Venables Bell & Partners

this is me at my desk at the temp place! not too shabby, huh? they have this website where people in the company can post random things on it, sorta like craigslist where people put random information, concert tickets that they have extra, etc. anywho this is what this one dude posted about me:

Meet Our Newest Producer!

Technically she's working at the desk, but Jenn studied film at the University of Kentucky and moved out to California to begin her film career. She's interested in pre and post production and she has experience with Final Cut. I had the great pleasure of meeting Jenn when she saved my life (sent my fax) and when I heard that she wanted to go into film, I wanted to help connect her with people here at the agency. So please stop by and chat when you have a second because Jenn is awesome.

pretty awesome, huh? people here are super nice and friendly. i really like it! although, i would really like to get a chance to start doing some actual film stuff, producing and editing and all that jazz. they have departments like that here too, but they aren't hiring. oh well. it's been a nice week. i like enjoying coming to work. it's a nice change! right now i'm sitting here and drinking a beer while i'm writing this. this pizza and keg friday's is the coolest thing ever. the only downside about working in the city is the whole commute thing. i have to wake up at 6:30am in order to take a shower, eat breakfast, and get out the door to get on bart by 7:30am to get to work by 8:30am. and getting home takes about an hour... but i really don't mind because it's way better than waking up and going to Sodexo every morning at 9am!

this weekend should be fun. tory, steve, phil and myself are going to a san jose earthquakes vs. LA galaxy tomorrow at 1pm! it should be an intense game! they don't like each other at all! i'm not looking forward to sweating my face off though... ekkkk.. haha oh well. it's so weird how i'm so used to the cool weather, anytime it gets to be 72 or so degrees outside i'm like holy crap it's sooooo hot! i am definitely spoiled with the weather living out here!

i'm really ready for the weekend! i can't wait to sleep in even though i don't think we will be sleeping in tomorrow. tottenham plays at 6:30am or something close to that and i know tory wants to venture to the city tomorrow morning to watch it! sunday at least will be a nice sleep in day!

next friday i'll have to bring my camera and take random pics of this place because it is awessssome. such an awesome office. anywho, i hope you guys have a faaaaaabulous weekend!!

love and miss you all,
jenn

new temp job!

hey guys!!

so i just wanted to write a quick little post to let you know that i might not be updating for a while! i got another temp position, this time for THREE WEEKS!!! so that's exciting. it's for a pretty awesome PR firm in the city. below is the website if you want to check them out! the building is at an awesome location and it is surrounded by H&M, prada, coach, the north face, burberry and a bunch of other stores that i can't afford... but H&M is probably going to take most of my paycheck! ekkk! hahaha, today was my first day, i was just learning the ropes/training today from 1-5pm with this chick called Trisha. she was super nice and lives in oakland. she's been a receptionist there for about 2 years now and is just now moving up! she's going to be trying out a new position for the next three weeks, so i guess depending on how that goes and how i do... i guess we'll see if it turns into something more permanent! everyone was really nice and it was pretty laid back, so that was cool! i will even be able to wear jeans next friday which i am SO excited about! wahoooo! i think it will be a nice, fun experience. i'm not going to get my hopes up about anything happening. what's really cool/fun is that they have Keg and Pizza Friday's! this is exactly what it sounds like, they get a keg and like 25 pizzas for the whole office. i think i'm going to like it at this place! hahaha... today i answered phone and did some conference room scheduling. i think that will be my only issue. i got the transferring of the phone calls down pretty fast!

well, i just wanted to let you guys know! i hope you guys have an awesome weekend! tomorrow tory and i are waking up at like 4am to go watch tottenham play their season opener against Manchester United... grrr! it should be a great game and i know tory is beyond ecstatic for it! i'm pretty excited myself, it's been a while since we've been to the bar that early, hahaha. sunday i have to go to work for sodexo again to train the new chick, hopefully this will be my last day doing favors for them. i just want to get my 10 days of vacation time that jeff told me he would give me if i did this crap for them. hopefully he holds up his side of the bargain! we'll see... well, i'm gonna go do something else! have a great weekend!!!

love and miss you all,

jenn

www.venablesbell.com/

i quit!

heyyy everybody!

