oh man am I
My friend A is so awesome. I’m going to talk about her for awhile. I met her at my very first job out of college and I worked at this crappy telecommunications publishing company in washington DC. She started about 6 months after me and she was skinny and well dressed and polite so naturally I thought “jeez, what a bitch!” By the way, I’m famous for being way off mark on my first impressions. She become best friends with this Philipino girl M, and I was best friends with this girl M. (this initial thing gets hard sometimes.. ok, fine, my friend’s name was Michelle, who I still sort of keep in contact with). And I had a few other friends too who I was really close to. It was a fun place to work except the work SUCKED!
Anyway, we were on casual speaking terms despite huge idealogical differences (common theme with most of my friends). She was sort of brought up wealthy and priveledged. I’m a bit of a down home kinda gal. She hung a mirror on her cubicle wall and I thought that was way over the top. But my “good friends” ended up leaving and I ended up in this weird sexual harassmen thing and the company was a complete old boys club so of course they did nothing. And I had just gotten out of a bad relationship ….time lapse…was on the phone with my friend J…aww…feelin’ the love!… what was I talking about… I’m hammered.
Oh yeah, so we bonded in the last few months I was there, and she just always gave the best advice and said what I wanted to hear. she’s a great friend. she is the one I trust most about important matters like my career (though I can’t talk to her about my love life, because I’m too screwed up for her). Today, she told me that yes men get paid more than women and that’s because they negotiate! and women are like “oh sure ok, that’s fine. that’s not what I wanted but whatever.” So true… women have so much guilt and are sort of conditioned to make do with what they are given, which is a good trait, but not when it comes to salaries.
Why am I bringing up salaries, you ask? Because I had a rather heated discussion today with a company who may or may not want to hire me after I very firmly told them that they could kiss my ass if they didn’t give me what I wanted. I’m almost hoping they won’t give me what I want, because I also love my friend D at work. : ) Girlfriends…who woul’dve thought they’d be so fantastic. : )
Anyhoo… la la la la la… trashed off of 2 martinis… my head feels funny. I ordered a book from Amazon.com called “The Power of Now” . Yeah… I know…cheese city. But I need shit like this. I totally live in the past and the future and anytime but now (like fantasyland, my constant companion). I need to stop that shit and start embrassing the NOW.. yeah….
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