Pretty In Pink (even though we all thought it was the UGLIEST dress we ever saw)

Renee' and I went to see The Molly Ringwalds at The Varsity. I have to say that while there performances are always enjoyable, they have really come a long way since the last time I saw them. Its been a couple years and they have used them well. I liked their costumes better (especially pee-wee herman) and they seemed to have more fun together than they used to. All in all, both Renee' and I enjoyed the show.

The best moment of the evening was from the opening act. Lets just say that the lead singer of Lazy K learned a very valuable lesson tonight...if you are going to do a Michael Jackson dance on stage, make sure your pants will allow you to do it. If they will not allow you to do the dance, make sure that you are wearing underwear. Wardrobe misfunction??? We'll never know.

Treasure Hunt

The first week of my internship went well. I spent the week getting familiar with the company, how the audit department works and how the company is handling SOX. All in all, I spent the majority of the week sending emails to the audit intern in New Orleans just so that both of us could look busy when we couldn't handle reading the current audit workpapers any longer.

Both Pascagoula and Gautier have turned out to be (surpise, surprise) a bit slow. The highlight of my town experience so far has been the Treasure Hunt in Gautier. Treasure Hunt is like a Tuesday's Morning, only with clothes and cans of peas instead of 1,000 different varieties of cheese straw mixes. There were some interesting things there. There were some down right scary things (read cans of peas) there.

The week from Hell (but the fun hell)

Okay, So last week was my week from hell. It was the fun kinda hell though. I laughed more during that week than I have in a LONG time. I will probably never look at flowcharting without seeing Curtis getting drunk in a canoe with a beer he was hiding from Dana or see a clip from "The Ladies Man" without thinking of Robert Lay. And I still have that damn Aicha song stuck in my head. In case I haven't told you anything about that class, it is called Case Studies, but is really a class that focuses on presentation skills. I had 9 presentations due in 5 days. I worked nonstop from about 7 in the morning until around 11:30 at night. I'm still dreaming about powerpoint and hand gestures.

I made the move to Pascagoula on Saturday. I will be calling room 128 at the Suburban Lodge "home" for the next 3 months. So far I've visited both Biloxi and the mall in Mobile, both of which are about 30 minutes away.

Work starts tommorrow and I'm pretty sure my dreams will quickly turn from presentations to SOX (sarbanes-oxley is the legislation that came about after the fall of Enron and Worldcom and the scandles with Tyco and is the main focus of internal auditing this year). I'm looking forward to it but I am a bit nervous.

However, I plan on loosing myself in The Princess Bride (on AMC) in the meantime.

Men In Skirts

I went to see the movie Troy yesterday. It has been a long time since I've read Homer's Iliad, so I was fuzzy on the plot. This was nice because I found myself hoping the trogans would win and Achilles would come and live in Troy (happily ever after) and the mean king would give up and go home. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a war drama.

All I can say is Wow! Men in skirts!

Yea! Men in skirts!

Question

Something was brought to my attention today and I would like to get ya'lls opinion on it.

Do you think romance is dead? Some people believe that single women, when on a first date, have a bit of a chip on their shoulder. If their date shows up with flowers, takes them to a really nice restaurant and treats them like a queen for the night, they wonder what he wants in return.

I will argue that the women's movement has changed society to the point that women don't need a man in their life to make them complete. While this doesn't mean that they don't want a man in their life, they don't have the same ideals as they did before the women's movement. They can (and for the most part do) have a direction in life that does not include "earning their MRS. degree" after high school.

Do you think that it is women's change in attitude (self-sufficient, self-aware) or do you think men have a tendency to "push" a little harder thinking that today's women will give them something in return for flowers and a candlelight dinner?

Am I completely off target here? Is there something that I'm missing?

Ok, it works....whooo hooo

So, this is the first time i've blogged...obvious, i know...so bear with me. I'm pleasantly unemployeed at the moment. Good times, good times. I have less than 72 hours before my next class starts. It will last one hellish week (although i've been told it is a great class) and then I'm off to Pascagoula. Gautier to be exact, but since Pascagoula is the most recognizable city near Gautier and I'll actually be working in the big P, I'm going to call Pacagoula "home" this summer.

Enough for now, will write more later.

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Hello...anyone there?