Unexpected happenings at work

This morning I, along with the rest of my colleagues, was informed that Lenora, the woman hired to be the Assistant Director of On-Campus Recruiting (OCR for those in the know), had resigned. Via email. And I'm the one with communication issues?

So it was a little unexpected because there was no indication that it was coming, although one of the career counselors said she wasn't surprised that it happened, but that it happened so quickly. I guess I felt the same way. Maybe after I found out at 6pm the day before the first day of interviews that she hadn't bothered to order tables and chairs for people to eat all her catered lunches at was the day that I knew she wasn't going to be a keeper. (Man, that was a terrible sentence!)

So anyway, we are again without an Assistant Director and none of us managers look forward to doing the work that person was supposed to be doing.

In other and happier news, I took a sick day today. No, I'm not happy that I'm sick; I'm just happy that I got to come home early, watch tv and observe some guy in a yellow duck suit power wash the paint off the building across the street that I could see from my reclining position on the sofa. All in all a fascinating way to spend the day. More fascinating than work at the moment. All we've been doing lately is printing resumes and stuffing folders with them.

OCR is not as crazy as everyone made it out to be. I have a lot to do and it takes a lot of time, but I'm getting it done and am only working 10 hour days! It'll get even more mundane as the number of interview schedules drops off. Yeah...that's my job at the moment. Who's envious?

Dinner Party

Here are some photos from the fabulous dinner party Irene and I hosted at our place last Monday night. Yes, those are real pumpkins holding our soup! It was a really great night and we had so much fun chatting and laughing, as girls will do. I think this should become a monthly thing, but without Irene it'll be much harder to get together. *sob*

Our menu:

• smoked salmon on toasted baguettes, cheese twists and roasted pumpkin seeds served with Apple Cobbler cocktails
• Orange pumpkin soup, courtesy of Irene
• a lovely salad, courtesy of Jenny Harder, a guest
• Quiche Lorraine, courtesy of moi
• various sweet treats, courtesy of Jenny Scully, Erika Vilalba and Jenny Harder

Don't you wish you could be invited to a dinner party at our house? If you're lucky you'll be invited soon!

Irene is off and running!

She's outta here folks! Tonight Irene got the news that the offering taken at church fulfilled her needs and she can go to Thailand! Any day she wants to! Isn't that incredible? God is awesome. This also means that I need to find a roommate pronto for my fabu apartment, so if you know anyone in NYC that needs a place, hook it up!