My entries never have a common theme anymore. They're just a bunch of jumbled thoughts. Apologies.
- I am BEYOND excited to move. You have no idea. I want to start packing NOW... even though it's still a little less than 2 months away. I'm already trying to go through and figure out what I can start throwing away.
- I got to see Kiley this weekend!!! And Jamie the weekend before!! Simply fabulous.
- Both Toy Story 3 and Date Night were hilarious. I recommend them both. And yes, I realize Date Night came out ages ago. What up dollar theaterrr.
- Today I saw a woman with a 'baby on board' sign on her back window... and she was smoking. Like... seriously? You're concerned that I'm for some reason going to have the urge to slam my car into yours UNTIL I see the 'baby on board' sign... yet you're not concerned about what smoking is doing to your child? Insane.
- Within 5 seconds of seeing the disaster listed above, I also saw a couple that was out on the sidewalk advertising for ballroom dancing lessons. Like... you know how sometimes you'll be driving and you'll see people on the side of the road holding signs saying things like, 'Mattress outlet!!' or '$5 hot and ready pizzas at Little Caesars!'? It was like that... except for ballroom dancing. Not only did they have to stand on one of the busiest intersections ever (Cleveland and Shrock), and not only did they have to hold an obnoxious sign, but they were ALSO required to BALLROOM DANCE on the SIDEWALK. Not joking. They were clasping hands... as you do in ballroom dancing... and between their hands was the giant obnoxious advertisement. And they were dancing. So sad.
- My FAVORITE HOLIDAY EVER is coming up - The Fourth of July!!! I LOOOVE the 4th. It's everything great rolled into one (minus presents) - warm weather, people in good moods, America, the color red (my favorite), family, friends, parades with candy, popsicles, corn on the cob, lemonade, grilling out, and FIREWORKS. Omg. Yesssss. Sadly, Donny will not be home :( Bummer. However, I am still determined to have a wonderful day.
- I take the next section of the CPA exam in a week and one day. This test is definitely not looking good. I definitely feel less prepared than I did for the other two... yikes.
- The call center is the usual. Boring. Soul-sucking. Freezing cold. Full of only two types of people: 1) ghetto people 2) 18 year old Desales graduates who talk about 10 octaves higher than anyone normally should. 'Hiiiii, this is Kimberly, how can I HELP you today?!!?!?!?!?!?!' When they're not on the phone, all they do is discuss the following topics:
1) Which $300 purse they're planning on buying. I am not joking.
2) Credit cards. By that, I mean the conversation went as follows:
Girl 1: Um... so like, the person I just talked to, their credit card had declined. What does that even mean?
Girl 2: Um... I think that's like where you spend too much money.
Girl 1: What do you mean?
Girl 2: Like.. the bank only lets you spend so much money on your card.
Girl 1: Weird. So like... how do you know how much they let you spend?
Girl 2: Ummm... I have no idea. Maybe they call you or something.
Girl 1: Omg. Good thing I don't have a credit card, hahaha... I would be soooo broke. My credit card would decline like ALL the time.
Girl 2: Yeah probably.
3) People they don't like
4) How stupid every single customer is. Since these girls are all new, they don't realize that the customers are asking LEGIT questions that we get all the time. They think the ONE customer who wants to know the thread count just called them. They'll get off the phone and be like 'omg. that lady just asked me like 4 questions about the thread count!!!!!!!!' Like... hi. I answer roughly 15 calls a day SOLELY about thread count. You sell linens. This is to be expected. Shut up. This one girl today was also laughing HYSTERICALLY (on the phone... AT the customer) because the customer thought this girl was at her student's school. This happens all the time. It's because our company sends out brochures specifically with the student's college's name on it. Therefore a lot of times the parents think the school is selling the linens themselves... when they're really just contracting through us. So it's not a ridiculous question. They'll call us and be like 'Hi, can I talk to the housing department?' But this girl was legit like, insulting the customer by laughing at her. Sigh.
Other than the call center, life is good. Moving right along. I'm trying to be as LAZY as possible until September, since that's basically when my life ends... AKA I start working 50-60 hour weeks. Hooray.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Yay :)
Things have been going just... so well lately. Some highlights:
- Jamie came home this weekend and we spent a wonderful Friday together shopping, stuffing our faces with the Pizza Hut lunch buffet (omg yum) and laying out!
