busy, busy, busy

Hello everyone.

It's been a long day. I woke up at 7:30, went to CDC disease detectives camp from 9am-4pm and then to work from 5pm-9:30pm. Now, I am eating dinner and thinking about working on government homework after posting this blog (which... may or may not get done tonight =D heh).

Disease camp was pretty fun. I met a whole bunch of new people today, who, by the way, are pretty awesome. There was one guy who was named after the brand name clothing line Armani Exchange, which I thought was pretty cool. And Dominique and Jennifer from school were there. I've never talked to Jennifer before, although I knew who she was, but we finally talked today and she was like, "yeah i know you.... everyone knows you!" I said, "What?!" Then she said, "nothing! =D". Weird. Getting down to the reason for the camp, we learned about how to crack a health case and how to interview people who have been exposed to a disease (which we did.. 40 of them for our little activity). I really am starting to think about majoring in epidemiology or the likes of public health. It's like forensics, but only the science part of it without the yucky social studies. How perfect.

We also had to fill out these "name game cards" where we put three interesting facts about ourselves and one or two "never have I ever..."'s. So here it goes.

Three "Interesting" Facts about Emily:
1. I love cilantro. Cilantro leaves, cilantro sauce, cilantro dressing, cilantro whatever -- the list goes on.
2. I conduct our high school marching band. Simple enough.
3. Crap. I forgot this one.

Never have I ever....
learned to roller skate, had a pet, or liked white chocolate

Work was better today than it was the first day. I can run fitting rooms better. But I messed up and tagged some tops at the wrong spot. My manager came back and told me I did them wrong but made my co-worker fix them. I learned how to fix it from her, but she did the rest. After work I made up for this little slip up by mopping the floors well. Anyways, the manager was pretty cool with me being retarded and happy about the floors, so life is good.

But honestly, I am so glad today is over. I felt like some kind of single mom who never finished high school and has to take on a 14 hour day to make a living (ok so honestly, this will never happen but you know what I mean in relating). I couldn't even begin to imagine how hard life must be for those people who balance 2 or more part time jobs to raise a family. I mean, everyday working from sun up to sun down and only earning minimum wage? That's harsh. I hope all of us work really hard and put all our dedication, motivation, and passion into what we love to do so we don't end up working at retail stores as minimum-wage sales associates for the rest of our lives.

But then... there are always those people who make you smile.
For example, when I got home tonight, I got a facebook message:

"this may be short but it needed to be said: EMILY PENG, love you! you RoCk! thanks for the update on stuff"
Kristen G.

:) What a sweetie. Love you K-Grav! Even though you don't read this... :-P

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And now to the night:
Vegging, chocolate-covered cherries, peaceful music (what the crap, where is the background music on this blog? don't think you've won, timmy! i've yet to get it back), and lots of gov reading. I love summer.

--Emily