Just Me and My "Friends"

Okay, to respond to your comment: My swimsuit is actually black, but the shorts and sandals are both pink. Oh and no, my legs do not dangle when I sit on a dime. :)

Last night was a night full of adventures. Well, just one really. My bedroom is located in the basement and the window is in a window well. The screen does not fully connect to the edge of the window and when it rains, spiders find sanctuary in my room. I am no fan of spiders; in fact they scare me to pieces. If you have seen The Covenant, this is repetitive, but this girl has a dream where she wakes up and finds a spider in her bed. Then there are multiple spiders, and then the spiders are covering her room (I am getting goose bumps just typing this). Then the spiders start to crawl under her skin – while watching this I felt like they were all over me. I have had that same dream multiple times (before and after the movie). My dad calls spiders my “friends” and makes fun of me whenever I ask him to come and kill one for me. Okay, long introduction to a short story. I see a spider in my room and decide to kill it. Here are my thoughts at the time:

“Okay, Carly, you can do this. Just get 5,000 tissues to protect yourself. All you have to do is pounce and squeeze the spider to kill it. Okay, here it goes. Oh no! The spider moved right before I got it! Now it is coming towards me, ready to kill me (my heart is beating very, very fast right about now). Grab the tissue and try again. Okay, got it that time. Make sure it is dead. It is. Run and put the tissue in a trash can far, far way. Now that the tissue is gone, squirm and shake all the remaining spiders off. Now check your bed for spiders, get in bad, and pull the covers tight so that none can get you. Carly, you are one childish girl.”

Ahh yes, the feeling of accomplishment.

We had an intern meeting this morning and talked about work for maybe 15% of the time. The rest we talked about World of Warcraft and how everyone likes to make fun of the interns. Snacks included are: Cheezits, Mint Milano Cookies, and Diet Coke (the latter two were at my request). I see Nichole right after the meeting and she asks me how it was. My reply, “We had Diet Coke and Mint Milano Cookies, my life is fulfilled.” Of course, that would be a very sad life if that were really true.

Random Fact: Spectrophotometer - an instrument for making photometric comparisons between parts of spectra. (Dictionary.com)

Here is a conversation I had with Josh, a guy from work:
Josh: What’s going on Carly?
Me: Oh just running this test.
Josh: Well, you better hurry if you are going to catch the running test.
Me: Thanks Josh, but I don’t think it will work. I have short legs.
Josh: Mitch will help. He’s a fast runner.
Mitch (Another guy, very tall, very built): What will I do?
Yeah, seems retarded now, but at the time it was funny.

First Thoughts

I am currently interning at a medical device company, hence the name, “Short Pink Intern”. It is here where I am constantly reminded of my height and how odd it is that I wear pink everyday. I am not that short, just shy of 5’2”, however, whenever I can’t reach anything, then I am bombarded with a bundle of short jokes. My favorites came very recently: My younger brother now only calls me “Lord Farquad” (the king from Shrek) and my friend recently told me, “You are so afraid of heights that you didn’t grow very tall.” Oddly enough, the best jokes come from my younger brother who happens to be 10 and shorter than me.

My favorite color is pink and has been for about 4 years now. I don’t really remember how it started; all I know is that now everything I own has to be pink (within reason, of course). I have been told that I am attracted to pink, like to north end of a magnet to the south end of another magnet. I cannot deny this, because after that comment was made, I immediately ran to something that was pink that I was in no need of; however, I still felt the need to get a closer look.

I am currently living with my dad and I feel sorry for him. He has to put of with me and everything that I make fun of him for. For example, there is his “cool” car – the station wagon that just screams “I am old and have no taste whatsoever!” Or the fact that he thinks that it is cool to wear socks with sandals; I don’t know much about fashion, but I do know that that combination is one to stay far, far away from.

I went for a walk around my building today because my mind had shut off. Usually about every afternoon I have to jump start my mind again. This is accomplished in one of three ways: 1. Drilling a hole in my head and pressing the “START” button (however, this plan fails because we have safety rules at work and drilling through your skull to restart your brain falls under one of the “DO NOT’s”). 2. Walking around the building – this restarts my brain, but the batteries run out a short time later. This can also fail when it is cloudy outside and raining, like it was today. 3. Diet Coke or simple caffeine. This has the longest-lasting effect, maybe because I am still not fully thinking of my work, but boy do I feel GREAT! If all three happen to fail, the only thing left to do is go around talking to people while eating chocolate taken off of Chad’s desk.