- I also got to see a lot of friends I don't usually get to see... Laura, Sam, and Heather!!!
- I PASSED THE AUDIT SECTION OF THE CPA EXAM!!!!!!!! And please keep in mind that this is the one I took in May... I still haven't found out the score from the financial section which I took in April. Dumbest thing ever, but oh well. I passed!! I got an 83... a 75 is a passing grade. However, I feel like I did better on audit than on financial, which worries me because that means I did WORSE than an 83 on that section... not a lot of wiggle room. Eek. Fingers crossed, because I do NOT want to take ANY of these again.
- First paycheck from the call center comes on Fridaaaayyyyy!! AND I found out today that I will be getting an extra FIFTY dollars on my paycheck because I had both the highest average order (a $25 prize) and the highest percentage of people upgrade to a better threadcount (another $25). Yesssss. Granted, it's not really fair, because I was only there for like 4 days, so my percentages are a little skewed (for example, getting people to upgrade on 6/8 calls is obviously a lot easier to do than 600/800 calls)... pretty sure I'm not going to win any more of these contests for the rest of the summer haha. So I'll take it while I can!
- I have seriously gotten like 15 books in the last few days from my Amazon orders. This makes me happy to no end. I'm such a dork.
- Donny graduates in just over a month, and then that means he and I will FINALLY be permanently in the same city!!! I don't even know what to do about that. It's going to be a huge change. But a very, very exciting one.
- I probably shouldn't be happy about another person's misery, but... oh well. The NASBA coordinator for Ohio was fired recently. This is the guy that ignored my 10+ calls/emails/voicemails. It's his fault it took me 9 weeks (instead of 6) to get my notice to schedule for the CPA exam. He's just... a disaster. When I couldn't get ahold of him, I ended up calling the Accountancy Board of Ohio, and they were NOT happy with him... so I'm wondering if that's what kind of set this in progress. Oops. Oh well. For something as important as a CPA license, they should NOT have idiots in charge. We're all better off now. Like, seriously. That's exactly like having someone in the Bar Association just ignoring calls of prospective lawyers who are trying to take the bar exam. You can't do that. And it feels like a small personal victory for me haha.
- My boss from OSU just emailed me asking if I wanted to help grade papers/be an assistant for the Pre-MAcc program in September!! Hooraaaay extra money!!! (It's $11 an hour to grade papers... yes please.) The PreMacc is basically a program for students going into the MAcc that did not have accounting as their undergrad degree, so they may still need to get some prereqs out of the way or just brush up on what they've already taken but probably forgotten. Thank goodness for extra moneyyyy.
- Jamie came home this weekend and we spent a wonderful Friday together shopping, stuffing our faces with the Pizza Hut lunch buffet (omg yum) and laying out!
- I also got to see a lot of friends I don't usually get to see... Laura, Sam, and Heather!!!
- I PASSED THE AUDIT SECTION OF THE CPA EXAM!!!!!!!! And please keep in mind that this is the one I took in May... I still haven't found out the score from the financial section which I took in April. Dumbest thing ever, but oh well. I passed!! I got an 83... a 75 is a passing grade. However, I feel like I did better on audit than on financial, which worries me because that means I did WORSE than an 83 on that section... not a lot of wiggle room. Eek. Fingers crossed, because I do NOT want to take ANY of these again.
- First paycheck from the call center comes on Fridaaaayyyyy!! AND I found out today that I will be getting an extra FIFTY dollars on my paycheck because I had both the highest average order (a $25 prize) and the highest percentage of people upgrade to a better threadcount (another $25). Yesssss. Granted, it's not really fair, because I was only there for like 4 days, so my percentages are a little skewed (for example, getting people to upgrade on 6/8 calls is obviously a lot easier to do than 600/800 calls)... pretty sure I'm not going to win any more of these contests for the rest of the summer haha. So I'll take it while I can!
- I have seriously gotten like 15 books in the last few days from my Amazon orders. This makes me happy to no end. I'm such a dork.
- Donny graduates in just over a month, and then that means he and I will FINALLY be permanently in the same city!!! I don't even know what to do about that. It's going to be a huge change. But a very, very exciting one.
