Updates

Things at work have been extremely exciting this week! I was asked to write the script for our newest promo video. It is a HUGE opportunity, especially considering I have only worked there one month, and I know a lot of other people there wanted to do it. So I have been working really hard and writing draft after draft after draft. It required a lot of research because before last month, I literally didn't even know what fiber optic cable was or how it worked. And now I am advertising it! Insanity. We went to a demo yesterday where a technician showed my department how to use our product and then showed us its competing technologies. As good as I thought my three fully developed scripts were (people like to have options so I did three similar ones, pretty much the same idea but variations on the focus) I kept feeling like a more creative aspect was missing.

Then this morning when I was sitting at my desk, it just HIT me. I just suddenly had a brilliantly creative idea, and immediately wrote a completely different script. My boss loved it, so now we have sent 2 options to the department that requested the video. One is my creative stroke of genius (haha) and the other is a blend of my 3 previous scripts. There isn't anything wrong with the non-creative one, I just really like the idea behind the one I wrote this morning better. Plus I feel like I do better writing dialogue than just straight information. And I know its very sorority-girl of me but there is also a tshirt design associated with the creative script and I would REALLY like to make tshirts. I can't help it - old habits die hard and this will be my first event-related tshirt-free year in a while.

In other news, Athan left this morning. He was here for a long time so it sucks that he left, but hopefully when he comes back on the 24th it will be for good! We went a ton of places when he was here too. Old Salem, Grandfather Mountain, Glenn Hilton Park (okay, so this is just a local place with a good frisbee golf course and trails, but hey), JJ's, the Moosehead in Charlotte...it was so much fun. Now its back to being just me and LuDoggie [and my "roommates" - aunt & uncle]. But not for long, because my family is coming down this weekend and staying for a week. It should be pretty crazy when everyone is here but I am looking forward to all the FREE FOOD. You never realize how expensive the grocery store is until you pay for your own food. Also sales tax here is 7%, which is like 2 %or 3% higher than what I was used to in VA.

Anways, here are some pictures from Grandfather Mountain that I took this week. It's really beautiful but windyyyy. Athan bought me some fudge at a store up there too but unfortunately crazy bandit Lucy somehow got it off my desk (HOW?!) and ate most of it. Luckily she has a digestive system similar to an industrial garbage disposal and didn't get sick. I think her body should be preserved for science. She is obviously much more evolved that your average beagle-mutt.

Grandfather mountain & hanging bridge. +5000 ft. elevation

Athan at the top of the mountain

Not only are you strongly ENCOURAGED to feed the bears, food is provided. Basically almost no fencing is involved.

Because of my love for my sorority, I called him the Phi Bear