After a kind, lovely, eye-opening weekend in East Hampton (a first and most likely a last considering how JUDGED I felt... I mean come on people, if I can survive Spartanburg, SC debutatante balls, I should be able to survive the Hamptons. This says something), I have returned for my last two and a half weeks working in the New York Knicks public relations department. As the title of this post dictates, yesterday was probably the best Monday I have had all summer here. Why? Well, clips took a decent amount of time because we had to gather all of our clippings from the weekend and Monday to be distributed in the hard clips. Then, we had a nice two hour or so lull before escaping to one of the restaurants in Madison Square Garden for the first annual intern luncheon with President of MSG Sports Scott O'Neill. First we ate the free lunch, something I have come to embrace if not aspire to achieve on a daily basis, though this is probably the first free lunch I've had all summer. Then, Mr. O'Neill spoke to us for a while and answered questions about his journey to the top, why he ended up pursuing a career in sports and how he went about his education. I found the talk to be really beneficial because we were basically getting insider advice from the man who could be hiring us one day. I mean, not him particularly, but he is in the position of this franchise that makes decisions in every franchise, so his perspective is probably pertinent to every team/company. I especially appreciated his explanation of why one should work for a few years before going to graduate school after college. He explained that when you go to business school or law school or graduate school, you want real experiences from working to look back on and apply what you learn to and that if you go right from college, all you have is other information you've learned in the past. This scares me because the job market is less than viable and I was kind of banking on delaying the whole real world thing until after grad school/law school. However, at the same time, I kind of like the idea of working for a few years then going because, as Mr. O'Neill said, then you know that you are doing what you want/should be doing. I need to work at a law firm or in sports management or something before I decide to go through with law school. Otherwise, it could end up being a waste of time and money. Same with graduate school - I should probably try to work for a newspaper or broadcasting company and see if that's really what I want to do before going to journalism school. And the list goes on.
Anyway, after that nice luncheon (which may have been the best simply because it killed a solid two hours of our day... and the free food duh), I worked on a small project that my supervisor gave me. She had all of the major clips from the past season up until now in a folder and wanted to make sure they were all documents on the word document she had. So I went through the folder, article by article, and made sure that each one was on her list. There were actually quite a few of them that had not been documented, but these were all of the most recent ones. This project was great because it was time-consuming and required a lot of focus. It ended up taking until it was time for me to leave to monitor sports radio from my apartment so it was awesome. Then, after sports radio, Rachel/Rock (my college roommate) came into the city from her home in New Jersey and we went to a barbecue restaurant. Hushpuppies - finally. I love hushpuppies more than many things. They made me happy. They made me nauseous (well, something made me nauseous, sleeping was made harder by that), but they were delicious. And still are delicious! I had ordered a pork platter and the hushpuppies and it was so much food that I was able to put it all in a box and bring it to work today to eat. Woohoo two meals in one! GAH the Jew within has really revealed itself this summer. Well, I apologize for not updating as frequently, but this way, you have more substance to read. I'm going to see The Ugly Truth movie tonight for an exorbitant price, but that's ok it will (hopefully) be worth it. Then tomorrow my sweet Steve is coming in. My worry for now is getting these workouts in. I've been so good every week about making time, but as the end of the summer nears and I try to fit everything in, including my fair share of radio and my trips out of the city, it is getting harder to rationalize the need to exercise. I need to though. I will tonight. Maybe tomorrow too. Definitely Thursday. And then I guess I will Sunday if I can't get the third in tomorrow before Steve comes. Of all of the reasons why I wish I didn't start work until 9 am, the main one is that I would be able to get up and go to the gym before work every morning instead of have to fit it in at night. Then again, I don't think the NYU gym opens up until 8:30 anyway... I guess it would be cool enough to run outside at 730 though? Well... no need to fixate on the impossible. Right? I have a feeling I'll blodge again later today... I mean it's never a good sign when I'm running out of things to do before 10 am hits. Until then... adios.
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