Summer in the City

Well, another week in the big apple has passed and it's sad to think that I only have one more left. This week at the internship was craziness. We were preparing all week for this huge meeting on Friday with all the sales reps. This week I felt like I actually had some responsibility and was doing some IMPORTANT tasks. They had me in charge of hunting down the salesmen samples for a few days....keeping in contact with different members of the production team and hassling them about our samples. I also got to help set up the showroom and update the buyplan, which was cool, and I could tell my help was appreciated, especially Thursday night when Alyssa and I stayed until 8:30 to help put together the salesmen books!

Wednesday my Aunt, Tina, flew into town. Tina works for CK Underwear and basically hooked me up with this internship. Wednesday night I went out with her and 2 of her coworkers to this little Mexican place uptown where the food was amazing and so were the margaritas!! I had a big frozen peach one to wash down my steak fajitas. (Yum!)

Thursday night was also filled with great food. It was Leslie and Kim's last night in NYC so the gang went to Little Italy and had dinner. We stuffed ourselves and downed 3 bottles of Pinot Grigio and basically had a fantastic time.

And Saturday night I went out to dinner with Tina and 7 of her coworkers to a place called "China Grill". It was Chinese food, but VERY Americanized. It was a "family" dining style, where basically you order 2 or 3 things that come in HUGE portions and everyone splits it, like a mini buffet at your table. This is good if you want to try new things but don't want to order a whole dish of it. It was SO GOOD, I didn't want the food to end!!

I worked a few days this week, but today I worked and it was AWFUL. A summary of events:
1. Fire alarm went off during my first set of tables. There was no fire at all, just faulty wiring. It went off for over 30 minutes staight. The NYFD came (yay!), but my tables left. (boo!)
2. In some odd way the fire alarm going off triggered the AC vents to close and they couldn't open them back up without the alarm going off. Until they fixed it we had NO AIR CONDITIONING. It took them almost 5 hours to fix it. This resulted in the kitchen getting to over 90 degrees and the dining room not far behind, with the servers literally dripping in sweat at the few tables who actually stayed.
3. Some how there was confusion and instead of working a swing shift and getting off at 6ish, I ended up working a double (which I was NOT happy about) and not leaving til after 9:30---that's a 12 hour shift.
4. And, after all of the above, I only made $96. All Day.

So now, I just got out of the shower, and I'm going to bed. Tomorrow has to be better. I'm working at CK during the day then I have dinner plans with Pam and her mom and daughter, and afterwards we are going to see The Fantasticks. It should be fun and a good way to kick off my last week in NYC!

posted by Jessica @ 10:40 PM