- I probably shouldn't be happy about another person's misery, but... oh well. The NASBA coordinator for Ohio was fired recently. This is the guy that ignored my 10+ calls/emails/voicemails. It's his fault it took me 9 weeks (instead of 6) to get my notice to schedule for the CPA exam. He's just... a disaster. When I couldn't get ahold of him, I ended up calling the Accountancy Board of Ohio, and they were NOT happy with him... so I'm wondering if that's what kind of set this in progress. Oops. Oh well. For something as important as a CPA license, they should NOT have idiots in charge. We're all better off now. Like, seriously. That's exactly like having someone in the Bar Association just ignoring calls of prospective lawyers who are trying to take the bar exam. You can't do that. And it feels like a small personal victory for me haha.
- My boss from OSU just emailed me asking if I wanted to help grade papers/be an assistant for the Pre-MAcc program in September!! Hooraaaay extra money!!! (It's $11 an hour to grade papers... yes please.) The PreMacc is basically a program for students going into the MAcc that did not have accounting as their undergrad degree, so they may still need to get some prereqs out of the way or just brush up on what they've already taken but probably forgotten. Thank goodness for extra moneyyyy.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Wonderful day so far!
My day is going wonderfully so far! Reasons are listed below:
1. Perhaps most exciting... Donny and I got the townhouse we wanted!!!!!!! We'll be moving in late August. I'm SO excited, you have no idea!! Twice the room I have now for barely $100 more a month, too!
2. It's finally NOT 90 degrees outside! It's beautiful!
3. I spoke to Cindy McCain on the phone today. Like... John McCain's wife. Seriously. She called the call center to check to see if we got her fax order. I was suspicious it was her, because their address was in Arizona, but obviously I wasn't going to ask. I looked at her student's name and sure enough, it's one of her children's names. CRAZY. She was really nice, although I basically made a complete idiot of myself. I was trying to look up her order by using her last name and zip code and I couldn't hear her because she was speaking so softly, so I asked her to spell her name for me. Then she did and I was like ah. yes. And I rambled on for ages about how we may not have entered the order into the system yet because we don't always enter fax orders in the day we get them... blah blah blah. Like, glad I just wasted 5 minutes of Cindy McCain's time. Anyway, while I could certainly not be called a McCain supporter, it was nice to know that she's doing all these menial tasks herself! I'm sure she's incredibly busy.
4. I've started to get shipments from Amazon on the HUGE purchase I made a few days ago... HOORAY! I love getting new books :)
5. I got my diploma in the mail today! ... in a shitty looking cardboard folder, but oh well. I'm going to get it framed eventually, I suppose. Anyway, it was exciting to see in the mail!
6. I'm ALMOST caught up on CPA studying... almost.
7. I'm going to a farmer's market near campus with Raymond in a bit, and then later tonight the midnight showing of Toy Story 3 with some friends :) Should be a good time!
1. Perhaps most exciting... Donny and I got the townhouse we wanted!!!!!!! We'll be moving in late August. I'm SO excited, you have no idea!! Twice the room I have now for barely $100 more a month, too!
2. It's finally NOT 90 degrees outside! It's beautiful!
3. I spoke to Cindy McCain on the phone today. Like... John McCain's wife. Seriously. She called the call center to check to see if we got her fax order. I was suspicious it was her, because their address was in Arizona, but obviously I wasn't going to ask. I looked at her student's name and sure enough, it's one of her children's names. CRAZY. She was really nice, although I basically made a complete idiot of myself. I was trying to look up her order by using her last name and zip code and I couldn't hear her because she was speaking so softly, so I asked her to spell her name for me. Then she did and I was like ah. yes. And I rambled on for ages about how we may not have entered the order into the system yet because we don't always enter fax orders in the day we get them... blah blah blah. Like, glad I just wasted 5 minutes of Cindy McCain's time. Anyway, while I could certainly not be called a McCain supporter, it was nice to know that she's doing all these menial tasks herself! I'm sure she's incredibly busy.
4. I've started to get shipments from Amazon on the HUGE purchase I made a few days ago... HOORAY! I love getting new books :)
5. I got my diploma in the mail today! ... in a shitty looking cardboard folder, but oh well. I'm going to get it framed eventually, I suppose. Anyway, it was exciting to see in the mail!
6. I'm ALMOST caught up on CPA studying... almost.
7. I'm going to a farmer's market near campus with Raymond in a bit, and then later tonight the midnight showing of Toy Story 3 with some friends :) Should be a good time!
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
A few thoughts
A few thoughts:
- The Westerville Public Library is far too big to have such a dinky parking lot. Please fix. Thanks.
