Posts Tagged 'Pursuant'
November 1, 2007
Yesterday, I took my first-ever sick day from work. Any job, really. I’ve missed school because I was sick, sure. Dozens of times, in fact. But, yesterday was the first time that I’d ever called in sick to a job.
No, no… I’m fine. Really. Thank you for your concern. I just had the remnants of a migraine left over from Tuesday night. All is well, though. It was a pretty nice day, actually. I wasn’t cripplingly sick. I was sick enough to not have been very productive at work, but not too sick to just lie unconscious all day. I watched some TV shows on my laptop and read a bit. All-in-all, one of the most relaxing sick days I can remember.
I might need to get sick more often.
Posted in Personal | Halloween | Headaches | Health | Pursuant | Silver Lining
April 25, 2007
Putting a man on the moon? Defeating terrorism? Getting phone support for AOL?
Try graduating from college.
With regard to my college education, it seems like every time I take two steps forward, the universe erupts. And then through the rubble, I take three steps back. The latest setback: finances.
Little did I know, but tuition at UTD does not use a base per-credit-hour pricing scheme. They instead charge by the semester, with a set semester price based on how many hours you take. The more hours you take in any given semester, the less each credit hour costs. For example, a semester of 4 classes costs $3,350, which comes out to about $837 per class, plus a few extra fees here and there. A semester of one (1) class, on the other hand, costs $1,200 plus those same fees. That’s almost a third more. My final bill for one (1) class comes out to $1,400 exactly. I paid $2,700 for 3 classes just this Spring. Those two extra classes were less than I’m paying for the one.
I had no idea. Had I known, I probably would have tried to knock out 12 hours this past semester as opposed to 9. It would have cost me $735 instead of $1,400. Yeah, that’s right. Half price.
Nuts.
I was planning on paying for tuition with my initial three-month bonus from work, which could be anywhere up to $1,000. Unfortunately, even if I do get straight A’s in my review, I’m still $400 shy. As luck (and God almighty) would have it, UTD lets you pay in installments. So, I only need to pay $700 up front, but I’ll still have to come up with $350 a month for the following two months. I realize that $1,400 is really nothing compared to most college tuitions, but considering that I was expecting to have a little cash left over after paying for my Summer class, this all adds up to equal a significant, long-reaching setback.
Thus begins the aptly named Summer of Ramen.
Posted in Personal | College | Finances | Pursuant | UTD
April 2, 2007
Today, April 2nd, marks many an anniversary for me. For starters, it’s exactly one year since I quit Starbucks. And, consequently, it’s exactly five years since I first started working at Starbucks. Seems like forever ago, but it’s only been 5 short years.
Today is also exactly three months since I started working here at Pursuant. To celebrate this momentous occasion, I thought I’d look back at what I’ve been listening to these past three months. Through the magic of technology (and the iTunes Play Count feature), we can go back and see exactly how many times I’ve listened to every song on my computer. Instead of listing every song that I’ve listened to, and how many times I’ve listened to it, I figured it’d be a little more “reader friendly” to just include the top 25.
So, as you can see, I have been on something of a piano kick lately. My top 12 songs are either solo piano, or piano-lead songs, and only six of these 25 aren’t “piano” songs. Number one, Tifa, is the song that I’m learning right now on the piano, so I’ve had it on the brain of late. Hence me listening to it almost a dozen times more than the number two. Obviously, I’m also quite a fan of Coldplay, Eisley, Mat Kearney, Keane, John Mayer, and Elton John. And Final Fantasy piano music.
Nerd in the strictest sense.
Posted in Personal | Anniversaries | Coldplay | Five For Fighting | iTunes | Keane | Music | Musical Addiction | Nobuo Uematsu | Piano | Pursuant | Starbucks
January 9, 2007
Yeah, that’s the VP’s stapler in Jello.
I love my job.
Posted in Personal | Jelly | Pictures | Pranks | Pursuant | The Office
January 4, 2007
So, I started my new job at Pursuant (formerly known as The Pursuant Group) on Tuesday. At the moment, I’m not exactly sure what I’m going to end up doing here. The past couple of days, though, I’ve been tagging along during meetings and video shoots and things of that nature, trying to get a handle on how things work around here.
Thoughts so far: The new office that they moved into the day I started is awesome. Very big, very unique, and 15 minutes from home. The people here are equally awesome. Very friendly, easy to get along with, etc. Unfortunately, though, I’m not used to getting up at 7:15 and being at work until 5:00 for several days in a row. My attempts to counter this by going to bed at 10:00 last night were unsuccessful.
I’m looking forward to having a little more consistent work, though. ‘Cause right now, I have a decent amount of down-time between tasks. Hence me writing on my blog.
American efficiency at it’s finest.
Posted in Personal | New Job | Pursuant | Work
