Work, the Weekend, and Ish

My second and third days at MS went pretty well. I think of my supervisor as my surrogate father, showing me the ropes, lol. He's a pretty cool guy, along with the rest of the HR and L&D departments. I hope that he teaches me how to play golf sometime! He let meleave early on Thursday and Friday! So I took advantage of that on Thursday and went to the mall in White Plains, ie "The Westchester". A little annoyed that I had to pay for parking, but that's ok. So, my feet were hurting sooo bad (stupid Coach shoes). Therefore, I was insistent that I would be purchasing a new pair of shoes for my mismatched feet at Nordstrom. And boy, did I buy shoes. I ended up purchasing Stuart Weitzman pumps, full price. Said pumps were $250. I was a baller! I told myself I was worth it, and gave them my debit card. It's part of my new promise to myself, that I will purchase my shoes only from Nordstrom, and stop trying to buy the same sized shoes to be frugal. No no no, because I have to many foot probs, I need to invest in comfortable shoes.

Okay, okay, my pumps are not that comfortable, BUT they are sexy and high powered! Yay!

I really miss Yolanda and May. I wonder if I'll get to see them again.

I had an awesome weekend! On Saturday, after my weekly hair appt, I took the train to manhattan to meet up with Jamie and eat at the heavenly SushiSamba! OMG, I am so in love with it. The food was absolutely delicious.Next, we bought eyelashes at the Shu Uemura store in SoHo. We then decided to meet up with Patrick at the Italian festival! Tiramisu and fried Oreos, oh my! Then, we had more dessert, cuz we saw the rice pudding place. They only sell rice pudding, and it was tasty, despite the fact that I was full.

Then, Jamie and I headed over to Hoboken to meet up with Gaird, Katherine,Libby, Zach, and Liz. Libby was having her housewarming, and her place is gorgeous! We also partied it up in Hoboken, hehe. I stayed over at Liz's place, and she has a lovely apt too!

The next day, I fully intended to go to church, but I lost my car keys for a couple of hours. I was so sad, because I took a very early train to get back to New Haven in time for the 11:00 service :(

I bought a ticket to London a couple of days ago! Yay! I'm going in December, so watch out, Alisha in Europe!!!!

oh kelis

Yeah, so I've been watching VH1 Soul for like, 2 straight days. I'm obsessed. The song that they play like 20 times a day is a song called "Blindfold Me" by Kelis. And as much as I hated it the first 5 times, the damn thing is growing on me. To the point that I find myself singing the lyrics, "when he want it, he blindfolds me/then i get sexy on him, i get sexy on him". Whoa.

Fun With My Loves, New Job

Well, I haven't done a real post in a long while. But I do have lots to say, and I'm excited about it!!

The week before last, Kim, Andrew, Raj, and Raj's friend Navin made the trek up to New Haven to come see me! We ate at the famous Pepe's Pizza and chilled in Wooster Square. I got a lot of valuable advice and information from Navin. Raj also gave some good info on mutual funds, yay!

I started classes last week. I'm taking industrial relations and multicultural issues in the workplace right now. I think that i'm going to LOVE Multicultural Issues:)

I also had an amazing weekend! On Friday, I took the train to NYC to go salsa dancing with Kim and Andrew! Then, we met up with Navin and Raj and had dinner at Matador's. Navin says that they have the best tapas in the city! They were quite tasty, hehe. It was a good night, despite the train drama I had (see my post below).

On Saturday morning, I had an amazing hot stone massage. It just feels so good. The stones, when they're first rubbed against the body, are so very hot and smooth, but then you adjust to it. The lady gave me a fully body massage, something that I also had never had! She massaged me as I was on my stomach and back. And she massaged everything, I was so scared that I might get squeamish when she got to the inner thigh. I mean, it was basically everything except for private parts. I had never felt so pampered.

Afterwards, I went to Tara's I/O Party. The first years are pretty cool! I've also realized how much the program has grown on me. Yay.

Sunday, I went to the city to meet lovely Jamie! We ate tasty lunch, and then attempted to see the new hilary duff movie. However, we didn't realize that hilary duff's movie was soo bad that it was officially banned from manhattan. Poor child, with horse teeth.

We proceeded to go to Magnolia Bakery to get cupcakes and cherries jubilee/shortcake. We ended up meeting up with patrick too! So after eating our scrumptious desserts, we did some shopping, saw Marc Jacobs in the nude (it's for a fundraiser!). We also saw 2 drag queens. One had a 5:00 shadow, LOL. It was hilarious. It was so funny when I saw the second one. It was in a store, and I wasn't expecting *her* to be a *HE*. We also made homecoming plans, and we have the best idea ever. seriously. You all will poo your pants if you ever hear about it.

Today was my very first day at Morgan Stanley! I don't know, I think that I'm just a really optimistic, happy person. I always am excited, wherever I go. But honestly, Morgan Stanley is like adult workers' playland! I mean, yes, I got a TON of work to do on my first day, but the facilities, the people are so amazing that it's worth it. I would work 12 hour work days for it all. There's another AKA in the office, yay!!! Every person that I've met is so friendly and wonderful. The site has a cafeteria with Starbucks, Au Bon Pain, Sushi. There's fitness classes, including yoga and pilates every day. There's a concierge, dry cleaning, etc there. The place is absolutely amazing, and the company is so generous to all of its hard working employees. They were impressed about me going to W&M and getting my MA, too. I'm impressed by everyone's achievements, work ethic and personality. I'm really excited about it all, today was absolutely amazing! But it's funny, because I'm already at the top company and my dream company at the age of 22. Where else do I go in life???? LOL. Joking, I still have a LONG way to go. But I know that it's because I am favored, just as all of my friends are. We've all had soooo much success in our lives. And I believe that faithful servants are blessed, and you only reap what you sow. I use the abilities that have been given to me to the fullest, and it shows. I also have a lot of cheerleaders, and that helps! Yay for Amaka, Jamie, Kim, and Mimi!!!