i hope y'all are doing good. i'm doing just fine. the temp job last thrusday and friday went great! it was so nice and refreshing to work around such nice people! it really was a nice change. they were all so great. they would always say "thank you" and "please" a billion times. one of the chicks was like "you can listen to your ipod if you want" i was completely blown away by how nice everyone is. it really gives me hope for working in a positive work environment one of these days! i did a lot of random busy work, but i didn't mind because i knew that i was actually helping them to accomplish something. unlike when i did busy work at sodexo, it was just pointless crap that never amounted to anything.

on that note, i quit sodexo. i decided that i would be much happier being unemployed rather than working for my boss for another year. i don't think i would've been able to handle it for another year and would've probably ended up walking out if i had tried. i think i deserve a positive work environment! i feel much better now too. i told him that i got another job, which isn't completely true... obviously.. haha. but now i think i'm going to have to quit getting my unemployment checks.. sooo that sorta sucks. i knew that if i didn't tell him that i got another job then he would try to get me to come back there to work and i didn't really feel like helping him out after all of the crap he put me through. he made me come back in this past weekend already for about 4 hours to sit around and wait for people to come in and sign contracts... about 5 people showed up. so stupid. i'm so glad that i won't have to work there anymore. i feel really sorry for the next person that takes that job, that's for sure!

tory's web mini-series www.copynpastry.com is a FINALIST at NYTV Festival in new freaking yoooooooorkkkk!!!!! http://www.nytvf.com/ there is the website for the event! i'm soooo excited for them!! can you believe it?! i can't wait to see what happens! i'll keep you guys updated! sooooo pumped!!!

tory and i had a nice weekend... we didn't do too much, but we had a great sunday! we decided to go to the city and spend the day. we walked in and out of little shops and pubs. it was so nice to spend the day with tory out in the city! we've only really done that when other people are in town so it was really nice to do it with just the two of us. we had such a great time! we got gelato...mmm it was sooo good! we hung around chinatown and north beach (where all of the nice italian restaurants are). we had lunch in chinatown. it was quite a treat! those servers are so funny. they say like 3 words to you the whole time you're there, but the food came super fast after we ordered and there was so much food! i packed up my leftovers and gave them to a homeless person that we saw outside. she said something to me and i panicked so i just said "fried rice!" and gave it to her... she looked at me funny. tory told me that she was probably trying to say thank you. i'm a fool... lol. later in the night we decided to go to the mall area and go see a movie! at the mall we got mrs. fields cookies.. ahh they were sooo good! so needless to say, we didn't eat real dinner until like 10:30pm when we got home! we saw "Dinner for Schmucks" it was probably one of the worst movies ever. i think it was made for like 14 year olds in mind because those were the only people laughing the whole time. we were glad when it was over. we had such a great day! it's so nice that san fran is only 20 mins away. i told tory it's like we can go on a mini-vacation! i also told him that we need to do that at least once every two months! we had too much fun!

well, i think i'm going to do some work, looking at craiglist and anywhere else i can for a job! i'll keep you guys updated! hope you all had a great weekend and have an even better week!

love and miss you all,

jenn

hum dee hum

hellllllo everyone!

everything with me is going fine. so i ended up having two interviews on friday of last week. the first one was stupid, they want me to sell stupid sports packages so i say no thanks. the second one was an interview with this company that does temporary and permanent job placement. it went fine. they already wanted me to work this upcoming thurs and friday for a real estate company as a receptionist. so, i guess i'm just going to start temping for now. that's fine with me. i think it will be nice to meet new people everyday and do something different every time. i'm going to keep applying for jobs on craigslist though. i need to figure out how i'm going to tell jeff that i'm not coming back...

this week has been fine, just helping the boys with stuff here and there. i made homemade lasagna on monday night, with spinach and zucchini... sorry i forgot to take pics! last night we had breakfast for dinner, eggs, bacon and biscuits! i forgot to take pics again... sorry! not too much is going on. hopefully the temp job tomorrow will go good. it's going to be weird getting up so early. i have to be there from 8-5pm... and it takes a while to get to the city in the morning, sooo i'll prob have to wake up around 6 or so to leave at 7. yiiiiikes. that will not be too much fun. oh well. well i'm gonna go apply for more jobs on-line. i'll let you know how the job goes! hope you all have a great weekend!

love and miss you all,

jenn