- I was a moron today at said library. When trying to do self-checkout, I kept scanning the book's original barcode, not the library's. So then I waited in line at the front desk for 10 minutes, claiming that my card must have something wrong with it. The woman at the desk was like um... no, you're just scanning them wrong. Ooooops.
- Second day at the call center and it's ALREADY a long summer. AND I'm only working part time. I can't imagine my attitude if I was working full-time. However, I have a new supervisor this year and he is quality.
- The only thing I like about working at the call center again is that I get to be in Westerville again for little spurts of time :)
- The Westerville Public Library is far too big to have such a dinky parking lot. Please fix. Thanks.
- I was a moron today at said library. When trying to do self-checkout, I kept scanning the book's original barcode, not the library's. So then I waited in line at the front desk for 10 minutes, claiming that my card must have something wrong with it. The woman at the desk was like um... no, you're just scanning them wrong. Ooooops.
- Second day at the call center and it's ALREADY a long summer. AND I'm only working part time. I can't imagine my attitude if I was working full-time. However, I have a new supervisor this year and he is quality.
- The only thing I like about working at the call center again is that I get to be in Westerville again for little spurts of time :)
Friday, June 4, 2010
Year end wrap up
I'm officially (well... kind of) finished with my MASTER'S program. It just seems too crazy to even type.
I say 'kind of' because I'm really not even finished with my finals yet. I'm just close enough to make this blog post haha. I just turned in my final paper for one class this afternoon. I have a final on Monday morning at 7:30 AM (seriously?) and a take-home final due Monday at 9:30 AM. Siiiick. I've been working on the take-home final on and off since Wednesday... probably about SEVEN HOURS combined so far, and I'm not at all near finished. Like... honestly, is that necessary to make an exam that difficult? I can't even google the answers. Anyway, so Monday at 9:30 AM I'll be finished with all of my work. Then I get to do NOTHING all week (!!!) until Friday which is our MAcc pre-commencement ceremony. I'm not going to the REAL commencement, so I'm considering this my real graduation And it's only going to be like an hour long, HOORAY! They've requested that we wear business formal... I'm not really sure what that is. If they mean business professional, that means wearing a suit... and HELL NO am I wearing a suit at 4:30 PM in the middle of June. No no no. So I bought a cute sleeveless professional-ish dress. Meh.
I'm also excited for the bar crawl on Thursday! Goal = not to still be hungover at 4:30 PM the next day haha. My favorite part about this upcoming bar crawl is that since we're doing it as a group (ALL Fisher grad students), we are having a twitter feed for where we are hahahhaa. Like, omg. Business students WOULD use twitter to update everyone about where we are. Love iiiiitttt.
Anyway, I've been wanting to do this since Jake started doing them ages ago... so yes, I'm completely copying off you, Jake...
here it is, my year in the MAcc program:
Classes taken: 11
Amount I will have paid after interest on my student loans for ONE YEAR of school: $32,000
Times I have cried after taking a test: 3
Times I have cried WHILE taking a test: 3 (2 of which are during my take-home final for the class I mentioned above... sad face. And yes, this means 1 was during an actual exam in a classroom. Embarrassing.)
High school GPA: 4.22
College GPA: 3.72
Grad school GPA: 3.4 (notice a trend?)
MAcc phone numbers in my phone: 21
People I will probably talk to after a year or so: 3
People I will be working with at E&Y: 1
Hours I worked as an ambassador: 300
International interviews performed: 29
Students I took on visits: 15
Amount by which my starting salary for E&Y was decreased: $2,500
Additional amount I was supposed to earn at E&Y for having my Master's: $2,500
Hours spent studying for the CPA exam so far: 263 hours
Sections of the CPA exam taken: 2 (of 4)
Amount paid for the CPA exam: $963 (not counting the $3,000 more I would have had to pay for my review materials if E&Y wasn't amazing)
Weeks I waited for my notice to schedule for the CPA exam: 9
Weeks my classmates waited: 2 (story of my life)
Presentations given: 10
Times I have cursed myself for taking Accounting for Mergers & Acquisitions: Every day of my life since beginning the class
Subway points accumulated: 68
Times I've cursed Taco Bell for being located so close to my apartment: countless
Lunches that turned into drinking at the Varsity Club: 2
Times I've been to Gateway this year: 3 horrible, horrible mistakes.