I love my sappy posts. Haha.

thoughts

K, so you always hear about the girl who sexually harrassed. We always question what *she* did to bring this on herself. Maybe her scantily clad body, or her provocative body language.

Last night, I wore my miniskirt and a top, but made sure to cover up the top part with a jacket. People just want to see SKIN. They relish it. I felt like a street corner whore just from everything that was said to me. Or the smiles that people would give me.

But the worst was on the metro north train back from NYC. Here I was at 12:30 AM, taking a nap on the train. All of a sudden, my nostrils were invaded with the stench of smoke, and the seat next to me was occupied. I turn to look at the person. The person starts talking to me. I told him that all I wanted to do was sleep and I wasn't in the talking mood. He continues. He asks me questions about if I smoke and or drink (wtf?). And the usually pervy perp questions. I don't think that I would've been so freaked out if he wouldn't have been so persistent and if it wasn't so late at night. Finally, I moved and walked to another car in the train. And the nice conducter saved the day by giving him a sound talking to.

I guess that I'm just pissed because of the fact that women have to be forced to monitor what they wear, say, or do just so that we don't "send out the wrong message".

Just Thinking

You all know that I am hardcore Christian. I truly love Jesus with all of my heart, all of my soul, all of my mind, and all of my strength. I believe that you can look to one place and find the truth, the answers to your problems. HOWEVER, I am NOT the type of Christian to sit and judge people and be narrow minded.I think that people take advantage of that, and in turn attempt to judge me. But that's beside the point. I believe that to live up to the true meaning of being a Christian, one must cast away the human desire to judge others and look at other ppl's sins. We have to understand that in God's eyes, all sins are equal. Murder is equivalent to a white lie. There, I said it, and I really don't care if anyone gets upset. God's not going to say to you on judgement day, oh, you stole that piece of gum, but you didn't prostitute yourself (and then proceed to give you a pat on the back). Um, no. There's going to be hell to pay for either sin (crying, embarrassment, and pure shame).

Then, there's a lot of things that I don't agree with when it comes to fundamentalists/ traditionalists. Now I know why confused sheep and I will never be meant to be. He completely is against abortion! Yes, I think that abortion is wrong, but to a freakin extent! Ppl don't seem to understand that there can be exceptions to the rule. What if a woman has been raped? Why should she be forced to keep that child when looking into his/her face will remind her of that terrible trauma, perhaps even causing her more damage? Why should a woman be punished if medically, she has to have an abortion, because if she carried the baby through the full term, she would definitely risk both their lives? Next, I'm sure that he's going to say that EC is completely wrong. Or that birth control pills are sinful. Oh no, the worst: that sex is purely for procreation. Um, Song of Songs can cure you of that (I like to take it in the literal sense, hahaha). But most of all, the point is, that God gave us all free-will. A CHOICE. We choose to do the right or wrong thing. Just let people choose. Yes, in the end, I believe that ppl are predetermined to have eternal life, but in the meantime, STILL just let ppl choose.

Corporate America, here I come!!!!

So, the longings and desires of my heart, that I had expressed in my earlier entry...

Stuart sent ppl an email about an internship on Weds of last week. I promptly emailed my resume to the contact AN HOUR after the email was sent. By Friday, I had gotten the call for an interview. Mind you, this was my last day at NRDC. AHH, set for an interview before my last internship ended. And I had applied to only 5 internships, my top 5.

Anyways, so I studied studied studied for the weekend, bought a new suit at Jcrew (not for the interview, for others) and even made a portfolio, intense questions to ask, etc.

The bad.

Monday, I left at 7:30 AM to drive to my interview at 10:00 AM. It was raining, tons of traffic. At 9:15, I called to let them know that I would be HALF AN HOUR late.(and this drive should only take an hour, mind you). I was scared and thinking I was screwed. Luckily, everyone was understanding. However, the tardiness left me flustered. There I was, interviewing in the conference room a.k.a. interrogation room. One after another, 3 ppl, 3 hours. Then, I was told that I needed to come back the next day to see the big bosses. Yipes. No MD for me that Monday.

So the next day, I made sure to get there 1 hour, 15 minutes before interview time. I had my game face on, my new suit on, and I was ready! And I had my looong interviews again, filled out applications, and it was done. They had chosen my resume only, out of the ppl that applied. They actually told me this, and that they didn't want to interview anyone else.

Still, with my performance and tardiness on the first day, I was a bit iffy.

But, by Thursday, my new supervisor had called to congratulate me on being..... Human Resources Intern at MS:)

Yes ppl, top investment banking company (Fortune's 30th largest company and 10th on the 100 MBA Employers List), a place that ppl KILL to get into. I have done it, 1 month shy of turning 23! Soooo elated:)

I start on September 11th, and I can't wait!


And in other news, I became a woman this week too! Go me!