Popping the Cherry

Ahhh...the original entry. Apologies in advance that this won't be the most stimulating post (nor blog, for that matter) since the hour is approaching 5am on a Thursday morning. Have been wanting to start one of these bloggy thangs for the past few weeks as I have found myself with many more leisure hours than should be legal after recently graduating from a grueling (time-wise rather than academic-wise), yet extremely worthwhile, one year MBA program here in Philly.

The past year has been a blur of lectures, presentations, happy hours, travels, excessive clowning around, more bottles of beer than necessary, and too much fun. Felt a lot like camp without the bunks, counselors, and mosquitoes. I daresay this blog will be, at least initially, a feeble attempt to recapture some of the memories from the last 12 months (probably through random references to happenings-past) and will most definitely result in reading material that induces coma in the average person. But I imagine, as with all things, I will move onto other topics...which will likely be equally as coma-inducing. Ah well...

Soooooooo...my life these days consists of:

• Trying to get the company, which I am starting with two classmates from the MBA program, up and running and FUNDED so we don't starve for the rest of the summer. It's going remarkably well for not having a freaking clue about what we're doing. There are companies that are actually interested in buying what we have to sell. Phenomenal. I've always had the entrepreneurial gene in me & it's finally being expressed, but how I wish I had made more mistakes to learn from in my earlier years when I was instead working in damned corporate America like a monkey.
• Riding on Philly's public transporation system, SEPTA, to get from the West Phila apartment I am subletting for the summer to Center City or any other part of the city that doesn't reek of urine and is void of trash-strewn sidewalks. Pain in the friggin' ass. Can't wait to move back toward civilization (read: East of 30th St. station) in Sept.
• Filling my calendar with various events in the city. Since the summer began, I've been to the Lynnard Skynnard concert @ the Mann (note: can mark "Hear 'Freebird' played live" off the to do list of life), Live 8 (a sea of people with swatches of sweet performances), and the Elton John/Patti LaBelle July 4th concert (less than stellar, but something to do). Planning to hit the Mann as much as possible this month--I believe the enjoyment of the harmonious strains of an orchestra while on a blanket under a night sky to be a slice of heaven. (Side note: I just heard what sounded like 3 gunshots outside--I need to get the hell outta here.)
• Acting like a college kid with the rest of my grad school buddies, a number of them unemployed, doing all of the above activities with them in addition to: watching flicks @ the Ritz, partaking of the occasional (well, more than occasional) frothy beverage, and whiling the nights away with 3 hour games of Trivial Pursuit at 2 in the morning.
• Anticipating my older sister giving birth to my first niece. She'll be a July baby! I am insanely excited at the thought of becoming an aunt.

Methinks it is time to get some shuteye. 10am meeting. Of my own scheduling. Why do I do such things to myself?