today was the first day of my new position on the executive relations team; they had a little team meeting to welcome me to the team and i got a lot of applause, and then they said that the guy who had the position before me (who never really “cut the mustard”, as the department’s manager said to me months ago) is now no longer employed with the company.
dad paid me yesterday for taking care of the cats and the house while the family was away, and so to celebrate this new position i went out to the apple store after work and got myself a new ipod classic — i had been annoyed for months that i’ve still got all these cds i’d like to import, but there’s no room on my ipod to fit anything else, so i got this new one to fit the rest of my collection and to give me plenty of room to spare. i haven’t figured out what to name it yet (my old one was named “the bismarck” so that when i’d connect it, it’d say “sync ‘the bismarck'”, bahaha). so now mom gets my old one, and dad gets her current one. bonus is that dad can use it with the FM transmitter we have to listen to his music when he drives down to houston to help feisty_fitz move in in a few days.
i’ve finally got my room looking pretty normal now after moving stuff back. i may have to go to ikea sometime in the near future too, since my table i use as a desk won’t fit in my room with my bed from the apartment, and the desk i’m using now that we have i don’t like too much… i’ll just get another ikea tabletop for $20 and 4 legs for $5 each for a nice small desk.
i haven’t had a chance to go through my emails in the last week (other than a quick glimpse with my blackberry while at work) or really look at lj too much in the last few days what with the move and school and all, but hopefully tomorrow i can start getting caught up on a bunch of things and getting back to people since i’ve got a ton of new messages in my inbox i need to get to. but first, things i NEED to remember to do (like, totally high priority):
- call comcast
- email my human / computer design professor about my project
- call the fort meade office of umuc
- see about ordering my last textbook (47 days to go!)
- call the auto and dental insurance companies
once i get those done, then i can start catching up on my email and lj and getting other such tasks done. i’d like to do a system restore too if i can… i’d like to organize things on here a lot better and i’ve got a bunch of cruft i’d like to get rid of, plus i’ve installed the iphone SDK on here and i’d really prefer to keep experimental stuff like that on the macbook instead of my main desktop.