache. I would expect resumes to be the most basic but powerful tool for a person to impress their prospective employers, and typos can definitely turn them off.

I do wish the company will at least arrange a temporary seat with computer and email address for me because I am currently migrating from one person's seat to the next, whoever is not using their computer for a moment. If I have my own seat, I don't have to worry about interrupting other people's job or invading their personal space when they are not there. Next week I will continue to work there. I guess I'll just take it week by week. My supervisor in the company seems to like me, and the other admins seem to be appreciative of my help. I take that as a good sign.

Anyway, there are some other perks working in this office. They have a nice coffee machine, constant supply of soft drinks and bottled water. Also, since I started working there three weeks ago, there has been three office parties. They ordered from some nice places and did a pot luck. I hope that they will continue to have parties and I won't have to bring lunch to work.. :D

Today, the staff in the office actually threw a wedding shower for one of the office managers, who got married in June. Some of the staff members brought in very nice food, like, sun-dried tomato dip, BBQ chicken dip, and fried chicken wings. Since I didn't take a break until they had the party, I stayed in the party for almost 1 hour. That means that I ate for about 30 minutes. Maybe having party every week is not such a hot idea if I want to fit into my wedding dress.

Talking about wedding, we are still searching for our wedding photographer. We made an appointment to go into Arlington to visit a studio after church. I hope this will be the end of the search. We've visited three photographers so far. I like some of the features from each of them, but it is hard to decide which features we'd sacrifice for the other ones. I hope Sunday's visit will give us additional options or at least let us make our final choice.

Oh well, it's been a long week, and it's time for a little bit video game.. :D Until next time...

Decoration

On one trip to an art supply store with Amy, we noticed the origami paper in the store, and she suggested that I can make my "famous" paper cranes as the main decoration for the wedding. At first I was not particularly enthusastic, but I thought about it, it is actually an excellent idea since folding paper cranes is my trademark to those who know me. I'll just buy some nice paper with Japanese print, and fold the cranes til my hands get cramps.

I haven't started on the cranes yet, but I've started to make paper stars as confetti for the wedding. Everyone thinks that I am crazy, and they are right. I'll just take my time making them, since there is still... how many days? 4 month and 15 days until the wedding.. :P

Updates

It's been awhile since I posted last. No excuse other than just being lazy. Since my last post, many things have happened. I went dress shopping with Leann and Katherine, and I really appreciated their help. It was really fun to try on different dresses and envisioned what I will look like for the wedding. The day we went dress shopping, I also got a phone call from the temp agency that I got a temporary assignment to work in an IT recruitment firm.

I was not too happy the first day I was at the job because I felt out of place and I had to answer phones. I was really crabby that day and Andy and our friend got the full blast of Ann's meanness (although they probably experience it often before). It took me two days to get used to the phone answering and the pace of the job. Now I am still not too thrilled with the phone part of the job, but I am happier with it and feel a lot more comfortable. I am not sure how long the job is going to last, but I'll just take it one day at a time, I guess.

One day during my late-night search for useful wedding related web sites, I decide to look up Internet telephone and I found Skype. I knew about it for a long time, but I've never tried it. It is amazingly cheap. It only cost about 2 dollars for me to talk to my mom in Taiwan for an hour and half. I called them two days in a row. That reminds me, I need to call home again soon.

Well, I'll try to keep up with the blog, but now I'd better go to bed so I can get up in time for work in the morning.. :D