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I got a cold last week, so I took a day off work and just slept the whole day. It was awesome. But I felt a bit lazy about actually going back to work. Thursday and Friday were pretty slow days for us interns, and then sure enough, checked my work schedule last night to find out I’ve been pulled off this client as of Wednesday.

I actually freaked out a little about that–I’m so worried about what happens if I don’t get a job offer out of this, since I’m planning on taking out some sizeable loans for school next year. I’ve calmed down since then, especially since I found out that several of the other interns are also unassigned, and also that we’re supposed to all get assigned somewhere for next week.

Anyway, I haven’t posted here since I’ve been sick, but I have been posting on my personal blog, and drawing and thinking a lot. Sometimes I just don’t think I can do accounting, especially not after my lazy weekends in Athens. The people I know who live in Athens for real, not just students, may not make tons of money, but they are arty and laid back, and just seem more relaxed. But then, I realized I’d probably get bored living like that anyway.

So, no real conclusion, except that today was a fairly good day at work. I sat quietly doing e-learnings for awhile, but then was given a task by my manager to tie some numbers. It was very frustrating, because none of the numbers were grouped correctly, and I didn’t have comparable breakdowns of the data to delve into.

I kind of just wanted to give up, and wait for the people who made the one set to fix it, but my manager kept pushing me to look into it more. I was frustrated, because I felt like we didn’t have enough information to solve the problem with, but in the end, I’m glad he made me do it, because I realized that we could at least find out MORE about the problem, which would help our counterparts in Europe fix the problem more easily.

Also, I got to go and talk to one of the client staff about it. My favorite part of this job is getting to know the client. All of them seem to hate us, so I love the challenge of trying to make friends with the people we work with there. To me, that is so much more satisfying than the actual accounting work, although I like to do that too, when it works out a little better!