August 27, 2009

Today may have been a bit easier, especially since my excel and word actually were up and running. After numerous unrequited inquiries, Claire decided to take matters into her own hands, and give the IT assholes a call. (IT do what they do because they are good with technology, not people). As soon as she hung up the phone, this really nice guy called me and walked me through the steps to fix my computer. Now that wasn’t so hard, was it?

However, once I opened the contact list spread-sheet, I experienced a mini internal freak out. I’m still struggling with becoming accustomed to using a Mac, despite the fact that I’ve been toying with the idea of making my next computer a Macbook or something cute and savvy like that. Finally, I just decided to ask what the hell it was I was supposed to do, event though it had already been explained to me yesterday… whoops Claire seemed somewhat annoyed I think, but I know its better to ask then to sit there for an hour trying unsuccessfully to figure it out on my own. What I was supposed to do was to fix the spreadsheet because the previous intern listed the PR companies and products in the wrong columns. This I found somewhat reassuring, because it was only my second day afterall, and I was apparently not the only one who made mistakes.

Later in the afternoon, I emailed a fitness celebrity’s PR person asking her to verify a workout plan for the November 1st issue. There are two issues in November (intense!) My technical title would be “Research Intern”, so my duties will probably, aside from general bitch work, include fact checking and hopefully some writing.

Some of what I’ve been doing is organizing article information into respective folders and labeling them with the correct information, which I actually can’t stand. What’s sad about this is, I don’t even mind the mindless, busy-work… but unfortunately, my handwriting is PATHETIC haha. Why can’t I be like a normal girl, and have cutesy, bubbly handwriting?

So far I have met a few people, but I forget most of their names already, I am sooo bad with names. I’ll just have to go with the flow of it and listen to what they address one another.

I hope tomorrow is smoother…. I’m not so good with adjustments I guess. I would really like to do more fact checking, and just more work in general. The past couple days, I’ve felt like a huge waste of space. Claire is out of the cubicle and around the office about half the time that I’m there, so I’ve often been sitting there waiting for her to come back and either clarify something or assign me a new duty.

I’m somewhat worried that they think I’m a dope… But I’m trying to keep that article I read yesterday in mind, about positive thinking from the August issue Since 50% of happiness is supposedly attributed to nature, and the other half to how one is “nurtured”, I have the power to force myself to think positively. So, I’m going to concentrate what went right each day, instead of what went wrong, and focus on making each day more successful than the last.