Thoughts about Louisiana

The consultant I worked closely with at my current company emailed me after he found out I will be going down to Louisiana in June for my new job at Schlumberger. Here's an excerpt of his email:

"Oh, you're gonna find Louisiana very interesting. Some places are remnants of old times, but the character of the people will make you crack up laughing...and they love a good party!! Also, the seafood!! Extraordinary!. Chances are you'll be working with some people I know as I started in oil and gas in S. Texas and Louisiana. Certainly will be an adventure, cause it is not NY! :)"

This makes me feel excited and curious to what it really will be like to live in the South. Guess only time will tell. I can't believe tomorrow is my last day with this company...after this, no more working in the city. Ah!

Things to do in my 20s

I heard about the Day Zero Project and decided to start my own list of goals. This site helps you start a list and keep track of which goals you've completed. Once you make an account, you can choose from making lists like 101 Goals in 1,001 days or 52 things in 52 weeks, but you can also customize your own.

I decided to make a list for things to do in my 20s. You can choose an end date to your list and mine is July 26, 2019 which is the day before I turn 30. Currently there are 66 things on this list that I want to do.

Some of the things on my list include:

Ride a hot air balloon

Learn to identify ten different constellations

Sing karaoke at a bar

Make amends with at least one ex-friend

Move into my own apartment

Have a traditional picnic in a park

Become a recognized regular somewhere

Host a dinner party

Watch 25 documentaries on topics I know nothing about

Watch a movie at a drive-in

Ask 20 friends to suggest one book, read them all

Keep a “My Day in Six Words” journal for a year

Donate my hair to Locks of Love

I only added the last one (donate my hair) so that I could check off at least one thing on my list to motivate myself to keep going. It says my list is 1% complete with 2625 days left. This is a fun way to make your life exciting and always have something to look forward to.

Help others (with caution)

Yesterday at work I had a really weird and embarrassing thing happen to me. But first here is a little background info about myself…whenever I get emails or fb event invites for 1 minute surveys I always try and do them because it really does take a minute and the more data the surveyor gets, the better!

So these days at the office, I help the front desk take phone calls because they are understaffed. And yesterday, sometime in the afternoon, I received a phone call from a friendly male who claimed to be a senior at UPenn conducting a survey on fashion for his advertising class. I didn’t hang up and agreed to answer his questions. At first the questions were normal, such as the basic info, age range, ethnicity, etc. Then he moved onto questions like on a scale of 1-10 how important is comfortability for clothing… but shortly after that the questions focused more towards lingerie and more personal questions.

I’ll give him credit for having good transition questions because at the end I really had no idea why I let myself stay on the phone for so long. The question right after the comfortability one was on a scale of 1-10 how important is feeling sexy…then asked how important is it to buy sexy lingerie…it was just getting weirder so I answered quickly to get the survey over with. Eventually I hung up because he started asking inappropriate things like seducing men and exactly what age range of men, single/divorced/married. What does this have to do with fashion and/or advertising?

After hanging up I couldn't believe the questions I got asked. Got to be careful with who I choose to interact with! I give people the benefit of the doubt but from now on I have to be wary there are people out there who can be a little craycray.