The weekend was awesomely awesome. Friday night I just chilled in house and read one of the books I ordered from Amazon, "The Accidental Diva" by Tia Williams. It's a good book and I recommend it to any who digs contemporary African-American fiction like I do. I also got a fish dinner from the "Chicken-box Cafe" on North Tryon. As a Baltimorean ( Read more... )

Hello. I am nearing the close of my 3rd week here at B of A and in Charlotte and I can honestly say that I am happy. I like my job. I am doing pattern analysis/recognition (and eventually data trending) on Suspicious Transmittal Memos received from banking centers. I am trying to better understand the types of activities that they have found to ( Read more... )

So last week I met a whole bunch of new guys here in Charlotte on Friday and Saturday nights especially, as well as throughout the week. I got a lot of new phone numbers and had a lot of first conversations. Those first conversations are crucial for many reasons. First, I get a chance to assess the quality of the guy. Does he have a degree or ( Read more... )

So I was perusing the alumnae website of my middle/high school, Roland Park Country School, and I came across a funny thing. For contact purposes, they have listed us by class with everyone's name bearing a link to their e-mail address. In parentheses next to your current name is your maiden name. So my friends Stefanie Warns (who married ( Read more... )

Well, my weekend was a lot of fun. Jessica and I went to the after work buffet and ate some good wings and deviled eggs and BBQ. Then we went to Carlos’ apartment and hung out with him and his 10-month-old for an hour or so. Carson (the baby) is so fat and so cute! He actually does look like a real-live Cabbage Patch Kid. Then we went back to ( Read more... )

TGI(MF)F! Here I am at the end of week 1 here in Charlotte living at UNCC and working at Bank of America. I have nine more to go, and that will be the summer. This week has been large. I moved in on Sunday afternoon and then went straight to work on Monday, although Dozie advised against such a schedule. He was right, I was BLOWN. Plus I was ( Read more... )

... Now I'm hot, they all on me ( Read more... )

So updating my life...

Tina's wedding was beautiful! If you want to see pictures click hereMy birthday was off the chain! Amber and Myra threw me and Stephen a kick-ass birthday party at Amber's new house. Marcus, Nicole, Seanda, Amber, Myra, Chris, Ken, and Rashida came on out and participated in a night of drinking games with confederate flag ( Read more... )

Age I will be one week from now: 24 (on 05.24.05)
Number of degrees I now hold: 3... High School Diploma (is that a degree?), B.S. Mathematics, M.S. Civil Engineering (as of May 13, 2005 I am THE MASTER OF SCIENCE!!!)
Pounds I have lost since August 2003: 17 (oh hell yeah)
Pounds I have left to lose: 20 (I can do it!)
Number of times I have ( Read more... )

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