Negligence

Okay, so I said I was going to start posting last week, but I was a bit negligent. The weekend was awesome. It turns out I was invited to DC to watch the fireworks with my sister (she is a director in the speech writing office for one Mr Bush) on the south lawn of said Bush's residence. I would show you pictures, but my cousin is the one with the camera. I even got to eat Blue Bell Ice Cream at George's place. He was nice enough to have a few shipped up from Texas for me. I had a great time down in DC, I got to meet a lot of people, and I made it to several other barbecues.

Well, I also hoped to make a post or two from work (I got assigned a cube and a computer today) but it turns out that the system has an internal firewall so that we cannot access foreign email or information services such as blogger. Yesterday, the first day, was a bit... dry... to say the least. I did get some sleep in, though, after having gone to sleep at 2:30am on Sunday night. The bad news is the sleep came during the global head of operations' discussion about goodness only knows what... (I wouldn't; I was asleep). The CIO wasn't much better, but Ray McGuire, the co-head of Global IB was pretty dynamic, engaging, and made fools of enough people to make us all laugh. We're not quite to Michael Lewis' crowd's level, but one of the guys who was present in that fateful analyst class spoke to us (for those who don't recall/know the history of Wall Street--if you don't care, skip to the next paragraph--Solomon Brothers was a really famous bond house in the 80's where Liar's Poker took place, which merged in the early 90's with Smith Barney, which was later acquired by Citigroup--hence, I work for the old Solomon Smith Barney, although Citi had since dispensed with the mouthful to give us "Citi Markets and Banking." There is still a Global Private Wealth Management business run by Citi called Smith Barney, which has an office in Salt Lake and quite a global reach, but it's kind of a different beast than the old SSB).

Well, life is good out here. It's fun. I've been meeting a bajillion people, and am trying my best to remember names.

Oh, and my first sacrifice for the cause will come this week. Someone had the bright idea that we need one more day of training, and it can't wait till Monday, so I have training scheduled for Saturday, from 8:30 am till 5 pm. I'm in the upper level accounting class, so thank goodness, because if not I'd have to go on Sunday. Phew!