Lokos I've attempted to choke down: 2
Diet Cokes I've purchased in the Gerlach vending machine: Dear lord. Probably close to 150. Yiiikes.
Times jumping in Mirror Lake: 1
As of this fall, number of people in my immediate family who will have gone to Ohio State: 4. The only 4 that are college-aged. We are kind of sickening.
I say 'kind of' because I'm really not even finished with my finals yet. I'm just close enough to make this blog post haha. I just turned in my final paper for one class this afternoon. I have a final on Monday morning at 7:30 AM (seriously?) and a take-home final due Monday at 9:30 AM. Siiiick. I've been working on the take-home final on and off since Wednesday... probably about SEVEN HOURS combined so far, and I'm not at all near finished. Like... honestly, is that necessary to make an exam that difficult? I can't even google the answers. Anyway, so Monday at 9:30 AM I'll be finished with all of my work. Then I get to do NOTHING all week (!!!) until Friday which is our MAcc pre-commencement ceremony. I'm not going to the REAL commencement, so I'm considering this my real graduation And it's only going to be like an hour long, HOORAY! They've requested that we wear business formal... I'm not really sure what that is. If they mean business professional, that means wearing a suit... and HELL NO am I wearing a suit at 4:30 PM in the middle of June. No no no. So I bought a cute sleeveless professional-ish dress. Meh.
I'm also excited for the bar crawl on Thursday! Goal = not to still be hungover at 4:30 PM the next day haha. My favorite part about this upcoming bar crawl is that since we're doing it as a group (ALL Fisher grad students), we are having a twitter feed for where we are hahahhaa. Like, omg. Business students WOULD use twitter to update everyone about where we are. Love iiiiitttt.
Anyway, I've been wanting to do this since Jake started doing them ages ago... so yes, I'm completely copying off you, Jake...
here it is, my year in the MAcc program:
Classes taken: 11
Amount I will have paid after interest on my student loans for ONE YEAR of school: $32,000
Times I have cried after taking a test: 3
Times I have cried WHILE taking a test: 3 (2 of which are during my take-home final for the class I mentioned above... sad face. And yes, this means 1 was during an actual exam in a classroom. Embarrassing.)
High school GPA: 4.22
College GPA: 3.72
Grad school GPA: 3.4 (notice a trend?)
MAcc phone numbers in my phone: 21
People I will probably talk to after a year or so: 3
People I will be working with at E&Y: 1
Hours I worked as an ambassador: 300
International interviews performed: 29
Students I took on visits: 15
Amount by which my starting salary for E&Y was decreased: $2,500
Additional amount I was supposed to earn at E&Y for having my Master's: $2,500
Hours spent studying for the CPA exam so far: 263 hours
Sections of the CPA exam taken: 2 (of 4)
Amount paid for the CPA exam: $963 (not counting the $3,000 more I would have had to pay for my review materials if E&Y wasn't amazing)
Weeks I waited for my notice to schedule for the CPA exam: 9
Weeks my classmates waited: 2 (story of my life)
Presentations given: 10
Times I have cursed myself for taking Accounting for Mergers & Acquisitions: Every day of my life since beginning the class
Subway points accumulated: 68
Times I've cursed Taco Bell for being located so close to my apartment: countless
Lunches that turned into drinking at the Varsity Club: 2
Times I've been to Gateway this year: 3 horrible, horrible mistakes.
Lokos I've attempted to choke down: 2
Diet Cokes I've purchased in the Gerlach vending machine: Dear lord. Probably close to 150. Yiiikes.
Times jumping in Mirror Lake: 1
As of this fall, number of people in my immediate family who will have gone to Ohio State: 4. The only 4 that are college-aged. We are kind of sickening.
Others:
Most enjoyable class: governmental/not-for-profit accounting. I liked the subject (this is my second time taking it), I liked the professor, and I liked only having two projects.
Least enjoyable class: Accounting for Mergers & Acquisitions. God-awful. The professor is clearly just there for research. She's just... not good. The exams were horrible. Every class was an hour and 48 minutes of hell.
Worst class I know I'll be glad I took later: Financial Management 2. All sorts of awful things like hedging and derivatives and credit swaps. Ughhhh. This is also the class I took where I cried during an exam. But I also know I'm going to need to know this stuff for my job so... gross.
I'm sick of making this list. 05. 05 has pretty much been my motto for the entire MAcc program, so I guess that's fitting haha.
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