A Week of Epic Proportions

This past week, both my professional and personal life has been an absolute rollercoaster.

As said in THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, when your professional life goes well your personal life turns to shit. While Andy loses her best friend (Tracie Thoms, yay!) and boyfriend, I meanwhile had a raging fight with my roommate. The fight was really insignificant when taken as an individual event, but when you add the context of our relationship for the past six months, its really the crescendo, the point of no return.

So I won't be returning to our previous state of close friendship. I'm keeping my ears open to new apartments, but also changing my attitude towards her. I'm just going to distance myself slowly.... I can't be making any more 1am calls to Ryan, Lori and Jason in order to calm myself enough to go to sleep. And I'm pretty sure my friends are sick of my tirades.

I'm drawing on previous experiences like this where I turned to my other friends and exercise to pull me away from the toxic elements in my life and I'll be sure to do that again.

So on to the professional life. We basically had an exodus of both senior and asst-level people last week, which puts me in a really bad and a great position at the same time. The really bad part is that I'll have to train all these people and negotiate who of my pub friends to reccomend for the job. BUT the good part is that I'm the most senior assistant in the department, which means that I'll be the first one up for a promotion and the first to inherit books. It's a happy, happy day for me. I've been strategizing what I want to do in terms of asking for more work, so we shall see. Apparently 9 hours a day at work is not enough for me. But if its going to be over a hundred next week, I'll gladly SLEEP at Rock Center.

BUT there are bright sides to my personal life: Kelly and I are getting closer which I LOVE because she's fascinating to me and I adore her. Also, I met some fabulous bloggers through Dolly again and am totally psyched about finding two of those ladies because I think we could be friends outside of these little meetings.

My friend Courtney is coming on Thursday, so next weekend will be extremely busy. I'm TOTALLY psyched and can't wait to show her off at Harlem Book Fair next Saturday....alas, though, it is time to beat the heat on my quest to rollerblade from 181st street to battery park.